When it comes to food in Lanzhou, most people will certainly come up with "Lanzhou Ramen". It, along with Sha Xian snacks and cassoulet rice, has supported half of China's food and beverage industry! Lanzhou ramen as the country's largest mysterious organization, it makes Lanzhou famous all over the country, but if you think that Lanzhou only ramen that would be a big mistake!
Only if you take a trip to Lanzhou yourself will you realize you're out of your depth!
When you come to Lanzhou, you must taste a bowl of original beef noodles. When you go to Lanzhou and eat the local beef noodles, you will realize that you have eaten all the previous ramen noodles in vain ....
1. Lanzhou only has beef noodles, not beef ramen!
Lanzhou really does not have "Lanzhou ramen", Lanzhou only beef noodles, but in Lanzhou, but all called beef ramen are not authentic, called authentic beef ramen is simply fraud! So when you get to Lanzhou, don't be silly and say the wrong thing!
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2. There is no beef in beef noodles!
You went to Lanzhou for the first time, excitedly went to the store and ordered a bowl of beef noodles, when the noodles on the table only to realize that there is no beef in the original noodles! If you want to eat more than 3 diced meat from a bowl of noodles, lol, almost impossible! If you want beef, you need to order a single plate for an additional fee!
But what's rare is that prices are whooshing up, yet the price of a bowl of noodles in Lanzhou is still 7 yuan, and the price of one or two pieces of beef is the same, which is very good. In short, when you come to Lanzhou for beef noodles, the focus is still on the noodles.
3. There is more than one kind of noodle!
When you eat Lanzhou ramen in big cities, there are only two kinds of noodles: ramen and knife-shaved noodles. When you go to Lanzhou, you will find that there are so many different kinds of noodles! Generally speaking, beef noodles have big wide, two wide, leek leaf, wheat flute, fine noodles, two fine, three fine, fine, hairy fine and so on.
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The elderly and children like to order the hairy fine. The most commonly ordered noodles are thin noodles and two thin: thin noodles are the most common and most ordered, and girls love to order them. Erxiao is about the thickness of a large sweater needle and is chewy, so young men love it. Of course, if you stay in Lanzhou for a long time, you can try a few more varieties!
4. Eating noodles this way is authentic!
Lanzhou people eat beef noodles, men and women, young and old, everyone a big bowl, the boys also like "double plus" (add meat, add eggs). Especially those who are not in the main street of the beef noodle restaurant, people like to carry a big bowl, squatting in the road on the curb, full of noodles, "suction" sound, in a while on the wind swept away the clouds do not meet, and even the soup are drinking a little bit left, and then wiped his head full of sweat, the bowl to the table and threw it on the table, on the way to work or school to go.
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Lanzhou beef noodle is supposed to be the early morning meal for people in Lanzhou, so most beef noodle restaurants open at 6:30 a.m. and close at 2 p.m. at noon. If a beef noodle restaurant is still open at night, it must not be run by Lanzhou locals.
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The Best Beef Noodles in Lanzhou
In no particular order
Walking down the streets of Lanzhou, there are beef noodle stores everywhere, so which store is the authentic one? Miaogouyan, Bai Laoqi, Gomule, Bai Jianqiang, etc. are all good. Of course, there is also the now-hyped Ma Zilu, Ma Yubu.
1. Mougouyan Old Beef Noodles
One of the best beef noodle restaurants in Lanzhou, but this place is a little off the beaten path. This noodle is very strong, the soup is very thick and delicious, are pure beef soup, the real price can be seen. Its beef tendon is also very recommended, usually go to the mill along the ditch to eat beef noodles will ask for a meat. Relatively speaking, the meat is almost as good as Gomule. The morning crowd, be careful to go late to eat ah ~
Address: Xijin East Road mill ditch along the 46 (near the south of the river)
2.吾穆勒蓬灰牛肉面
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吾穆勒牛肉面的好吃在于它的牛肉。 His family's beef is very flavorful, beef, beef key are 80 pounds, the store can be free vacuum packaging package. The flavor is very pure, the material is also enough, the red oil on the top will not let people eat with the feeling of tired mouth, the noodles are more powerful and delicious!
Address: Anning District, Beibinhe West Road, No. 2168 (near the Yellow River Waterfront Yiyuan Huanghe Building)
3. Tongue tip beef noodle
Business is very hot a noodle store, 24 hours a day, often in the middle of the night there are a lot of people over to eat. The layout of the store is very local cultural characteristics, the walls are hung with Lanzhou dialect interpretation, very interesting. The price is affordable and cost-effective.
Address: Wuchuanxia Plaza, No. 800 Jinchang South Road, Chengguan District, Lanzhou
4. Anpao Beef Noodle
This ramen restaurant is very large, with three floors, and the popularity is very strong, and you can often see a very long queue waiting for a place. The beef noodles are truly clean, red and green. Lanzhou locals come here in the morning to eat the noodles, and the soup is the freshest in the morning. In addition to the signature beef noodles, other recommendations include beef in sauce and radish soup.
Address: Chengguan District, North Binhe Middle Road, No. 756 (opposite Longyuan)
5. Bai Laoqi Peng gray beef noodles
This beef noodles, although wooden Ma Zilu and other big names famous, but objectively speaking, the noodles are still good. Bai Laoqi Beef Noodle is Lanzhou locals love to eat hidden deep authentic beef noodle, is the best beef noodle in the area of Jinchengguan, but foreign tourists may not be too easy to find, so diners are basically locals in the neighborhood.
Address: Jinchengguan, Qilihe District, Lanzhou
Besides the nationally acclaimed beef noodles, Lanzhou has countless other delicacies to offer, including stir-fried noodle slices and cold noodles, cassoulet and hoisin sheep's feet. Lanzhou's Yellow River honeydew melon and white orchid melon are juicy and sweet, the local "soft pear" has a unique flavor, and the hot winter fruit is the local winter drink, so you can't miss it.
Specialties
1. Stuffed Pi
Stuffed Pi is one of the unique flavorful snacks of the Hui people, which is tasty and refreshing. Economical, both vegetables and rice. In the hot summer, if you can eat a plate of stuffed leather, suddenly feel cool and refreshing, appetite.
2. Milk and egg mash
Milk and egg mash is made with milk, eggs, mash cooked together, the flavor is smooth and soft, sweet and sour. This kind of mash is rich in nutrients, easy to digest and absorb, digestive and appetite function, is the most "close to the perfect food". It Lanzhou Zhengning Road, a major feature of the old Ma's line is particularly long, you can go to taste it.
3. Hand-held mutton and stewed mutton hand-held mutton has been hundreds of years of production history, eat hand-held mutton feeling quite a big mouth to eat meat sense of bravado. High-quality hand-grasped mutton meat rotten without stink, tender meat. In the Northwest, cassoulet is as popular as hand-grasped mutton, and hand-grasped is a bit more juicy.
4. Sanbutai
Sanbutai, also known as cover bowl. Every hot summer, drink gaiwan tea than eating watermelon to quench their thirst. In winter, the Hui people get up in the morning, sit around the fireplace, bake a few buns, or eat some deep-fried noodle cake, always "scrape" a few compost cups of gaiwan tea. In Gansu, most people prefer "three bubble Taiwan" medicinal tea drink.
5. Water surface
Water surface is a kind of noodle with soup made of water. Its flavor is sour, spicy, fragrant, unique, the water contains a variety of beneficial enzymes, can clear the heat, improve appetite, for the summer delicacy. When you go to Lanzhou in summer, you can taste the slurry water in many restaurants in the city.
6. Sweet Spirits
Sweet Spirits
Sweet Spirits is a bit of wine flavor, Lanzhou has a saying: "Sweet Spirits is sweet, the old man and doll saliva swallow, a bowl of two bowls can be appetizing, three bowls of four bowls of top meal". The light sweet flavor is both summer and delicious.
6. apricot skin water
Skin water tastes more like sour plum soup, just not as sour as sour plum soup, the flavor is lighter, eat kebabs when you order a cup of this, spicy and refreshing!
Snack Street
Lanzhou has two famous snack street, specializing in Lanzhou and foreign all kinds of flavor snacks, this can be called "western food paradise.
1. Zhengning Road Snacks Night Market
The night market occupies a street, which is bustling with people and customers. You can order all kinds of snacks and enjoy them on the open-air seats.
2. Popular Lane Food Street
Lanzhou's Popular Lane is considered a paradise for foodies, and the path is not wide, but there are many famous foods on both sides. There are a number of prestigious restaurants in Lanzhou, such as "Mazilu Beef Noodle", "Gray Bean King", "Ru Ji Barbecue", "Jincheng Fried Noodle" and so on. The restaurant is a great example of the kind of food you can find in the city.
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3. Farmer's Lane
Farmer's Lane is another food street in Lanzhou, and unlike Popular Lane, the restaurants here are larger and higher grade. If you want to eat both snacks and Lanzhou authentic meals, go to Farmer's Lane. Farmer's Lane pavilion to be larger, there are operating Long cuisine, Shaanxi cuisine, Sichuan cuisine, Xinjiang cuisine and other northwest flavor of the restaurant a lot to choose from, there will be a satisfactory one.
After reading this, is it not a step closer to Lanzhou? Find a time to have an authentic Lanzhou beef noodle once!