Mary Ma,
I would like to personally thank you for your having chosen Mr. Li - our driver in Datong and Reina - our tour guide in Datong who were helpful and knowledgable. They took great care of me and my wife on our just ended short tour to Datong. They had a strong sense of punctuality. They fully understood what we wanted was. We found them extremely polite, curteuous. They are an asset to your company. The historic Datong is beyond our expectation! The Yungang Grottoes and Yingxian Wooden Pagoda are world class cultural heritage. It is a shame that the publicity of Datong is so limited. If not introduced by your tour company, Datong would never have been included in our China trip this time. Thanks! I will introduce Datong to my colleagues and friends future in f. Keep in touch!
Margaret and Robert
“Dining in Datong” Datong Dish is the representative of Jinbei dishes. The dish has heavy oil and color, a little salt. Local staple is mainly noodles and other food made of flour. In addition to the commonly seen Shanxi Noodles, various local snacks may offer you a different experience of taste.
Local Cuisine
Rabbit head
The locals in Datong has a long history to eat rabbit head. Its meat is plump, tender and smooth. Red oil Rabbit and Hot Rabbit head is suitable for enthusiast of hot taste. Datong Laoma Rabbit head shop is noted for the speciality and Shuaifu Street is a famous rabbit head street. Every day it attract a lot of parasites.
Guangling Toufu Curd
Toufu Curd is common in most of the places, however, Guangling Toufu Curd has a distinctive flavor. With a history of 100 years, Guangling Toufu Curd is made of the certain well water and superior soybean with unique seasonings such as salt, fennel, pepper, as well as ginger. After a series procession, the cate is completed. It features that salty, fragrant, chewy and indefectible. Toufu Curd has Salty curd and Smoked curd.
Yellow Cake
A homely deli in Datong. With glutinous millet flour as material, knead the flour into shiver then steam. After steam, knead it again smearing with gingili oil to prevent the scarfskin from drying and cracking. Divided it into pieces, taking with the puree. It is chewy, soft, fragrant and appetitive.
Buckwheat Getuo
Buckwheat Getuo is also named Cat Ear, just because its shape like ear of the cat. It is made of buckwheat, after boiled pour juice such as egg, lily flower, agaric or mutton and pork, a long lasting after take. Buckwheat has good curative effect on diabetic and hypertension sufferer.
Datong Hotpot
Datong Hotpot is noted for its fragrant, tender, fresh and nice shape in the nationwide. Cook put the mutton slice in the plate, and you just need to swill them in the boiled chaffy dish then turn over several times. Dip with sesame soy, capsicum oil, sauce, balm. Monosodium glutamate, caraway, dried shrimps, sweet garlic and assist with Yungang beer, it is full of aroma.
Pea Noodles
Knead pea flour, flour or You flour together, then roll or press or chop it into all kinds of shapes. After boiled, pour juice mixed with egg, bean curd, lily flower, agaric or meat powder. The taste makes you watering.
Sheep chop suey—vermicelli soup
The dish is made up of jemmy, hoof, heart, liver, haggis, intestines, and blood of sheep, so it is named Sheep chop suey. Wash them clean, boil and cut up, assisting with shallot, capsicum, salt, etc. Mix yam vermicelli into the soup, the admixture of meat and maigre making the soup fresh and delicious. Besides, it has the function to lustrate chilliness, warm stomach, etc.
Datong Bean Noodles
Datong teems with yam, in addition direct edible, they are used to processing it into powder. Datong Bean Noodles could be available all the year round. Season with salty soup, sauce, capsicum oil, vinegar, balm, mustard, shallot flower, assisting with cucumber thread, radish thread, caraway, etc. It has very cool taste, as a ideal dish in summer.
Yingzhou Cattle Waist
It is not a real cattle waist just a kind of fried cake in the shape of cattle waist with the flour and sugar as the main material. Cattle Waist was tributed to Emperor Guangxu and Queen mother Cixi, falling under high reputation. Cixi once viewed it as the real cattle waist.
