Taiyuan Dining is marked with wheaten food, just as the old Chinese saying ‘the most delicious wheaten food of the word is in China, the most delicious Chinese wheaten food is in Shanxi’. However, in Shanxi, the wheaten food in Taiyuan city is the most famous. The feature of the flavor of Taiyuan is salt, spicy and sour. The cooking style is marked with quick-fry, stir-fry, sauté, fry, stew after fry, steam and so on. If you have a travel in Taiyuan, Taiyuan dining should not be missed.
Local Cuisines
Tounao
Tounao is a kind of soup, described euphemistically as ‘eight treasure soup’. As one kind of particular Moslem snacks in Shanxi, Tounao has been handed down for more than 300 years by generations. The soup is mixed with three pieces of mutton, lotus roots and Chinese yam. It tastes mellow and has the tonic performance..jpg)
Yuci Guanchang
Guanchang is a kind of steamed snack with flour. Yuci Guanchang has two kinds of colors: red and white. The red one is made from pig blood and flour and the white one without pig blood. Guanchang seemes to be semitransparent. It tastes soft and elastic with sour or garlic juice.
Sliced Noodles
Sliced Noodles is named “Dao Xiao Mian” in Chinese. As the name suggested, it is a kind of noodle sliced by knife. The chef hold a particular shaped cooking knife in front of the big port. These noodles are almost of the same width and length with three edges. Add some vegetables and sauces on the top of noodles; you can enjoy the delicious noodles.
Yangcheng Rou Guan Rou
Rou Guan Rou means braised meet in port. Pork, beef or mutton is boiled with millet and kinds of seasonings in a special designed pot. The pot is designed with a small neck and large body, which keeps the natural taste of meat and make it soft and spicy.
Steamed Dumplilng
Steamed dumpling is a popular snack in Taiyuan. The mutton or beef stuffing added some kinds of seasonings is stuffed into wrapper, then steamed on the pot..jpg)
Food Street
Taiyuan Food Street is one of the most prosperous streets in Taiyuan. The street is hundreds of miles long and gathered architectures with the style of Ming and Qing Dynasty. Various restaurants could be found here, such as wine house, dumpling restaurants, Liangping shop etc. Bus No.104 can arrive the street.
Liushixiang Food Street as a new food street in Taiyuan, is worthy of being visited. All kinds of snacks gathers in the street.
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