A cup of nourishing eight-treasure tea, and a bowl of spicy boiling Lamian Noodles, three or five friends sit together and chat while tasting delicious food. It is normal to sit for two or three hours. This is the beginning of Ningxia people's slow life. Especially in the early morning of Wuzhong, the ramen restaurant is crowded with people, not only for breakfast, but also for social chat. We first went to the famous stone chop suey, and then went to the ramen restaurant to feel it.
Muslim food is a very special food in China. Because there are some different dietary taboos and pay attention to it, Muslim restaurants in the Han Dynasty generally have plaques with the word Muslim written on them. Ningxia is the largest Hui community in China. General restaurants are halal restaurants that follow Islamic regulations, and there is no special explanation. Han tourists should remember not to mention pork. If you want to drink and smoke, you'd better ask the store if it's allowed.
This is my first visit to Ningxia. I didn't expect the food in Ningxia to be a pleasant surprise. Xinjiang cuisine belongs to the northwest, wild and wild, with a primitive and simple delicacy. The food in Ningxia is particularly exquisite, even a little fresh and artistic. Even a small noodle restaurant is as refreshing and beautiful as a cafe. And the dishes in the hotel are all on the table like flowers.
Tan sheep in Yanchi, Ningxia eat all kinds of precious herbs and drink water from saline-alkali land, which is recommended by China gourmets as the best quality mutton. Before this trip, I always thought that the roast whole lamb I had eaten in Xinjiang was the best mutton I had ever eaten. However, the taste of Tan sheep in Ningxia is really tender than that in Xinjiang. The lamb chops for the royal banquet will melt at the entrance and have no taste at all. Even my friend who doesn't touch mutton ate a whole piece. Roasted whole sheep on Tengger Singh grassland is fun to eat with the same cake as roast duck.
Unlike mutton in other places, mutton in Ningxia can be eaten not only hot but also cold. Sheep head meat is delicious, too. According to the chef of the Yellow Crane Tower in Tongfu Hotel, the sheep's eye is reserved for VIPs at the Huizhou banquet. At first, everyone was a little afraid to eat sheep's eyes, sheep's brains and sheep's tongues. Once they get up the courage, they can't stop chopsticks. Sheep neck is delicious, too.
Instant-boiled mutton must go to Delonglou, which is a time-honored brand deeply loved by Yinchuan people. Needless to say, mutton is fresh and tender, and all kinds of side dishes are also exquisite. A piece of fungus and a plate of kelp are all placed like works of art, and each table has a special impulse to take pictures. His noodles are also very chic, all dyed with vegetable juice, and red, yellow, green and purple are very beautiful. The important thing is that more people order set meals and the mutton is full.
"Fish" and "sheep" constitute the "fresh" in Chinese characters. When you enjoy delicious mutton, you can't miss the delicious fish. The Yellow River carp, the big fish head in Husha Lake and the whole fish feast in Tengger Golden Sand Island are not precious fish species, and there is no fancy technology, but the fish in Ningxia are really delicious.
Finally, we must go back to spaghetti. Oil fragrance is a traditional Muslim pastry that I have always liked, and so is prickly heat. This time, I ate a new kind of cake containing vetiver grass. Seriously, it's a little unacceptable, too much like Chinese medicine.