The Golden City Eight-Treasure Melon Carving is a traditional food carving art of the people in Lanzhou. It involves carving patterns on the melon rind using interlocking knife techniques, scooping out the flesh, and using the hollowed-out melon as a serving vessel filled with ingredients such as white fungus, rock sugar, white sugar, osmanthus, as well as canned fruits like pineapple, oranges, red cherries, lychees, and waxberries. The carved melon designs are exquisitely delicate and translucent, while the fillings are cool…
Vigorous and robust growth, exceptionally high yielding, tender in quality, and excellent storage and transport durability. (Lanzhou)…
Fried rice noodles in lard are made by stir-frying dried noodles in seasoned lard. The noodles are a refreshing summer dish that can satisfy hunger and thirst while cooling down and dispelling the heat. During the winter and spring months, hot steaming fried rice noodles in lard are even more fitting. These noodles are a delicious treat suitable for all seasons. In the past, the fried rice noodles in lard from Zhu Family Temple on Shanggou and Chenghuang Temple in Lanzhou were known for their finest flavor. First, seasoned lard is heated in a flat iron pan...
It has good head-forming ability, with an average head weight of over 3.0 kg. The cylindrical heads have minimal fiber and excellent quality. (Lanzhou)…
Tangwang Hand-grabbed Lamb gets its name from Tangwangchuan in the Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture. This area has a traditional dish called “Pinghuo Hand-grabbed Lamb,” a unique ethnic cuisine introduced to China and developed by the Sarta Central and West Asian ethnic groups who migrated eastward. Wang Yuyuan, an inheritor of the “Tangwang Hand-grabbed” tradition, came to Lanzhou in 1978 to run his business, and...
Lanzhou Clear Beef Soup Noodles, commonly known as "beef pulled noodles," are the most famous local delicacy and the most distinctive economical fast food in Lanzhou. The origins of Lanzhou beef noodles date back to the Guangxu era, when they were first created by Hui elder Ma Baozi. Over the past century, these noodles have earned a stellar reputation across Lanzhou for their tender meat, flavorful broth, and exquisitely crafted noodles...
Maquan Village, Dongchuan Township: specialty dates…
Huazhaizi Township: Dongguo Pears are quite famous.…
Agan Town: Known for its relatively famous coarse pottery...
Gansu is the homeland of peaches, with a peach-growing history of over 3,000 years. Currently, there are more than 200 varieties grown in the province, but the Lanzhou Honey Peach stands out as the finest. Among them are the June Peach, Vermilion Simple Peach, Flat-top Hairy Peach, Semi-drought Peach, Late Water Peach, Flat Peach, Yellow-flesh Peach, East-is-Red Peach, White Powder Peach, Feicheng Peach, Flower Peach, and a total of 184…
Lily is a perennial herbaceous plant cultivated in various parts of China, but the artificially grown Lanzhou Lily from Lanzhou is the most renowned. What sets Lanzhou Lily apart is its jade-like pure white color, large size, sweet taste, and tender, succulent texture. It is rich in protein, carbohydrates, mineral salts, and pectin, with a sugar content even higher than that of the famous southern Yixing lily and Longya lily, while containing very little coarse fiber.
Lanzhou Soft Pear, in Lanzhou — a city acclaimed as the "Fruit and Melon Capital" — stands out among pears for its unique flavor. The fruit is nearly round, with an average weight of about 125 grams. It ripens after the Start of Winter solar term, featuring a yellowish-green hue with hints of red. Its skin is relatively thick, and the flesh is hard with a sour and astringent taste.
Legend has it that over 1,300 years ago, Wei Zheng’s mother, who was the mother of a Tang Dynasty prime minister, suffered from an illness that caused her to cough incessantly. She wanted to seek medical treatment but feared the bitterness of medicine. Wei Zheng, who was filial from a young age and knew his mother loved eating pears, asked his servants to boil pear juice together with powdered herbs to make a thick paste. The mixture was sweet and mellow in taste, and his mother recovered not long after consuming it. Lanzhou Hot Winter Fruit originates from the legend of Wei’s mother and her pear paste remedy. The winter fruit pear...
After the Qingming Festival, it becomes the season when people in Lanzhou commonly make sweet fermented grains, a traditional snack in Lanzhou also known as fermented wine grains. There are two varieties: one made from oats and the other from highland barley, an ingredient unique to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. The preparation methods for both are largely similar. For oats, they are placed in a sack or a woven winnowing basket and repeatedly rubbed to remove the outer husk; for highland barley, the fine husk is first cleaned off before the grain is boiled in a pot until about 80% cooked. It is then taken out to dry on a flat surface. Depending on the quantity, a measured amount of distiller’s yeast is mixed in evenly, after which the mixture is placed in a ceramic basin and covered tightly to ferment either on a warm heated kang (a traditional heated brick bed) or near a stove. In two or three days, when a fragrant wine aroma emerges, it is ready. When eaten, it has a rich, mellow wine flavor, hence the name “sweet fermented grains.”
Ash Bean Pudding is a unique dish made from brownish peas. The process involves washing round peas, simmering them in an iron pot until half-cooked, then transferring them to a clay pot with water and adding seasonings such as edible salt and red dates. It is gently cooked into a thick porridge-like consistency and served with white sugar, giving it a distinctive flavor that is beloved by both young and old. Out-of-town visitors can try it at the northern side of the middle section of Zhangye Road in Lanzhou...
The Seven Mile River Lily is a specialty of Qilihe District in Lanzhou City, Gansu Province. Known as the "Hometown of Lilies," Qilihe District has a lily cultivation area of 42,800 mu, forming a large-scale industrial chain. Significant achievements have also been made in extending the lily industry chain and developing deep-processed products, including lily nutritional powder, nutritional cereal, lily fruit…
Black Melon Seeds Lanzhou black melon seeds are hailed as “Lanzhou Big Slices” and are a famous specialty of Lanzhou. Renowned for their large size, thin skin, flat shape, loose kernel, thick flesh, glossy black color, long-lasting fragrance, and excellent quality, they are one of China’s traditional export commodities. They were awarded the “Honorary Certificate” for black melon seed production and export by the Ministry of Foreign Trade in 1983...
Seed melon is a low-sugar variety of melon and a distinctive agricultural product with strong regional characteristics. Its shape is similar to that of a watermelon but smaller, and its seeds are the popular large flat melon seeds. Seed melon is a health food that moistens the lungs and warms the stomach. The *Compendium of Materia Medica* states: “The nature and flavor of seed melon are sweet”; the *Authentic Materia Medica* notes: “The flesh juice of seed melon can moisten the lungs, relieve heart...”
Lanzhou Big-Tail Sheep Breed Description Origin and Distribution: Primarily found in Lanzhou City and its suburbs. It is said that during the Tongzhi era of the Qing Dynasty (1862–1875 AD), several Tong sheep were introduced from Tongzhou (present-day Dali County, Shaanxi Province) and crossbred with local Lanzhou sheep (Mongolian sheep). Through long-term artificial selection and breeding, the...
When the sweltering heat and humidity of July envelope the southern regions, let us share the cool bounty brought by Lanzhou’s plateau summer vegetables. These high-quality vegetables are grown in the region’s high-altitude areas, taking advantage of the cool summers, abundant sunshine, and large diurnal temperature variations characteristic of the northwest plateau. In recent years, thanks to dedicated support from both production and sales governments…