Friend, have you ever been to Qinghai?

The mountains are green, the sea is blue, the clouds are blooming on the mountains, and the distant Qinghai is coming to you with pastoral songs. There are girls grazing in Qinghai, and they all have sweet wishes, and all the men who struggle there have the direction of victory.

I love Qinghai, which is located on the roof of the world. This yellow river valley is my heart's desire. In spring and summer, I am intoxicated by the rape fields like waves. In the boundless wilderness, I can see the original ecological scenery of the sky and the grass and the cattle and sheep. The dreamy Qinghai Lake is embedded in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. In the evening, sitting on a chair by the lake, blowing a small wind and looking at this endless lake, the whole person is relaxed at that moment. When you have had enough rest, go to a small restaurant next to you, order a small row of sweet and sour rice, cold day lily, steamed yellow croaker, order a bottle of highland barley wine, and chat with three or two friends.

When it comes to Qinghai Lake, besides its fascinating scenery, we have to mention the yellow croaker growing in the lake. Yellow croaker is famous for its freshness, tenderness and delicious taste. However, the number of yellow croaker has dropped sharply due to a large number of human fishing. In the past few years, the lake has been closed to fishing. Because the yellow croaker only grows two or two pieces of meat a year and has a lot of thorns, it needs enough patience to eat it. I remember when I was a child, my father often bought yellow croaker, and I lived in the village when I was a child. I slowly swayed to the spring with a small basin and scissors, washed a dozen fish in an afternoon, took them home and stewed them in aluminum pot. My mother cooked two dishes and a soup, steamed rice, and waited for dinner. My brother and I were always in a hurry and were often caught by fishbones. Two people ran to the kitchen to pick up the vinegar pot like a game. The swim bladder of Huangyu is really delicious, because it is small and can cook more than a dozen pieces in one pot, so there will be more swim bladders, and my father and mother are reluctant to eat them for me and my brother. This is the most intimate taste in my memory. Family relationships can often be reflected in a dining table. My family has a high demand for food. My mother makes great noodles, cold dishes and soup. My father is suitable for handling all kinds of seafood and meat. I am so satisfied with the food at home that I miss my parents' skills very much when I go to college.

Of course, there are many delicious foods worth mentioning in Qinghai. When you arrive in Xining, come to a bowl of noodles with steaming sour soup in the morning, and I can arrange it for you by the way the next day. Those who like beef offal come to eat beef offal, those who like sheep offal eat mutton offal, and they are accompanied by prickly heat. Break them into small pieces and run in the soup to wait for them to soften. Mmm ~ It's delicious. In Qinghai, I dare not clap my chest to guarantee that the quality of beef and mutton is absolutely ok. The beef and mutton here is not cheaper than that in the metropolis. Most of the cattle and sheep grow up eating grass and run all over the mountains every day. The fat thighs are simply delicious on earth. I like mutton in Qinghai very much. The smell of mutton is very weak, and I can't stop eating it because I didn't like mutton very much since I was a child. Of course, I have to eat whole sheep and kebabs. Boiled mutton with clear water requires high quality of meat, because my uncle has his own farm, so if you want to eat it, you can choose sheep ribs and boil them on the spot. The sheep's neck, sheep's head and sheep's hoof are smoked with fire, and the meat on the sheep's legs is used for kebabs. What's more, we haven't told you yet. People in Qinghai usually use it to fill the blood sausage and cook it in a pot. When the pot is boiled and fished out, it will be split in two before even the chopping board. Adults can't wait to taste it. It's so cool to eat meat. We like go on road trip, all kinds of grass beaches and Shan Ye, which are good places for us to play. We rent a wok, kill two chickens and add a sheep. Here it is. That's right, that's the fun of our whole day.

Girls are the cutest creatures. What is necessary for shopping? Yes, of course it's milk tea, but in Qinghai, we drink sweet fermented milk tea, which is really delicious. I call it by my real name. No one can refuse its temptation. I don't accept any refutation here. I have been drinking it since I was a child. Sweet candied fruit is made of naked oats, distiller's yeast, etc. When I was a child, I heard an old man shouting to sell sweet candied fruit in a deep alley. I rushed out of the house with five dollars and a basin. The old man only scooped a small bowl of sweet candied fruit and put it in the basin, and then added soup. In fact, soup is the essence. Every time I was young, I used it. When I grow up, there are few so pure candied fruits, and it will become an improved version of candied fruit milk tea, which is still delicious. Tired of shopping, the first choice for girls' lunch is mala Tang. Pick a basket of vegetables, and then ask for a large portion of stuffed skin, as well as stem skin, rice skin and rolled skin. Sour and hot can really stimulate taste buds, relieve fatigue, and shopping will not be tired all afternoon.

Students are a huge group. We may eat the milk and egg mash cooked by our mother or grandmother for breakfast. The sweetness and warmth will make us go to bed after studying early at school, which is really too comfortable. There will be more choices at noon. Do you know that firecrackers are edible except friends in Qinghai? Fireworks are a kind of pasta with national characteristics. Lamian Noodles takes no soup after cooking, cuts it into short strips with a knife, pours in the ingredients fried with vermicelli, minced beef, green pepper, cucumber slices and other dishes, and then adds seasonings to stir-fry until it is tasty. After cooking, the noodles are really fragrant, and the practice is somewhat similar to that of fried noodles. The noodles are long and short first, then cooked and fried first, and the noodles and vegetables are mixed together. When you eat them, you will feel the pleasure of firecrackers, and the burning feeling will make you want to stop. In Qinghai area, firecrackers noodles are deeply loved by all ethnic groups, which are beneficial to the kidney, removing heat and relieving cough. Similar pasta and dry mix are a kind of noodles mixed in the northwest, and dry pull is also a kind of noodles mixed. The difference between dry pull and dry mix is that it is dried in a plate and mixed in a big bowl. Dry mix will be drier than dry pull, but it will be accompanied by a bowl of sour soup. You can add small cold dishes, beef or eggs to eat noodles in Qinghai. The student party won't have any difficulty in choosing. You can eat noodles in a different way every week. On the way back to school, I had a bottle of Qinghai old yogurt with my friends. It was simply beautiful.

Qinghai old yogurt and candied fruit have equal status in my heart. As a Qinghai person, it is impossible to give up these things. Of course, we must add a kang mutton pot, onions, lamb chops, sheep intestines, potato (called potato in Qinghai), green pepper, cumin, ginger, black pepper and garlic, which are all essential. The pot used in the Kang Yang pot is aluminum pot. After a long kang, the skin of meat and potato is crisp and shiny with golden oil. It's delicious.

There are various ways to make potato, which can be said to bring its value into full play in Qinghai. Of course, mutton chops can also be replaced with ribs, Tujia chicken, pork belly and steak, but potato must be there, which is the protagonist. At our dinner table, people love potato far more than meat. It is our favorite food in aluminum pot. In addition to the mutton pot, there are fried potato, fried potato, which can be put in the rice, and shredded potato with cold sauce. In my mother's hand, a new dish, three pieces of gold and silver, has been created, that is, the potato is washed and cut into filaments, then fried in an oil pan until golden, served with mother's secret ingredients, and sprinkled with coriander. This dish is simple and popular, and relatives and friends will definitely empty the plate within ten minutes when they come home.

like a mother? Young? Women need it from time to time? Playing with partners (in Qinghai dialect, it means a small gathering between women, usually in someone's home), mothers' activities are playing mahjong, and after that, they make dumplings (Qinghai characteristics). They are made of yellow bean, which is mushy, and they need to be constantly added with water in the process of making. They are always stirred in the pot with a rolling pin to ensure its taste. After cooking, they have a strong flavor of bean powder, and the side dishes are shredded cucumber, shredded carrot and leek. There are some meat left, but cold dishes are essential, and they are basically eaten on the plate. A big iron spoon is stirred, Chili oil is put on, a lot of oil is needed, a lot of vinegar is poured on it, a big spoon of leeks is spicy, and various side dishes are put on the side, which can be said to be perfect. Mothers are still very demanding about eating. Moreover, everyone can't finish eating a large pot. When they go home, everyone should take a plate back, no matter who eats it, it won't be wasted. There must be a party between women and men. On weekends, I take my wife and children to eat a bowl of steaming noodles and drink a bowl of sour soup, and then walk home slowly. Of course, on my way home, I will always be called by my old friends to play mahjong, fry a few hard dishes at night, and open two bottles of highland barley wine. This is the essence of real food. Even if you get drunk, you won't feel a headache when you get up the next morning. Qinghai people eat highland barley noodles and drink highland barley wine, just as Inner Mongolia people like to drink Dawusu. In the season of highland barley harvest, there are many small poles carrying baskets to sell highland barley in the streets. This kind of highland barley is generally treated and rubbed with its skin. The skin of highland barley is very prick, so don't try it without calluses. After cleaning the skin, put it in a large pot and sprinkle some salt to stir fry. Barley is sold by two, and the difference between one and two is only about eight to ten yuan.

Friend, have you ever experienced Qinghai local hotpot? It's a copper pot, and a circle around the pot is full of ingredients. It's neatly arranged, including radish skin, old tofu, potato pieces, beef slices, mutton slices, pork belly slices, vermicelli, sauerkraut and meatballs. When it's full, you can definitely satisfy it. When you eat almost the same, you can drink a little soup, which is mixed with that fragrant taste. Although there is a lot of meat, I guarantee that it is absolutely fragrant. After eating this original pot, you can eat whatever you want. Moreover, the earthen hot pot has an advantage that it can be made in the wild, because we will like the landscape and grassland very much, and we will often go out to go on road trip, and we will also bring a copper pot. Before we leave, we will arrange the ingredients in the pot, gather around when we are tired of singing and dancing, find some dry branches and put them in the bottom of the pot, pour in pure water, and light the fire, so that we can eat this original ecological taste as soon as the pot is opened. Do you yearn for this kind of life? Children will also bring their own tents, hammocks and the like. It won't be boring all day, and you won't be given a chance to sit and brush your mobile phone. Well, Qinghai will taste a little more Sichuan, and Sichuan's hot pot tastes good, but the feature here is that a cake will be added to snacks. This is a thin pancake. The origin of the name is also very interesting. In the past, oil was very precious, and everyone had ways to save oil. Housewives in Qinghai, in order to save oil when baking cakes, picked up a small oil pot and baked cakes along the edge of the pot, because at that time they were all big pots in the countryside, and this action was like a dog peeing on the wall, hence the name? Dog-watered urine cake

This is the soul of kneading wheat flour, scalding it with boiling water, spreading it with pepper powder, salt and dog-watered urine? Bean powder? Pour a small amount of rapeseed, roll it into long rolls, cut it into small doses, and roll it thin to make pancakes. This can definitely make people quickly experience the unique customs of Qinghai.

Deep in my memory, I still have the impression that my grandfather pinched the grass noodles for me, a kind of coarse grain noodles, which tasted a little stiff and dark brown in color. I scooped half a bowl of noodles in a bowl, added some sugar, poured boiling water into it and kneaded it into a ball by hand, and it tasted good. This is what I remember most about the taste of being with my grandfather. I remember when I was a child, I was always reluctant to eat this. Grandpa always wanted me to eat it with him. I was willing to talk with him about the conditions. I ate grass noodles with him and asked him to cook milk tea for me. The milk tea cooked by grandpa is very strong and has a slight salty taste. Because, Qinghai's milk tea is really made from that milk and tea, but they are all exquisite. Tea is that kind of brick tea, and milk is fresh milk that doesn't stay overnight. Many people in rural areas raise cattle, so the milk source is really super good. When the milk tea boils away, it will thicken the salt, add a little ghee, and filter out the tea residue after melting. Salty milk tea is also the taste of my time with my grandfather. It's been ten years since grandpa left, and I've never eaten grass noodles and drunk pure Qinghai milk tea again. I don't want to ruin the taste of my time with my grandfather. It is sweet and happy, and it is the taste of childhood in my memory.

It's also a problem what friends from other places can bring back when they come to Qinghai. The first choice is beef jerky. Although it doesn't look very good, if you know the goods, you will buy good yak jerky, which has really good nutritional value. Shuijing Lane is the most popular street here, and that street has been there since I can remember. It has special snacks, souvenirs and specialties. Because there are many Tibetan and Hui compatriots in Qinghai, the ethnic characteristics of this street are very strong. When you want to go back, you can take a lot of things back, such as dried yak meat, butter tea, sheep whip, bullwhip, deer whip, black wolfberry, saffron, Kunlun snow chrysanthemum, cordyceps sinensis, Tibetan shawl, fur, Tibetan silver jewelry, jade, dried cheese, and there will be goat's milk, if you can accept the taste of goat's milk. These are all very good choices.

Every place has its own characteristics. I hope you can come to Qinghai to feel the enthusiasm of the Qinghai people, taste the Qinghai cuisine, see the rape fields in Qinghai, see the Qinghai Lake as far as the eye can see, take a walk in the sky ~ ~ Chaka Salt Lake, take a small train in the salt lake, and the breeze blows, which is absolutely cured. You haven't been to Heima River to feel the sky here, and you haven't seen the magical Daotang River. How can you stop? Come on, come on, I'll wait for you in Qinghai, I'll wait for you in this rape field, or I'll look for you, but no matter how far I go, I love my home in Qinghai, the clear, ancient and beautiful Three Rivers, and I'll crawl silently at my feet ...