Local Specialty

Tianshui Jiangshui Noodles
In hot summer days, you will feel very cool and relaxed when you drink a bowl of Jiangshui Noodles soup, which is good to cure some diseases of hypertension, intestines and stomach. At the sight of milk-colored noodles, green vegetables and reddish pepper, your eyes will also be revived.

Its cooking way is very simple. After fermenting the boiled lettuce, celery, spring onion slices and so on for three days, you take the soup out of ceramic jars. Hereto a bowl of delicious Jiangshui noodles in the sour and a little bit hot soup is waiting for you.

Tianshui GuaGua
Strolling around streets in Tianshui, you will always be interested in a kind of specialty jokily named GuaGua. The process of making it is that the cook boils the buckwheat flour firstly, then he takes out the peel from water surface. The peel being preserved in a jar, after a while, the sliced peel seasoned with vinegar, salt, bean sauce, mustard and pepper can be presented to you.

It is said that 2,000 years ago, a king of Han dynasty who lived in Tianshui was very fond of the local specialty. He can not tolerant the three days duration without a meal of GuaGua. The food was enlisted as a kind of loyal food. Later on, a cook who once worked in the imperial palace escaped out and resided in Tianshui in the war disputes. He opened a food shop here to sell the GuaGua. Since then, the interesting specialty can be inherited form hand to hand.