Halal Food Guide: Lanzhou Night Market — Muslim Snacks and Local Streets
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Summary: Halal Food Guide: Lanzhou Night Market — Muslim Snacks and Local Streets is presented here as a firsthand travel account in clear English, beginning with this scene: On the 28th day of the fourth lunar month in 2019, I came to Lanzhou to see the famous Songmingyan Flower Festival (hua'er hui) and took the chance to explore the night markets. The account keeps its focus on Lanzhou Night Market, Halal Snacks, Gansu Food while preserving the names, places, food, and historical details from the Chinese source.
On the 28th day of the fourth lunar month in 2019, I came to Lanzhou to see the famous Songmingyan Flower Festival (hua'er hui) and took the chance to explore the night markets. I mainly ate at the Xizhan and Nanguan night markets.
Xizhan Night Market
Xizhan Night Market is located on the southern section of Jianlan Road at the Xizhan intersection in Lanzhou. It is not as famous as the Nanguan or Zhengning Road night markets, but it has a better vibe. It has not been affected by tourism and has no internet-famous shops; it is a purely authentic, local night market.
I started with a bowl of lamb offal soup (yangza tang), which was about ten times better than the one back home.
Then I had the Lanzhou specialty, milk egg fermented rice (niunai jidan laozao), which was sweet and delicious.
After that, I ate grilled lamb skewers. At a night market, it is best to choose a stall where they cut the meat and thread the skewers right in front of you.
The young man cutting the meat.
Nanguan Night Market
Nanguan Night Market opened in 2018. Because of its good location, it is very crowded, though not as internet-famous as Zhengning Road.
I drank hot winter fruit tea (re dongguo) and apricot skin tea (xingpi shui) here. Hot winter fruit tea is usually drunk in winter; it is made by steaming and boiling frozen pears.
I had tried apricot skin tea before in Zhangye; it is made from dried apricots and is very refreshing.
I ate the Linxia specialty, raft noodle sausage (fazi mianchang), which gets its name because it looks like a sheepskin raft.
The lamb soup served with it was truly delicious.
Then I bought a sugar oil cake (tangyou gao), which is usually sold for breakfast in Lanzhou; the sugar filling tasted great.
I bought fermented vegetable jelly noodles (jiangshui louyu) and fermented vegetable noodle soup (jiangshui saozi mian) at this stall.
Fermented vegetable broth (jiangshui) is made from celery and cabbage. It has a slightly sour taste and is very refreshing in the summer.
I had some sweet fermented wheat (tianbeizi) here, which is made from wheat.
The stir-fried lamb offal (chaobola) here looked delicious, but I was too full to try it.
Old Ma's Milk and Egg Fermented Rice (laoma niunai jidan laozao) on Zhengning Road.
I walked from Nanguan Night Market to Lanzhou's most famous Zhengning Road Night Market. While there, I grabbed a bowl of Old Ma's Milk and Egg Fermented Rice, which had the longest line.
Summary: Halal Food Guide: Lanzhou Night Market — Muslim Snacks and Local Streets is presented here as a firsthand travel account in clear English, beginning with this scene: On the 28th day of the fourth lunar month in 2019, I came to Lanzhou to see the famous Songmingyan Flower Festival (hua'er hui) and took the chance to explore the night markets. The account keeps its focus on Lanzhou Night Market, Halal Snacks, Gansu Food while preserving the names, places, food, and historical details from the Chinese source.
On the 28th day of the fourth lunar month in 2019, I came to Lanzhou to see the famous Songmingyan Flower Festival (hua'er hui) and took the chance to explore the night markets. I mainly ate at the Xizhan and Nanguan night markets.
Xizhan Night Market
Xizhan Night Market is located on the southern section of Jianlan Road at the Xizhan intersection in Lanzhou. It is not as famous as the Nanguan or Zhengning Road night markets, but it has a better vibe. It has not been affected by tourism and has no internet-famous shops; it is a purely authentic, local night market.
I started with a bowl of lamb offal soup (yangza tang), which was about ten times better than the one back home.
Then I had the Lanzhou specialty, milk egg fermented rice (niunai jidan laozao), which was sweet and delicious.
After that, I ate grilled lamb skewers. At a night market, it is best to choose a stall where they cut the meat and thread the skewers right in front of you.
The young man cutting the meat.
Nanguan Night Market
Nanguan Night Market opened in 2018. Because of its good location, it is very crowded, though not as internet-famous as Zhengning Road.
I drank hot winter fruit tea (re dongguo) and apricot skin tea (xingpi shui) here. Hot winter fruit tea is usually drunk in winter; it is made by steaming and boiling frozen pears.
I had tried apricot skin tea before in Zhangye; it is made from dried apricots and is very refreshing.
I ate the Linxia specialty, raft noodle sausage (fazi mianchang), which gets its name because it looks like a sheepskin raft.
The lamb soup served with it was truly delicious.
Then I bought a sugar oil cake (tangyou gao), which is usually sold for breakfast in Lanzhou; the sugar filling tasted great.
I bought fermented vegetable jelly noodles (jiangshui louyu) and fermented vegetable noodle soup (jiangshui saozi mian) at this stall.
Fermented vegetable broth (jiangshui) is made from celery and cabbage. It has a slightly sour taste and is very refreshing in the summer.
I had some sweet fermented wheat (tianbeizi) here, which is made from wheat.
The stir-fried lamb offal (chaobola) here looked delicious, but I was too full to try it.
Old Ma's Milk and Egg Fermented Rice (laoma niunai jidan laozao) on Zhengning Road.
I walked from Nanguan Night Market to Lanzhou's most famous Zhengning Road Night Market. While there, I grabbed a bowl of Old Ma's Milk and Egg Fermented Rice, which had the longest line.
