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Local food：
Datong dishes can represent the salt flavor with using a lot soy sauce of the northern Shanxi food. Although Datong dishes do not belong to any regional cuisine, it proves excellent and exceptional on the combination of the strong points of every regional cuisine. Walking around in Datong, the variety of hotels are the most common things standing aside the streets. So are the train station and Yungang accompanying with more restaurants serving home-made dishes.
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Guangling Dried Bean Curd
Guangling dried bean curd is the best choice to serve the cold dishes before the main banquet begins, featuring chewy, fragrant and spiced flavor. It is roughly divided into smoked and salt. The salt versions can be made either dried bean curd and dried bean jelly.
Yellow Rice Cake
As the soft, chewy taste and fragrant smell, yellow rice cake which is a commonplace home-made food has been a very important snack in Datong that is cooked every day.
Buckwheat Lumps
There are many means to eat buck wheat, and the finest way is to made buckwheat a lot of lumps to cook. After broil them down, serve the thick vegetarian gravy made of eggs, needle mushrooms and auriculas or thick meat gravy upon lumps. It entices people both unique taste and fragrance.
Hot Pot
Hot pot in Datong wins nation-wide reputation as much as Sichuan hot pot by serving fresh dishes. When eat it, scald thin slices of lamb in boiling water and turn the meat a few times until done to enjoy, with dipping in hot pot sauce mixed with sesame paste, chill oil, sesame oil and coriander. For those who are bored with meat, cabbage potato flour noodle are optional for your choice. The odor of the delicacy may be a trigger for your appetite.
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