Xining Food and Restaurants

A unique feature of snacks in Xining is that they are given names after the surname of their initiator. In Xining, some fancier restaurants serve varieties of 'plateau flavor', such as Feng'er Liji (a round lamb tenderloin), Danbai Chongcao Ji (a medicine cuisine made of chicken, Chinese caterpillar fungus and eggs), Jinyu Facai (pork wrapped in flabelliform nostoc and shaped as a goldfish) among others.
Recommended local restaurants: Muslim Da Ximen Restaurant Specialties (120 Changjiang Lu), Zhongfayuan Restaurant (1 Shulin Xian, Dongguan Dajie) and Xiao Yuanmen Restaurant (190 Dongguan Dajie).