Datong is mainly famous for its various wheaten food. Datong dishes are a little salty and oily. The most famous dishes are local flavor snacks, which are worthy to taste very much.
1) Hunyuanshu soybean
The soybean, whose scientific term is broad bean, is a kind of bean farm crop that implies various nourishment compositions, is one of the advantage farm crops of Hunyuan County.
2) Youzhagao
Take the Shuzi to become the yellow rice, then become the yellow rice to powder, the yellow rice cakes which are made of the yellow rice powder. The methods for eating have two kinds, one is plain cake, and the second is to fry cakes in oil.
3) Rinse mutton
Rinse mutton of Datong contain four greatest characteristics: The flavor is joss-stick, the meat is delicate, the quality is fresh, the shape is beautiful, and it is very famous in the whole country.
4) The day lily
The day lily is called the gold needle vegetables by the local people, belonging to the herbs of living many years, grow it once and income for many years.
5) You wheat
You wheat whose scientific term is oats mainly produce in the north of Shanxi and Inner Mongol. The history of planting You wheat has been more than 2,000 years. There are main Tuiwowo, Chuogejun, Tuichuangza, Chuoyuer and Yahala, you can eat them with heat or cool.
Restaurants
1) California Noodle House
Serves both Chinese and western fast food
Address: Daxi St., Datong
2) Jiulong Restaurant
One of the best restaurants in Datong--features steame