【Tianshui Guagua】Tianshui Guagua is a famous traditional snack in the Tianshui area, originating from the Western Han Dynasty. The production technique uses buckwheat and related crops as raw materials, utilizing Tianshui's mild climate, water quality resources, and local seasonings to create a traditional snack that is a handmade folk skill. It is served with fine salt, vinegar, chili oil, garlic paste, mustard, sesame sauce, and other condiments, offering a unique taste known for its fragrance, spiciness, tenderness, and softness. Tianshui Guagua has a long history and is favored by locals and tourists from both within and outside the province, earning the title of "the best food in Qinzhou."

【Tianshui Jiu Die】Tianshui Jiu Die mainly consists of locally grown vegetables such as carrots, spinach, and mung bean sprouts, combined with pig ears, beef tongue, and liver slices. The ingredients for Tianshui Jiu Die emphasize color, aroma, and flavor. Color: The red, white, and green ingredients of shredded carrots, mung bean sprouts, and green spinach are as bright as the Italian flag; Aroma: Authentic Tianshui Jiu Die is also served with braised pig ears, pig liver, and cooked shredded meat; Flavor: The taste of Tianshui Jiu Die is brought out by shredded scallions and fresh ginger, using cooked sesame oil or rapeseed oil. Tianshui Jiu Die has a bright color and a slightly sour taste, making this cold dish not only loved by the people of Tianshui but also praised by anyone who has tasted it from outside the area.

【Tianshui Mixed Dish】Tianshui Mixed Dish is one of the famous traditional snacks in the Tianshui area. It is made with various ingredients such as eggs and pork belly. During preparation, the egg whites and yolks are mixed and made into thin pancakes. The pork belly is chopped, mixed with salt, flour, and Sichuan pepper, and then pressed between two layers of thin egg pancakes and steamed until cooked, then cut into strips to make the "夹板肉" (pressed meat). Using the pressed meat as the main ingredient, it is combined with meatballs, crispy skin strips, wood ear mushrooms, chicken broth, chopped scallions, and cilantro. This dish combines meat and vegetables, is not greasy, and has a delicious flavor.

【Tianshui Eight Bowls】The "Eight Bowls" is a must-have dish on the dining table of Tianshui people during the New Year. The traditional Tianshui "Eight Bowls" refers to eight types of steamed dishes served in bowls, consisting of four meat and four vegetable dishes, emphasizing rich ingredients, pure flavors, and clear broth, often prepared using techniques such as stewing, boiling, braising, frying, and steaming. "Four Plates," "Six Gentlemen," "Eight Bowls," and "Thirteen Flowers" not only carry the traditional flavors remembered by the people of Tianshui but also represent the inheritance of local intangible cultural heritage.

【Jiangshui Noodles】This is a type of noodle soup commonly eaten in the Northwest during the summer. Noodle shops in Tianshui city, rural homestays in scenic areas, and ordinary households often serve Jiangshui noodles. Especially popular is the soup made with fermented sour Jiangshui using wild bitter lettuce (in autumn and winter, celery is also used as the main ingredient), with hand-pulled noodles cooked and served in the soup, providing special effects such as cooling, anti-inflammatory, and stomach-nourishing properties.

Beef Noodles. The people of Tianshui also particularly enjoy beef noodles, which are available at halal restaurants and hotels during breakfast buffets. When a bowl of beef noodles is served, the aroma wafts up, and the bowl is filled with vibrant colors, making it both delicious and visually appealing.

【Tianshui Sanfan】Sanfan is the most commonly eaten and ordinary type of food in rural Tianshui. It is made with very simple ingredients, just cornmeal or mixed flour, and is also very easy to prepare. When the water in the pot boils, one hand evenly sprinkles the cornmeal into the pot while the other stirs, adjusting the consistency as needed. After vigorously stirring with a wooden spoon for several dozen circles, cover the pot and simmer for three to five minutes before it can be eaten. Despite the simplicity of the ingredients and preparation, the cooking time, raw materials, and cooking skills vary greatly, resulting in a hundred households having a hundred different flavors of Sanfan. The Sanfan made by skilled cooks remains delicious.

【Tianshui Da Lu Mian】Da Lu Mian is a typical local noodle dish from Tianshui, characterized by wide noodles, thick sauce, large bowls, and a sauce that is thick and clings tightly to the noodles, making it delicious and fully reflecting the rugged and bold character of the Northwest people. The biggest local feature of Tianshui Da Lu Mian lies in the "sauce," which has many types of toppings. To enjoy traditional and authentic Tianshui Da Lu Mian, one would need about eleven types of ingredients, while currently, eight or nine types are commonly seen.

【Qin'an Stomach Strips Soup】Qin'an Stomach Strips Soup is a unique snack from Qin'an in Tianshui. The preparation involves selecting pig stomach, cleaning it, boiling it in water until cooked, cooling it, and then cutting the pig stomach, bamboo shoots, spinach, and dried chili into strips. The pot is heated with scallions, ginger, garlic, and dried chili, followed by adding vinegar, broth, thickening sauce, and the stomach strips, bamboo shoots, and spinach, finishing with a drizzle of sesame oil and simmering. The finished soup is bright yellow, with stomach strips floating, and has a sour and numbing taste, with spiciness that lingers. The uniqueness of Stomach Strips Soup is due to the special quality of Qin'an's water; using water from other places does not yield as delicious a soup.

Local specialty foods in rural Tianshui are also dazzling, such as various wild vegetables picked from the mountains used in cold dishes, including wild chrysanthemum, walnut flowers, pepper sprouts, and gray vegetables, all of which are particularly delicious.

Various scenic areas also sell specialty snacks.

【Hua Niu Apples】Hua Niu Apples are a specialty of Tianshui City, a high-quality apple variety from the Yuan Shuai series produced in the Tianshui area, recognized as a national geographical indication product in China. The fruit has fine, dense, crisp flesh, is juicy, has a unique flavor, rich aroma, and good quality. It is recognized by many domestic and foreign experts and marketers as one of the three famous apple brands in the world, alongside American Red Delicious and Japanese Fuji apples. It is the first apple brand in China to obtain a formal trademark in the international market. On October 20, 2016, the former State Administration for Industry and Commerce recognized "Hua Niu Apples" as a "China Famous Trademark."

【Tianshui Big Cherries】Tianshui Big Cherries are a rare deciduous fruit tree species in northern China, originally from southeastern Europe and western Asia, introduced to Tianshui in the 1980s. Currently, the cherries from the Qinzhou District of Tianshui are the most authentic and have the purest flavor. Tianshui's big cherries are large, brightly colored, flavorful, have a good texture, are hard, pollution-free, and have high nutritional value. In 2010, two samples of cherries sent from Tianshui won "Gold" and "Silver" awards at the "China·Beijing Quality Cherry Competition." In 2012, the Qinzhou District of Tianshui was recognized by the Cherry Branch of the Chinese Horticultural Society as a "National Quality Sweet Cherry Production Base." Tianshui Big Cherries have become another advantageous specialty fruit following "Tianshui Hua Niu Apples."

【Qin'an Honey Peaches】Qin'an Honey Peaches are named after their origin in the Qin'an area of Gansu, known as the "Hometown of Melons and Fruits." Thanks to the local special climate and soil conditions, Qin'an Honey Peaches are colorful, delicious, and highly nutritious, known for their health benefits and longevity. They are praised with the saying, "In heaven, there are the peaches of the Queen Mother; on earth, there are Qin'an Honey Peaches," and have won the title of "Chinese Famous Fruit," being listed as a national geographical indication protected product. Qin'an Honey Peaches are renowned throughout China for their large size, bright color, delicious taste, high quality, environmental friendliness, and rich nutrition, earning Qin'an the title of "Hometown of Melons and Fruits."

Tianshui is truly a wonderful place, with mountains, water, history, culture, entertainment, food, and scenic spots. The climate is pleasant, warm in winter and cool in summer, truly deserving of the title "Hometown of the Yellow Emperor."