Yulin’s specialty snacks include Jiaxian horseshoe cakes, fried soy milk, Yulin tofu, millet jelly, Pinsan Xian, Qingjian pancakes, Suide oil spinners, haggis, Yuyang eight-treasure rice, rice-fat bowls, Zizhou noodles, Wubao dough cakes, and Jiaxian alkali cakes.

1. Millet jelly

Millet jelly is a traditional snack in Fugu, Yulin City, Shaanxi Province. It uses high-quality millet as the main raw material and then uses traditional production techniques to make jelly. There are many ways to eat millet jelly. You can add chili oil, red soy sauce, chopped green onion and other seasonings and eat it cold. You can also put a small amount of oil in the pot and stir-fry it with onions, ginger and garlic. No matter which way you eat it, it tastes very delicious.

2. Yulin Tofu

Yulin tofu is a specialty product of Yulin, Shaanxi Province. It has a very long history. The specific origin time has not been studied. According to records, it was already famous throughout the world in the Ming Dynasty. Yulin has a very advantageous geographical environment, with sufficient sunlight, four distinct seasons, fertile soil, and abundant water resources, which is very suitable for the growth of black beans. Yulin tofu uses black beans as the main raw material, and is refined through multiple complex production processes such as kang drying, peeling, soaking, grinding, filtering, and boiling. The tofu produced is very tender, soft and tough, and very delicious.

3. Pinsanxian

Pinsanxian is a famous traditional dish in Yulin, Shaanxi Province. It has a very long history and its specific origin has been unknown. It is said that Kangxi and Qianlong tasted it and everyone praised it. It was also brought into the palace to entertain foreign envoys. Pinsanxian uses pork, mutton, and chicken as the main raw materials, and is supplemented with fungus, kelp shreds, water lilies, etc. as auxiliary ingredients, add seasonings, and then boil them together. The production process of Pinsanxian is very complicated, and it is not something that ordinary chefs can make.