Food and Restaurants

Pingyao offers traditional northern China cuisine and specializes in various noodle dishes and pastries. Locals will tell you they have over 108 kinds of noodles and pastries, try wantuoze, it's a famous noodle dish. Also sink your teeth into Pingyao's beefy dishes. Pingyao's stewed is slow cooked in its own gravy and mouthwatering tender – it's known throughout China. The street food menu includes fried pork-stuffed buns called shui jianbao, pancakes topped with string beans called doumian jianbao and steaming bowls of dumpling called kaolao. Pingyao doesn't have ritzy high-end restaurants; the food here is rustic and homey. All the restaurants here are open from 8am to 9:30pm. For beverages, try yellow millet wine.