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AI illustration: A simple bowl of white yogurt beside a small plate of pale fresh cheese pieces.
Tibet (Xizang)

Tibetan Yogurt 酸奶

Tibetan Yogurt (酸奶) in Lhasa (拉萨) is set from yak milk, thick enough that sugar sprinkled on top does not dissolve, and sharply sour.

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AI illustration: A simple bowl of white yogurt beside a small plate of pale fresh cheese pieces.
Tibet (Xizang)

Dried Cheese Curds 奶渣

Dried Cheese Curds (奶渣) are the curds left from yak milk after butter has been churned out, dried into hard white pieces and eaten in Tibet as a snack and a seasoning.

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Tibet (Xizang)

Cheese Curd Cake 奶渣糕

Cheese Curd Cake (奶渣糕) is a Tibetan food made from crumbled milk curd, butter and red sugar. In Shigatse (日喀则), butter cheese-curd cakes are among the traditional foods sold for the Farmers' New Year.

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AI illustration: Small rectangular and irregular pieces of sesame or peanut brittle and puffed-rice candy on a simple plate.
Shaanxi

Yaozhou Snowflake Candy 耀州雪花糖

Yaozhou Snowflake Candy (耀州雪花糖) is a millet-and-sesame malt candy from Yaozhou District (耀州区) of Tongchuan (铜川), Shaanxi. The Tongchuan city government lists it as a Shaanxi provincial intangible cultural heritage item.

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AI illustration: Small rectangular and irregular pieces of sesame or peanut brittle and puffed-rice candy on a simple plate.
Shaanxi

Sanyuan Puffed Sesame Rice Candy 三原蓼花糖

Sanyuan Puffed Sesame Rice Candy (三原蓼花糖) is a glutinous-rice sweet with a golden surface covered in sesame and a fine, mesh-like interior. White sugar and maltose syrup join the rice and sesame in its preparation.

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AI illustration: A small plate of softly rendered cooked fruit pieces and a little fruit preserve in a dish.
Gansu

Frozen Soft Pear Dessert 软儿梨甜品

Frozen Soft Pear Dessert (软儿梨甜品) is the ruan'er or soft pear (软儿梨) of Lanzhou (兰州), eaten in winter after the whole fruit has frozen and thawed again.

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AI illustration: A plate of small golden Chinese flaky pastries and a round stamped mooncake.
Gansu

Liangzhou Giant Mooncake 凉州大月饼

Liangzhou Giant Mooncake (凉州大月饼) is the Mid-Autumn cake of Wuwei (武威) in Gansu, a layered, patterned cake whose defining feature, in the words of the Wuwei city government, is simply that it is big.

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