Mutton Soup 羊肉汤
Mutton Soup is featured among the local specialties of Henan.
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Mutton Soup (羊肉汤) in Luoyang (洛阳) is one of three traditional dishes for which the city issued a local cooking-technique standard in April 2020; the other two are beef soup and the Xin'an (新安) scalded-dough dumpling.
Ingredients
The Luoyang mutton soup standard recommends meat from good goat breeds such as white goats and dairy goats raised in the hilly country of western Henan, with the animal's weight kept between 35 and 50 kilograms.
According to Dahe Daily (大河报), the standards set out the ingredients, equipment, cooking process and sensory requirements while keeping the dishes' traditional character.
Where it comes from
The standard was drafted by the Mengjin County (孟津县) market regulator, the Luoyang quality inspection and testing centre and two soup houses: the Tiexie Lisong mutton soup house (铁谢李松羊肉汤馆) in Baihe (白鹤), Mengjin, and the Sandan mutton soup house (三旦羊肉汤馆) in Longmen (龙门). The drafters collected written material, watched the cooking, heard the soup houses' head cooks explain their technique and tasted the results on site.
The Luoyang market regulator describes the standard as advisory. It names only the few seasonings nearly every shop uses, because the city's beef and mutton soups have developed many flavours over time, with each soup house using different seasonings in different proportions. The regulator calls that variety the appeal of Luoyang as a "soup city" (汤城).
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Zhangdi Mutton Soup 丈地羊肉汤 →
Another Henan mutton soup, named for Zhangdi village in Xuchang; Luoyang's mutton soup is the subject of a 2020 city cooking-technique standard.
Questions before you order
What meat does Luoyang's mutton soup standard recommend?
Goat from good breeds such as white goats and dairy goats raised in the hills of western Henan, weighing 35 to 50 kilograms.
Sources & reading
Written from the linked sources and checked sentence by sentence against quoted extracts by a separate reviewer on 2026-09-24. Recipes and servings vary between kitchens.