Mazilu Beef Noodles

Top choice in Lanzhou


In business since 1954, this place has locals flocking here for steaming bowls of the city's most well-known export: spicy hand-pulled noodles. Join the queue inside the door and ask for niúròu miàn (牛肉面). You'll be given a ticket, which you take to the kitchen counter where chefs will prepare your noodles fresh. Grab chopsticks from machines at the ticket counter.

Go early, as noodles are traditionally a breakfast food in Lanzhou.


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