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Sazi, Alashan

All the ethnic groups of Alashan has the custom to eat Sazi , the making technique of which becomes far better in later generations and is regarded as “the Excellence” ,especially for the Hui minority, who are proficient in frying Sazi. Whenever Lasser Bairam, Corban Festival and other joyous festivals come, people not only fry flour cake, but Sazi. First, mix fine flour with little amount of light salt water and rub it into sth resembling cotton, then mediated with water, work and press it again and again into thick stripes, rubbed with light oil and leave to be fermented in the basin. After the oil is boiling in the pot, hold together the four fingers of left hand to be winded for seven laps of flour stripes. Stretch it to the shape of rings, and then hitch them round two bamboo chopsticks. Put them into the boiling oil, by swinging and stretching. When Nazi stripes are a little harder, pull off the chopsticks. Stoop it out when fried into a brown yellow.