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seasoned potatoes

Chinese name: 洋芋叉叉(yang yù chā chā)

Style: Northern Shaanxi Style

Characteristics: Seasoned Potatoes is easy to make, low cost, and delicious. It can be served as either a main dish or a vegetable on the side.

Although traditionally a northern Shaanxi food, Seasoned Potatoes is also common in western Shanxi Province and eastern Gansu Province. Historically, it was a common dish of poor families due to its low cost, hence reputed "result of ingenuity in poverty". Nowadays, it is more widely used as more and more people realize the benefits of vegetarian foods.

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