Barbecue has a long history in Jiayuguan, and it has appeared in the Eastern Han Dynasty as early as in the East. Located 20 kilometers northeast of Jiayuguan, a vast desert is located in thousands of ancient tombs. It is the largest underground gallery in the world - the tomb of the Wei and Jin Dynasties in the new town. Archaeological experts in the Wei and Jin tomb No. six East West anterior wall and anterior wall, were found in the painted brick kebab. The characters on the brick are dressed with two fork tools and placed on the top for barbecue. It can be seen from these brick paintings that people in Jiayuguan area began to eat barbecue at that time.

On the streets of Jiayuguan, the stalls selling roasted mutton are seen everywhere. Two barbecues and two bottles of beer can make the citizens happy for a night. In the winter barbecue shops, two barbecues and a pot of yellow rice wine are more comfortable for customers.

The roast mutton in Jiayuguan is particularly exquisite when it is selected. Mutton must be lamb in one year; it can not be added more or wrong when adding material; the roasted mutton is red, spicy and spicy, not greasy and tender. Jiayuguan roast meat is cut, worn and roasted, not limited to roast lamb, but also roast lamb chop, roast lamb leg, roast mutton, roast sheep's hoof, roast sheep's skin, roast sheep head and so on. These features are the differences between Jiayuguan roast meat and Xinjiang roast meat.

Every morning, the master of Jiayuguan barbecue must go to the meat market to pick up the meat of the top fat and thin, meat, cut meat at noon, and start to wear meat roast at dusk until three or four in the morning. When the meat is barbecue, you must first cut the fresh mutton into the meat slices of about 3 square centimeters of the thumb, and make them fat and thin, and string them on the special iron drill, each with three pieces of meat. Then sprinkle the seasoning evenly on the mutton, evenly and evenly discharge it on the ovens burning anthracite, sprinkled with salt, chili powder, and cumin powder on the side of the roast. After 3 to 5 minutes, the side of the meat is red when it is red and then roasted on the other side again, and then grilled for two minutes and then brush the oil to eat.

The market of Fu Qiang Road, Jiayuguan market, mirror market, Jianshe Road market, Datang Road food street and Jiayuguan barbecue restaurant are relatively concentrated.