Xi an Food Journey

Xian is legendary as "the capital of table delicacies." The ancient city which is the capital of thirteen dynasties is famous for the delicious Shaanxi snack, the delicate Guangdong cuisine, various kinds of fashionable foreign delicacies, and the popular Sichuan cuisine, such as hot pot. There’s a saying that you can never try out all the xi’an snacks in a week until your stomach is going to explode.



Top 1:dumpling Banquet
Dumpling Banquet.Dumpling, or Jiaozi in Chinese, is one of the most representative Chinese food. The food can be dated back two thousands years ago. Ingredients for the dumpling fillings include various meats, vegetables, and seasonings. Cooking methods include steaming, boiling, pan-frying, deep frying, and roasting. Many flavors, including salty, sweet, hot, and sour are offered. Other house specialties include Peking dumplings, steamed sweet bean paste buns, steamed shrimp paste buns, and various uniquely spiced dishes. While guests sample various delicacies, traditionally waiters will explain the cuisine culture of each dumpling.



Top 2: Yang Rou Pao MO(Mutton Bread)
Visitors to Xian must do two things: one is to see the clay figures of terra cotta warriors and horses. The other is to taste Yang Rou Pao Mo (a soup dish that involves breaking wheat flour flat bread into a bowl and adding a delicious mutton stock). Before dinner, you will be served one or two pieces of wheat flour flat bread which you into tiny chunks, the smaller the better. The waiter or the waitress will then hand your bowl to the cook who mixes the bread and mutton soup with an appropriate relish. When the steaming hot meal is brought in, the waiter will also offer you sweet crisp pickled garlic, coriander, and hot pepper sauce. The most famous, the Tong Sheng Xiang (Prosperity and Fortune) Beef and Lamb Paomo Restaurant done in Tang Dynasty style, is a time-honored establishment in the Xian Bell and Drum Tower Square.
Top 3: Guan Tang Bao Zi

One of Xian's most famous specialties is the Guan Tang Baozi (steamed buns served with sauces inside) served at Jia Brothers' Restaurant in Muslim Snack Street. You'll know you're there when you see the monstrous blue arch over the entrance and a wall festooned with photographs of Xian notables -- TV hosts, writers, and musicians. The specialty dish is Guan Tang Bao Zi, with a choice of beef, lamb or "three flavors" -- lamb, mushroom, and prawns. The buns have piping-hot soup inside, so caution is advised. This dish is best washed down with Ba Bao Xi Fan, a bowl of sweet rice porridge filled with peanuts, sultanas, hawthorn, and medlar berries.


Top 4: Rou Jia MO ( Grilled Steam Bread With Mincemeat Fil)

Fanji is the famous vendor of Shaanxi's most widely consumed snack, Rou Jia Mo, finely chopped pork stuffed in toasted wheat flour flat bread. A piece of good-quality (youzhi) bread and a bowl of mung bean flour soup will cost you no more than RM3. Roujiamo(finely chopped pork stuffed in baked pancake).It looks like a hamburger, but tast it you will find they are complete different.Roujiamo is made of mincemeat wrapped by griddle steamed bread. Meat used in Roujiamo is a kind of cured meat stewed with assorted sauces in a kettle. This makes the meat soft, eay to chew and taste with a lasting flavor. HIgh culinary skill is required to produce this kind of meat.The state-run atmosphere is quaint and friendly, and the numerous awards that decorate the walls are well deserved.

Top 5:Liangpi (Cold Noodles)
Liangpi(cold noodles) is a famous summer snack (also sold in winter) in Xi’an. There are variety kinds of Liang Pi, but this snack is made from wheat flour (or other starch). It looks translucent and tastes cold, and known for its white color, thin shape, smooth surface, pliable texture, and tender and savory taste. It is eaten along with garlic, ginger, pepper, sauce, vinegar, bean sprouts, capsicum flour, salt, sliced cucumber, caraway, chicken essence, sesame oil etc.


Top 6 Kobab

• A fascinating lure for food buffs is Local Snacks Street (Moslem Street) near Drum Tower in Muslim Square. On the two sides of the 500-meter street, there are many restaurants of different cuisines along with unique snack shops.



Top 7 Buckwheat Noodles

Chopped Buckwheat Noodles are Buckwheat flour noodles chopped by knife. Buckwheat is one of good minor cereals of Northern Shaanxi Province.The cereal is high-protein and low-fat, and with high vitamin contents.




Top 8: qi Shan Noodles


Qishan Noodles originated in Qishan County and hence it is named after the county name.



Top 9 Xiao Jing Gao ( Eight Treasure Rose Mirror Cake)

The eight-treasure rose mirror cake is a traditional Moslem sweet cake for breakfast, which has more than one –hundred- year history in Xi’an
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Top 10 hu la tang (Xi'an Hu La Tang Soup)

Actually, Hu La Tang is very popular in Shaanxi and Henan Province. But the cooking style is different. Xi'an local Muslims can do it the best. It is usually a sticky soup with potatoes, beans, carrots, cabbages, and meat balls. The actual name in Xian of this hot and spicy( spicy is optional) food is Rou Wan Hu La Tang.

In one word, If you are going to Xi’an, without trying those snacks you would regret forever.