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Xi 'an Huimin Street is a famous food and cultural block in Xi 'an, and it is the block with the most concentrated specialty snacks in Xi 'an. The gate of the North Courtyard, where Huimin Street is located, is the official office area of the Qing Dynasty. Because the Shaanxi Governor's Office is in the north of the Drum Tower, it is named the North Courtyard. At the end of 1991' s, some Hui people rented houses in this street for catering business, and Lianhu District was transformed into a catering street, and the North Yard Gate became Huimin Street.
Huimin Street in Xi 'an, as one of the representatives of Xi 'an customs, is the collective name of many streets in Huimin block, which is composed of several streets, such as Beiguangji Street, Beiyuanmen, Xiyang City, Dapiyuan, Huajue Lane and Sajinqiao, behind the Bell and Drum Tower.
its profound cultural heritage, a large number of gourmet shops on both sides of the street and nearly 311 kinds of special snacks make people linger and can't stop!
Introduction to scenic spots
Huimin Street is famous as a block with concentrated food. Although it is regarded as a tourist spot for foreign tourists, in fact, local residents have always regarded it as the main place to eat snacks and go shopping and relax, especially in the summer night market, where more citizens eat and enjoy the cool to kill time. In fact, the whole "Huifang" area is full of restaurants, and all kinds of halal restaurants and stalls are densely connected, including many old-fashioned shops most recognized by locals. In addition to North Yard Gate, Daxie Lane and Xiyang City, the "Huifang" area also includes a large area such as Dapiyuan, Dongyang City, Beiguangji Street and Qiaozikou. Old Xi 'an called this area "Fangshang", where you can explore the most civilian and authentic life in Xi 'an. However, the last few places have to go further from Huimin Street, which is not easy to find, and there are relatively few foreign tourists.
At night, Huimin Street is different from the daytime. The whole street is shrouded with a strong market atmosphere, and all kinds of pavements with electric lights and steam lights are hung on both sides of the road, mainly selling cakes, dried fruits, candied fruit and snacks. Behind these stalls are many restaurants that operate local snacks. When there are many people, not only the shops are full of people, but also the doors are full of tables and chairs. The fireworks of kebabs and tripe-washing filled the whole street under the dim light. The bustling crowd were all shopping and eating. When they saw something they liked at the stall, they made a counter-offer. You can also rest on the seats in Gulou Square and watch the kite vendors put dozens of meters of kites on the high-rise building across the road. Everything is full of real and lively life enthusiasm.
food introduction
Xi' an has a strong northwest flavor. Chinese hamburger, mutton bread in soup, cold rice noodles, Qishan noodles and dumpling banquet are well known by many people in Shaanxi.
There are many restaurants in Xi 'an, and there are several specialized mutton soup restaurants on almost every street, the most famous of which is undoubtedly Laosunjia mutton soup restaurant. In addition, Tongshengxiang Beef and Mutton Paomo Pavilion, Xiguan Beef and Mutton Paomo Pavilion, and TieZhiming (selling beef and mutton) have long been famous.
people in Xi' an Square are good at making snacks. They have completely preserved the traditional muslim food flavor, with exquisite materials, fine production, and a variety of sweet, salty, spicy and vegetarian dishes, making them the first Muslim snacks in China. Beef and mutton paomo, preserved beef and mutton, stewed mutton offal, steamed mutton with flour, honey-cooled zongzi, Shengshi stuffed skin, mutton cake, eight-treasure sweet porridge, chili soup, cold rice noodles, rice skin, rolled noodles, mutton dumplings, leek cakes, sour soup dumplings, soup dumplings, beef Lamian Noodles, mirror cakes, stir-fried cakes and mutton dumplings with minced meat.
soup dumplings
the main ingredients of soup dumplings are beef, mutton and rib meat, and the meat is beaten with soup made from sheep bones and seasoning soup. After steaming, it has the characteristics of "the skin is as thin as paper, the stuffing is tender and contains soup, and the seasoning is fragrant". Jiasan soup dumpling is a famous Muslim snack in Xi 'an, which is famous for its head and bright font size.
Jia San, relying on the excellent national tradition and the professionalism handed down from generation to generation, has created a series of delicacies named "Jia San" in the form of "soup filling" after three years of initial establishment, five years of foundation and ten years of painstaking discovery and twenty years of continuous innovation. The value and significance of "Jia San's soup dumpling" is not limited to filling in the blanks for Xi 'an Food Garden, but his soup dumpling contains many things that make the world think.
traditional snacks are mostly bought and sold in the form of "holding the top plate and calling signs along the street", and further development has led to the pattern of shops and markets with "bright pots and bright stoves" and "front shops and back homes", while Jia San's soup dumplings have entered the market with the marketing ideas of "collectivization" and "industrialization". Jia San has his own professional research, marketing planning and industrial development team. It can be said that Jia San is famous for his "soup dumplings". At the same time, it gives "soup dumplings" unlimited value and significance. Based on the traditional theory of China culture, Jia San made an infinite career with a small soup bag.
Looking at the snack industry in China, we will find that there are many snacks in Xi 'an, with a full range of varieties and patterns, but not many of them really have "Xi 'an characteristics". Most of them are domestic, coarse and omnivorous marketing varieties, lacking snack brands with distinctive personality and excellent quality. Jia San is a wonderful flower in Xi 'an Snack Garden, which is both genuine and independent. While showing the regional characteristics of Xi 'an snacks, it also shows the characteristics of Xi 'an Muslim food culture.
When you enter the antique street of Beiyuanmen, which is located in the Hui nationality area of Xi 'an, you will easily find "Jia San Guan Tang Bao Zi" between the quaint and dignified archway and the corridor. I can feel the enthusiasm and thoughtfulness, and there are many inscriptions and photos of celebrities and famous artists hanging in the store. At this time, you will be surprised to find that almost all the celebrities in the country have patronized and tasted the "Jia San soup dumplings". Moreover, we will find that cultural taste and cultural character occupy a large proportion in Jia San's marketing ideas. Only in the shop of "Jia San Guan Tang Bao Zi" can you really discover the culture of Bao Zi and the cultural Bao Zi.
beef and mutton in soup
is known as "a unique skill in Shaanxi", and its history can be traced back to the 11 th century BC. In the Book of Songs, there is a saying that "friends drink wine and kill lambs". Mutton bread in soup is full of fragrance and endless aftertaste, which is praised by many international friends who come to Xi 'an. Beef and mutton bread in soup is almost recognized as the best snack in Xi 'an (the most widely spread and unique). Eating paomo, the old diners in Xi 'an pay attention to going to Huimin Square. Sometimes, in an ordinary small shop, the big bowl is full of fragrance.
Paomo pays attention to breaking by hand. When you enter the Paomo Pavilion, you should serve two or three buns, wash your hands and find a place to sit down and break them carefully. It's said to be steamed buns, but it's actually half-baked bread, two taels each, with white flour and well-baked, half-cooked. Put the famous big and old bowl in Shaanxi on your lap, divide the cake into several pieces first, and then slowly pinch it into pieces the size of a small fingernail. After breaking, rub it inside with your hands a few times to let the powder attached to the fragments fall off, so that the boiled steamed buns will be thick and juicy. Then clip the number with a clip and take it to the master for processing. As soon as the discerning master sees this way of breaking off, he will understand that the old diners who know how to make buns are coming, and they will be extra careful when cooking buns.
Nowadays, the pace of life is getting faster and faster. Most Paomo restaurants keep pace with the times, adding a blender, which can quickly process buns into even small pieces. Most of the younger generation like this improvement. However, the old diners will always scoff at this processing method. The steamed buns that have been made with great efforts have increased the contact area with the soup by hand, which will make them more delicious, so that they can be worthy of that pot of old soup.
Cooked with steamed buns, there are vermicelli with ribs, fresh garlic sprouts and several large pieces of braised mutton. The mutton is tender, crisp and fragrant. Most of the meat shops have more than a dozen water tanks half buried in the backyard soil, which are the soup cooked by various secret spices. First, soak the prepared chunks of raw beef and mutton in the soup for about two days, then take them out of the old soup in a big iron pot and add more than a dozen spices to cook together. When the meat is cooked to six or seven degrees, add a wooden shelf to the same pot, put the meat on it from the soup, change the slow fire, cover the pot and steam overnight, and the steamed meat can be used to make steamed buns the next morning. Cook the meat steamed meat juice, after blending, is the soup base used when cooking steamed buns. How can the meat made in this way not be crispy and delicious?
when the cooked steamed buns are served on the table, there is no hot air, but the bowl feels hot. Use chopsticks to poke away in the corner, and the hot air will come with fragrance. There is a layer of oil floating on the top of the bowl, which seals the aroma of hot air. This is a wonderful method of heat preservation invented by Xi 'an people. You can't stir when eating steamed buns. You should always put them into your mouth with chopsticks along the edge of the bowl, otherwise the soup will leak and the hot air will run away. A real eater, a bowl of steamed buns burns his mouth at the end.
snack information
Xi' an mirror cake: a traditional snack in Shaanxi, which is steamed from glutinous rice and looks like a round mirror. Those who manage mirror cakes are mostly peddlers. There is a poem in the Qing Dynasty: "The days are long under the Liu Yin tree, and the mirror cake is also fragrant.". Before entering Huimin Street, there are many cars selling mirror cakes under the Drum Tower. The mirror cakes are placed in very small cages with red and green spices on them, and sesame seeds and sugar will be dipped when you want to eat them.
gold thread oil tower: it is named after the continuous winding of gold thread and the overlapping of towers. When eating, it is supplemented with scallion, sweet noodle sauce and almond syrup, which has a unique flavor.
Sour Plum Soup: It should be a bit far-fetched to say that it is a snack in Xi 'an, but it is sold in many homes in Huimin Street, and most of them are directly boiled by plums bought by shopkeepers themselves.
retort cake: also known as crystal dragon and phoenix cake, made of glutinous rice and red dates, stacked alternately and spread in three or four layers. Steam it over low and high fire. Bright color, red and white, sticky and sweet. It is a traditional breakfast food in Guanzhong area, a sweet cake made of glutinous rice and red dates.