In the past two years, there have been various news reports that Chinese food has gone abroad and foreign friends like it very much. In fact, to be fair, foreign dishes are nothing more than one word: roast, roast, roast ... whether it's toast, pizza or chicken legs, it seems that God taught foreigners this skill when he gave them it.
Chinese food is different. Stir-fry, fry, fry, boil, boil and stew. Look at this cooking method. Not only that, Chinese food also pays attention to color, aroma and taste. When it comes to cooking, we in China are the ancestors of foreigners. I think this sentence is not too much. There are eight cuisines in the cuisine alone, namely Shandong cuisine, Sichuan cuisine, Guangdong cuisine, Jiangsu cuisine, Fujian cuisine, Zhejiang cuisine, Hunan cuisine and Anhui cuisine. Each has its own characteristics and advantages.
But today, let's talk about Shaanxi, a province that almost belongs to the central part of China, but it doesn't have its own cuisine. As a Shaanxi native, as a Shaanxi native who has studied in Shaanxi for four years. The most painful thing is that a friend from other provinces asked me, "Are there any special dishes in Shaanxi?" I hesitated for a long time, but my classmates couldn't say it for a long time, saying that there were no specialties in Shaanxi? I casually said, "Who said no, oily biangbiang noodles".
In fact, Shaanxi is really not a cuisine. Although in recent years, many characteristic restaurants in Guanzhong, Shaanxi have appeared various "Shaanxi cuisine", such as gourd chicken, compared with the eight major cuisines, Shaanxi cuisine is simply dwarfed, and compared with snacks in the region, it is almost "not worth mentioning".
Shaanxi snacks are almost the most famous in China. A foreigner who has never been to Shaanxi may not know how many dynasties xi 'an had, nor which gate of Xi 'an Emperor Taizong Li Shimin staged a coup. However, I must know about Chinese hamburger, mutton bread in soup and cold rice noodles in Shaanxi.
In today's China, I think if a city wants to have its own snacks, it must first have a profound cultural background. If it wants to have a wide variety of snacks, it must have a strong collision between culture and eating habits here.
Looking at several cities that can be called snack cities now, they can't escape this rule. Beijing, Nanjing, Chengdu and Xi 'an are all the same. ...
I remember a scholar said that eating mutton and steamed buns is actually eating culture, and I agree with you very much. As the capital of the Han and Tang Dynasties, especially the Tang Dynasty, when Xi 'an was still "Chang 'an", all kinds of things must have happened. We should not envy any food. I think the snacks in Shaanxi are beautiful! Really can't. Can I order a fried cake?