1, Xi'an Liangpi

Liangpi is one of the special snacks in Shaanxi, originating from the Qin Dynasty, with a long history and a wide variety. It is tender and smooth, with excellent flavor and rich nutrition. Eat in winter to keep warm, eat in summer to eliminate summer heat, relieve fatigue and dispel dampness, it can be said that all seasons are suitable, rare natural green pollution-free food. The Compendium of Materia Medica says: rice can nourish the spleen, wheat can tonify the heart. Cold skin with sesame sauce is a halal way of eating and is most common in Hui Min Street. Characterized by a large amount of sesame sauce as one of the main ingredients of flavoring. The taste is excellent.

2, cauldron cake

Cauldron cake is a specialty snack in Xi'an, originating in Zhou, a long history. The deep cauldron in which the cake is steamed was called "cauldron" in ancient times, hence the name. With a soft and delicate texture, this dessert snack is steamed with glutinous rice, kidney beans and red dates, and is fragrant when cooked. The lower layer of white rice is infiltrated with jujube color, giving it a bright reddish-red hue, while the upper layer of kidney beans is a brownish coffee color, followed by a layer of dark-red jujube paste, and finally a layer of turquoise raisins sprinkled on top of the jujube paste, making it a very attractive product. Caerdron cake has a soft and sweet texture and is very filling, which is a favorite food of the local people.

3, Xi'an meat steamed bun

meat steamed bun is a famous snack in Shaanxi, the bun appearance of burnt, clear stripes, the internal layer, the cake body swelling, crispy skin, tender, fire power to the home, the temperature to consume the best hot hands, and the old Tongguan meat steamed buns is a hot steamed bun sandwiched between cold meat, cake crispy meat, crisp and not greasy.

4, Biángbiáng noodles

Biángbiáng noodles (Hanyu Pinyin: Biángbiáng miàn, biang is a word, there are a variety of ways to write, can not be entered into the computer, often instead of writing BiángBiáng noodles, biángbiang noodles, or piao piao, ice noodles) is a traditional noodle dishes, because of the production of traditional flavors of Guanzhong, Shaanxi. Traditional flavor noodles, named for the sound of biang, biang in the production process, specifically refers to flour ground from wheat in Guanzhong, usually pulled by hand into long, wide, thick noodles.

5, mutton steamed bun

According to relevant historical records, mutton steamed bun was formed in the second year of Emperor Suzong Zhide of the Tang Dynasty, more than a thousand years, through the continuous development and innovation of Xi'an Fang on the people, "steamed bun" has been in the color, aroma, taste, shape and so on aspects of the great improvement and enhancement, and has become a dish that the top of the dignitaries, the people are fond of eating, and the people are very happy to eat. It has become an excellent gourmet food which is enjoyed by all the people from the top to the bottom of the society. "Thirty million Qin people roar Qinqiang, a bowl of lamb bubble joy", Shaanxi people on the degree of love for mutton steamed buns can be seen.

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The historical story behind Xi'an's specialty snacks:

Mutton Buns - Emperor Zhao Kuangyin of the Song Dynasty locates the fast food on the Silk Road

Legend has it that Emperor Zhao Kuangyin of the Song Dynasty was stranded in Chang'an before he claimed the title of Emperor, and he spent his days living a starving life. One day, he was so poor that he only had a dry bun left in his arms, hungry, he passed by a small store to buy beef and mutton, the shopkeeper saw his poor, so he broke his dry bun with a spoonful of mutton broth on the fire to cook through with his hunger. He was so hungry that he devoured it, feeling that its flavor was the best food in the world.

Zhao Kuangyin yellow robe, one day after the tour of Chang'an, with the civil and military ministers came to this store, let the owner to do another bowl of mutton steamed buns. Out of the palace, he still felt the flavor is delicious, so the dragon heart is very happy, and immediately rewarded 100 silver. This matter soon spread throughout Chang'an, lamb meat buns from the reputation of the ancient capital.

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