Xi is a famous tourist city and a famous food and snack capital, where you can taste Sanqin cuisine. Xi 'an's delicious food should first be "two feasts" and "two bubbles".
The so-called "two banquets" include the Shaanxi snack banquet in xi 'an Restaurant and the dumpling banquet in Defachang jiaozi and Jiefang Road jiaozi. Shaanxi flavor snack banquet is called "Jinxiang Shaanxi". It is a special banquet composed of nearly 70 kinds of snacks selected from hundreds of snacks in the province, combined with traditional housekeeping dishes, high-quality famous dishes and innovative dishes in Xi' an restaurant, and has enjoyed a high reputation for decades. Defachang Dumpling House and Jiefang Road Dumpling House are both "Chinese time-honored brands" with many years of history. The dumpling banquets they provide are unique, with a unique flavor of "one dumpling and one hundred dumplings", which is known as "eternal flavor" and "the best in the world".
The so-called "two bubbles" are beef and mutton paomo and Hulutou paomo. Among them, the most famous are Laosunjia Restaurant and Tongshengxiang Restaurant, and Hulutou Paomo is a spring restaurant. Lao Sunjia and Tong Shengxiang are famous "Chinese time-honored brands" in Qin Dynasty, which were founded nearly a hundred years ago. The Western Hui cuisine, Western Hui snacks, Hui instant-boiled mutton and fat beef hotpot operated by two time-honored brands are also delicious and have local characteristics. Chunfa Hotel was established in 1920, and has a history of more than 80 years this year. The word "spring comes" was extracted by a famous poet in the 1920s from Du Fu's poem "Good rain knows the season, when spring comes". It is said that the production technology of Hulutou paomo in spring was handed down by Sun Simiao, the "King of Medicine" in Tang Dynasty.
In addition, Xi 'an's food culture is full of rich northwest customs, and tasting many snacks in Xi 'an is a great pleasure to visit Xi 'an. Chinese hamburger, mutton bread in soup, bean jelly, buckwheat noodles, gourd head, barbecue, noodle soup and sheep blood, etc. , are local famous dishes. When traveling to Xi, it is essential to taste the local delicacies in Xi. A bowl of mutton bubble that the northwest man can't forget for a long time, a mouthful of meat buns with endless aftertaste, and a plate of spicy and fragrant bean jelly can deeply impress the ancient city of Xi 'an.
Main dining room
There are countless delicious foods in Xi, and restaurants of all sizes are all over the streets. For tourists, the following blocks are places where restaurants of different sizes are concentrated:
East street 1.
There are many time-honored brands of Qin cuisine here, including Laosunjia Restaurant West Ethnic Catering Garden outside the East Gate, Xi 'an Restaurant on East Street, Laosunjia Restaurant Old Shop, Wuyi Hotel, Chunfa Restaurant Romanesque Restaurant, Xi 'an Roast Duck Restaurant, Defachang Dumpling Restaurant and Tongshengxiang Restaurant in Bell and Drum Tower Square.
2, South Street boutique shopping, food and entertainment street.
There are mainly Yongning Palace Hotel, Bauhinia Nightclub, Prince Seafood Hot Pot and other high-end restaurants, as well as a number of fast food restaurants, coffee bars and tea restaurants.
3. The gate of the North Yard, etc.
Manage all kinds of snacks in Muslim workshops, such as steamed buns, soup packets, roast mutton, sauce and halogen products, etc. Under the dim light of night, stroll around Huimin block, taste the food in the workshop and have fun.
4. South Second Ring Road.
It brings together brand catering enterprises from all over the country, and also reflects the achievements of Xi private catering 10 for more than years. There are not only popular snacks, hot pot dishes, home-cooked dishes, but also top dishes such as abalone, ginseng and wing belly. There are mainly Hong Kong-style Abalone Wing Restaurant, Shunfeng Seafood, Small Shells, Zhuyuan Village Hotpot and so on.
5. Dongxinjie Night Market.
This is a large night market in Xi, with many stalls and a wide variety of snacks, mainly Shaanxi flavor and snacks from all over the country, which can satisfy all tastes.
6. The snack plaza on the first floor of Lin Qiu Department Store is located at No.58, North Section of Yanta Road, Li Jiacun.
All kinds of delicious food, such as roast sheep blood, duck burrito, Chinese hamburger, hot dish, pot helmet, bean jelly, fermented glutinous rice, etc. I've had it since this morning. The price is not high, 10 yuan, so you can eat very full.
In addition, there are many civilian food streets, such as Nanshaomen Night Market, Baishulin Night Market, Beixinjie Night Market, Laoguanmiao Night Market, Jiaoer Village Night Market and Nanyuanmen Night Market, which are also very lively during the day, but the night market is more prosperous.
Xi anbichi gourmet
Niu mutton and bread pieces in soup
Xi snacks have a long history. Main raw materials: high-quality beef and mutton, Tuotuo steamed buns. Method: use high-quality beef and mutton with seasoning to boil in a pot, and use soup to serve as a backup. Break the baked "tiger's back chrysanthemum heart" into pieces the size of a little finger cover, add auxiliary materials and cook. Serve with sugar garlic, Chili sauce, sesame oil and coriander. Its characteristics are: the rotten meat soup is rich and delicious, sticky and smooth. Drink a small bowl of soup after eating, you will feel more fragrant and have a long aftertaste. It can be eaten all year round, and it is the best in winter. The best time to eat steamed stuffed buns is early morning and morning. On the one hand, the broth at this time is the freshest and thickest, with the best taste. On the other hand, steamed bread is slightly difficult to digest and is not suitable for eating at night.
Sheep blood in noodle soup
Sheep blood in powder soup is refined from three steps: blood preparation, seasoning preparation and bread soaking. Serve with vermicelli, coriander and other accessories. Sheep blood is fresh and tender, the entrance is smooth, the flavor is harmonious, and the spicy flavor is beautiful. Because most of the seasonings used are traditional Chinese medicines that warm the stomach and strengthen the stomach, they are especially favored by elderly customers with weak stomachs.
Rugamo; Rougamo;?Rou?Jia?Mo,?Chinese?hamburger
This name comes from the omission of "steamed bun meat" in ancient Chinese. It is a popular food often eaten and loved by local people. It is not only delicious, but also full. Meat with bacon, extremely crisp and rotten, fresh and long-lasting, fat is not greasy, and lean meat is neither firewood nor oil. This soup is made of boiled old soup. The steamed buns used to sandwich meat must be special Baiji buns. This kind of steamed bread tastes crisp and fragrant. When eating, take a small amount of bacon, cut it into pieces, add a little soup, put it in the freshly baked Baiji steamed bun, and eat it while it is hot, with endless aftertaste. The reference price is 2-5 yuan/piece. If you don't eat fat, the price of thin is 0.5- 1 yuan higher than that of ordinary ones.
Hulutou paomo
"Hulutou" is a unique traditional food in Xi 'an, which is famous at home and abroad for its mellow taste, rich soup, fresh and tender steamed buns and fat but not greasy. Its cooking technique is exquisite, and various colors are used reasonably. The most important thing is to deal with the intestines and stomachs, and make soup and make buns. Among them, the raw sausage belly has to go through more than a dozen processes to achieve the requirements of decontamination, deodorization and greasy solution, and make a delicious "gourd head". The soup is made of pig bones and fattening hens. The steamed bread is broken into the size of steamed bread and put into a bowl, soaked in intestines for three or four times, so that the hot soup penetrates into the steamed bread. When eating, add a small amount of cooked oil, coriander, oil spicy seeds, etc. Then pour in a proper amount of boiling soup with sugar, garlic and kimchi, which is delicious. Nowadays, there are new varieties of gourd head paomo, such as cucumber gourd head, squid gourd head, chicken slice gourd head and big meat gourd head. Xi people praised the delicious gourd head and said, "When you mention the gourd head, your mouth will water."
Huang Gui persimmon cake
Lintong specialty "Huojing persimmon" is made of flour, mixed with cinnamon, rose, peach kernel, sugar, rock sugar, green shredded pork and so on. , and stir the top-grade suet as the filling, and bake the whole pot with charcoal fire. Golden surface, soft and sweet taste. It is a seasonal product in autumn and winter every year. According to legend, after Li Zicheng revolted in the late Ming Dynasty and established Dashun regime in Xi 'an, he immediately led the rebel army to attack Beijing. During the famine and food shortage, farmers burned fire crystal persimmon and flour in Lintong into cakes for the rebels to eat. Later, farmers baked persimmons every year to commemorate Li Zicheng. After years of improvement, persimmon has become the unique flavor of Xi 'an. Huimin street is sold along the street. Lao Xu persimmon, a century-old shop in Guangji North Street, is even better.
Fried rice with Chinese sauerkraut
"Sauerkraut fried rice" is actually fried rice, which is the unified name of local people. Rice can be served with shredded pork, vegetables, eggs and so on. But the most common and famous is fried shredded pork with sauerkraut, commonly known as "fried rice with sauerkraut". Fried rice is mixed with sour and oily taste of sauerkraut, which tastes sour and spicy, fragrant but not greasy, and the rice is not sticky and refreshing. With rinse tripe, barbecue, sour plum soup, egg soup, etc. It tastes more. The most famous shop is "Fried Rice with Red Sauerkraut" in Huimin Street, but the service attitude is not very good.
Shuanniudu
Xi 'an's famous street snack, fresh tripe sliced, put on with bamboo sticks, cooked in broth, and then dipped in juice made of sesame sauce, Chili sauce and various seasonings, is both fragrant and delicious.
Chong Lou Xiao nai Gao
Many years ago, the Bell Tower Food Store first introduced a very old Xi local ice cream and sold it in the Bell Tower District. Therefore, it is nicknamed "Bell Tower Little Milk Cake", which is inexpensive and enduring, and is the most popular cold drink in the local area. There are many flavors, such as cocoa, red beans, peanuts, kiwi fruit, strawberries and so on. But the most classic taste is creamy, and the milk taste is very strong. The brands are Bell Tower, Snowball and Bell and Drum Tower, all of which are good, but the most authentic brand is Bell and Drum Tower launched by Bell Tower Food Store.
Gao Dai
Xi's special snacks. The big-mouthed iron pot for steaming cakes was called "Zan" in ancient times, hence its name. Pot cakes are soft and delicate. This dessert is steamed with glutinous rice, beans and red dates. After steaming, it is full of fragrance. The rice in the lower layer of the retort cake infiltrated into the jujube color, showing a fresh deep red color, the beans in the upper layer were brown, and then the dark red jujube paste was on the upper layer. Finally, sprinkle a layer of green raisins on the jujube paste, which looks attractive. Pot cakes taste soft and sweet, and they are full. This is the food that local people often eat. Especially in autumn and winter, vendors selling baked rice cakes can be seen everywhere in the streets of Xi, and many students and office workers also take baked rice cakes as breakfast.
Snacks and bread pieces in soup
Known locally as "stir-fry", it is a Muslim food with the same characteristics as beef and mutton bread in soup, but it is different in practice: ordinary bread in soup is cooked, while stir-fry is fried. In terms of materials, ingredients such as day lily, fungus, vegetables, dried beans and eggs are added to the cooking. And the beef cut into small pieces is directly fried with oil and vinegar. The taste of cooking is both rich and thick in paomo and sour and unique. If you can't eat spicy food, you must tell the waiter in advance.
steamed dumplings
Steamed buns are exquisite in materials and fine in workmanship. It is made of fine flour and hot noodles, with ribs as stuffing, fresh bone marrow soup as stuffing and more than ten kinds of superior seasonings as seasoning. Steamed buns are delicious and tender, with thin skin and soft tendons, beautiful appearance, rich soup and oily but not greasy.
soba noodle
In ancient times, Lehe was called "River Leak" and "buckwheat noodles are black, tough and refreshing, which can entertain guests", which is a compliment to this traditional snack in Guanzhong area of Shaanxi Province. Buckwheat noodles Lehe is a kind of slender round pasta made of buckwheat noodles, and buckwheat is a kind of nutritious grain. When making buckwheat noodles, fresh buckwheat is selected for grinding, which is characterized by thin and tough strips and delicious fragrance. It can eat hot in winter and cold in summer, and has a unique flavor. If it is eaten cold, you can add seasonings such as oil, chili pepper, mashed garlic and mustard, which is very refreshing. There are many restaurants and countless stalls in Xi 'an. The teaching gate in the northwest corner of the Muslim Temple is very famous.
cold noodles with sauce
There are many kinds of cold rice noodles in Xi, which are made of flour or rice, so they are divided into two categories: rice skin and dough skin. The rice skin is white and bright, and Qin Zhen rice noodles in Huxian County are the most popular. Its production technology is unique. The prepared skin is hard, thin, thin and smooth. In addition, Chili oil ground and boiled with fine peppers and various spices is a perfect match. The prepared cold noodles are as red as fire, sour and refreshing, and served with yellow and green bean sprouts and celery.