Xian Dining
The fantastic Xian food are also great charms to tourists. Xian food is featured with classic China’s northwestern flavors and it takes wheaten food, beef, and mutton as the major dishes. There are a large variety of specialties and snacks to taste in Xian and popular snacks that tourists should not miss out include Roujiamo, Mutton Paomo, Dumpling Banquet, Guantang Steamed Buns, Shaozi Noodles, Clear Rice Noodles, and Xian Kebabs.
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Mutton & Bread ( Yang Rou Pao Mo ) | |
As the most famous and influencing snack of Xian, Mutton & Bread is renowned for its pure fragrance and pleasant tastes. You tear a pancake into small pieces and soak them in a bowl of the boiling mutton soup. The soaked pancake is chewy, the soup delicious, and the mutton tender. By taking a small bowl of broth after eating, you will feel abundant fragrance full of mouth and long lasting. |
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Qishan Saozi Noodle |
As early as the Qing Dynasty, Qishan Saozi Noodle was praised by the Emperor for its thin, flexible, shiny, fried, sour, hot and fragrant. The noodles are made of high-quality flour, together with pork, day lily, egg, tree mushroom, bean curd and garlic stem, and several flavoring. It has the tastes of sour and chili, and reserves fragrance in mouth after eating. |
Pancake with Stewed Lazhi Meat ( Chinese hamburger ) | |
It gained the name from the ancient Chinese "meat was nipped between pancake". The meat is more crisp, stewed and fresh. It contains abundant protein, fat. Together with the pancake, it is helpful to increase the content of carbohydrate. |
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Jiasan Guan Tang Bao (Chinese Soup Meat Dumpling) |
Guan Tang Bao is the well-known flavor snack in Xian, however, Jia San's Guan Tang Bao is the most famous of its kind. Thin skin, tender stuffing, fresh broth are its main characteristic. You could not taste its delicious only you have a try by yourself. At the end, don't forget take a bowl of eight treasure congee. |
Crystal Cake | |
Coming of Song Dynasty, Crystal Cake is a kind of traditional snack. It got the name because of its transparent and clear inside. It has beautiful appearance, tastes oily rather than greasy, and has thick fragrance of rose. It is the representative of Qin-style Snack, reputed as "the head of Qinstyle". |
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Steamer Pastry |
General Feng Yuxiang once praised steamer pastry as "the swallow dish of the civilian". It is the traditional breakfast food of Guangzhong Area. It is a type of sweet pastry made from glue rice and red jujube and gets its name as it is steamed in the steamer evolved from "Zeng", which is a kind of age-old kitchen utensil. It features thick fragrance of jujube and soft and sweet taste. |
Sanyuan Liaohua Sugar |
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Its original can be traced back to Ming Dynasty with a long history of 490 years. In 1900, Sanyuan Liaohua Sugar was offered to Queen mother Ci Xi as the tribute by Xian local official. Because its shape is the same as a kind of fruit named Liaohua in the plain, Ci Xi entitled it "Liaohua Sugar". It is in the shape of drumstick, and has a layer of white sesame in the golden-color surface, and the alveolation inner inside, so it tastes loose, sweet, soft, grisp and fragrant. |
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Huang Gui Shizi Cake |
Huang Gui Shizi Cake, also called Crystal Shizi Cake, is a flavor snack made of flour and persimmon. The persimmon is special of its kind produced in Lintong Country with the characteristic of orange-red flesh, much fruit powder, no-pit and juice. There are different taste s including sweetened bean paste, jujube mud, yellow laurel and rose, etc. It has golden color and luster, sticky and sweet coat, balmy smell. |
Guokui |
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Guokui, one of the eight bugbears in Shaanxi, looks like armet just as its name implied. It is usually renowned for being dry, crisp, white, fragrant. Originally, it was the gift the grandmother presented the grandson at his one-month old. Later, it developed into a kind of traditional foods made from flour. |
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Shaanxi Liang Pi |
At the mention of the original of Liang Pi, it can be traced back to Qin Dynasty. At that time Emperor Yingzheng applauded its soft, smooth, and flavorful sourness and piquancy, then appointed it as royal tribute. Soft husk assistant with vermeil cayenne oil, bean sprout as well as celery, it is absolutely delicate. You won't forget its sapor for life unless you take a taste. |
Popular Restaurants and bar:
Muslim StreetThe Muslim Street in Xian is a famous food street to taste various kinds of delicious Xian and Shaanxi food and snacks. The street has more than a thousand year’s history and it has a large variety of 300 snacks to taste. Food and snacks at Muslim Street are authentic and extremely tasty. There are Yangrou Paomo, Niurou Paomo, Fried rice with pickled Chinese cabbage and little capsicum, Roast beef, mutton or lamb, Steamed stuffed bun, Fruit pies made with persimmon, Preserved meat, Casserole, Syrup of plum, Rice and jujube cake, Northwest bean noodles in chili sauce, Ingredient noodles, and so on waiting for you to taste and enjoy.
Raindrops Restaurant |
The name gives you a good idea of what the food is like at Yuhua. The restaurant is elegantly decorated, and guests enjoy delicious Western food while gazing out at the beautiful night view over the district. The Great Wild Good Pagoda towers above outside the windows, whilst enjoying the view diners are invited to enjoy Foie Gras and delicious spaghetti complemented with classic red wine. The taste of the Mediterranean can be captured through the aroma of the spices and olive oil used to prepare the dishes. Add: East side of the Great Wild Goose Pagoda South Plaza, Yannan Lu, Yanta District, Xi'an |
Datang Yanle Healthy Food Restaurant
This is apparently the only restaurant in northwest China which focuses on providing a selection of the finest bird's nest dishes and other healthy foods which include healthy porridge and 'green' coffee. The bird's nests used are directly supplied from manufacturers, so there are no addictives or processes involved. This guarantees that the ingredients used are all natural tasting and organic. |
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Add: North side of the Great Wild Goose Pagoda South Plaza, Xi'an |
Guzhenhuang Hong Kong Restaurant |
This privately owned restaurant is named and decorated with unique preferences and identity in mind. Private dining rooms at the venue are decorated with authentic works of Salvador Dali and others. There are also some of the owner's private antique collections on display, making you feel like you're a guest in his study. The food and recipes at Guzhenhuang are kept unique to the venue and you will certainly not able to taste them anywhere else. Add: Tang-style Commercial & Cultural District (southeast side, Section A, No. B7), Yanta District, Xi'an |
De Fu Xiang For an after dinner relaxing yet romantic walk you can wander down De Fu Xiang where there are over twenty bars, cafes and tea houses. As you stroll along this street you will see the most unique names of bars and cafes such as Roman Holiday, Blue Heart and The Captain. De Fu Xiang is often compared to that of Beijing's Sanlitun and is known as the party central of Xi'an. Whether you are looking for a place to hang out and kick back to relax or are in search of the hottest party scenes, De Fu Xiang will have somewhere suitable for you. |
1+1 Disco Bar
1+1 is the most popular amongst the foreign community of Xi'an and no wonder with the very best music and the hottest dancers in town. The design of the place is chic and lavish and with its Disco Hall, Slow Bar, Champagne House and pool area in the courtyard you can live it up to the fullest. |
Moonkey Bar The Moonkey Bar is ideal for live music lovers and is known for regular performances from Chinese bands who are touring. The music is of Indie, Rock and Metal genre and is suitable for those who enjoy a bar with an alternative atmosphere. |