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Xi'an Cuisine
Xi'an has a long history in culinary culture and has developed a unique cuisine with two culinary styles-the traditional and the modern. The traditional is characterized by the Tang Dynasty cuisine while the modern by the Shaanxi cuisine. The traditional recipes include such delicacies as Roast Piglet and Chicken in Bottle Gourd. The local flavour snacks include Steamed Bun Soaked in Mutton Soup and the Fan-Family Cured Meat Broth. Dumpling banquet and Tang Dynasty banquet in Xi'an are two great inventions.
Xi'an cuisine has a good, hearty style that should never let you leave the table hungry. Noodles and dumplings are the staples of the local food and these are almost always filling and warming.
Xi'an diet culture is rich in the Northwest flavor; it is indeed one of a major enjoyable in tasting Xian local snacks. As noodles and dumplings , which are always filling and warming, are the staples of the local food
Yangrou Paomo is a tasty Xi'an specialty that consists of a mutton soup served with wheat flour flat bread. The hard bread is broken up and added to the soup. Then the mixture is eaten along with pickled garlic cloves.
Yet another interesting culinary experience to be had in Xi'an is the Xi'an Dumpling Feast. This concept, introduced in 1984 by the Xi'an Dumpling Feast Restaurant on Jiefang Road, offers up to 108 different kinds of Chinese dumpling (Jiaozi). Also worth trying are the Defachang Restaurant and the Baiyunzhang Northwest Style Snack Restaurant.
Some other Xi'an snacks and special dishes include: Sour Soup Dumplings and Guantang Steamed Baozi.
Three famous Xi'an specialties:
Dumpling Banquet
Dumpling or Jiaozi in Chinese is a traditional and popular food in China, especially in the north. At the banquet, nearly 20 varieties of dumplings that are steamed and stuffed with different delicious fillings such as vegetables, meats and seafood are served, these dumplings are not only tasty, but also characteristic with their colors and fragrance, style and culture meanings, all these make the dinner so unique that you should not miss it when traveling in Xi'an.
The most famous venues for the dumpling banquets are Defachang restaurant, also Tang Dynasty Palace and Shaanxi Grand Opera Theatre where dumpling banquets can be combined with Tang Dynasty show.
Tang Dynasty Banquet
Tang Dynasty was one of the most prosperous dynasties and an open era in Chinese history, there were lots of exchanges between China and outside world, as a result, the culinary culture including the imperial cuisine was inevitably enriched. 
Shaanxi people have tried to research the imperial cuisine of Tang Dynasty making it possible for you to taste typical dishes of Tang Dynasty in some of the restaurants in Xi'an. These dishes are not only tasty, colorful and fragrant with well-selected materials, but also full of cultures and legends with ancient styles.
Tang Dynasty Banquet is in the style of Tang cuisines, which is one of the most three famous things in eating (the other two are Jiaozi Banquets and Mutton Paomuo respectively) in Xi'an. The dishes in the banquets are diverse and plentiful and with special flavor. To partake of the banquet is something different from the other banquets. The waitresses who serve beside the tables in the Tang Dynasty Banquet have to wear Tang-style garments, and their buns are highly coiled up, they look very beautiful. The dishware and goblets on the tables are all imitated the Tang-styles. When the banquet is getting under way, a eunuch (not a true eunuch) with a horsetail whisk in his one hand proclaims the imperial decree to explain the purpose. Then the royal band plays the tuneful ancient music, and at this moment the toasters begin to drink a toast to each other. When a dish is served, its name is read aloud by a Tang Dynasty officer, and then he explains the cultural attraction of this dish. During the banquet, The Tang-style music and dance are performed, and Tang poems are recited. The wine served in the banquet is Huanggui dense wine, which was ever drunk by Lipo (a very famous poet in Tang Dynasty) and Concubine yang (the most caressant concubine by emperor Li long-ji). The dishes, pastries and soup are cooked by an ancient menu called cooking cauda banquet menu which was written by Wei Ju-yuan, and the dishes on the banquet tables are all the dishes which ever served for one of the Tang Dynasty emperors, Li xian (A.D.656??710).
The most famous venues for the Tang Dynasty banquets are Tang Dynasty Palace and Shaanxi Grand Opera Theatre where Tang Dynasty banquets can be combined with Tang Dynasty show. 
Yangroupaomo (Steamed Bun Soaked in Mutton Soup)
The way of preparing the dish has made you interested already before it is ready to serve: first a bowl and one or two pieces of flat bread will be served, you need to break the bread into tiny chunks all by yourself, and after that, delicious mutton soup will be added in the bowl, now, it is ready for you to enjoy the broth and the break.
kabobs
Travel in Xi'an you can taste many flavorful roasts such as the Brazilian cabobs, Japanese roasted meat, South Korea broiler and Turkey fried meat. But we give the local Xi'an kabobs a plug because they are inexpensive and palatable.
Xi'an kabobs were introduced from Xinjiang in many years ago but they are very different 
from the Xinjiang kabobs in flavor. Besides with the cumin powder they also with some chili powder and other many condiments so they taste a little hot. The meat such as mutton, beeves, pork, fish, kidneys, and so on can be the raw materials of the Xi'an kabobs. They taste crisp and tender, look oily but not greasy. When eating the kabobs, most travelers like drinking beer or soda water, undoubtedly, this is a not bad choice. You can try it when you visit this city.
To enjoy the kabobs, you can go to the Huis (nationality) Street or the street near the Drum Tower where the night market are very busy, many people often gather there to eat these tasty foods.
Qianxian Guo Kui
There is a literary quotation of Guo Kui that in the period of Qianling Mausoleum 
construction, due to the tremendous project, numerous labors, there is no time having lunch. Gradually, the labors learnt to bake round cake with helmets. Therefore, named ??Guo Kui??.It is circular in shape with thick center and thin verge like a wheel. And it is easy to be stored and handy for that the wheat flour is mixed with a minimum amount of water and baked over low flame while making, so little moisture carries. Now Guo Kui has been regarded as one of the ??Ten Strange Features?? in Central Shaanxi.
Qishan Noodles originated in Qishan County and hence it is named after the county name
. They have a long history and became far-famed as early as the Qing Dynasty (A.D.1616-1911). The noodles must be made from light purified flour. They are thin, pliable, smooth, hot, watery, greasy, sour, spicy and savory. The Ingredients Include minced pork, dried lily flowers, eggs, Auricularia auricular, bean curd, garlic stems and many condiments. Qishan noodles with High carbohydrate, high saturated fatty acid, and high nutritive value. If you want to taste this food, please go to the Xi'an Yongming Qishan Noodles Restaurant because it enjoys a very high reputation in Xi'an.
Chopped Buckwheat Noodles are Buckwheat flour noodles chopped by knife. Buckwheat
is one of good minor cereals of Northern Shaanxi Province. The cereal is high-protein and low-fat, and with high vitamin contents. It is very nutritious. Shaanxi people use this cereal make many traditional foods. Among them, the Chopped Buckwheat Noodles are the most popular. They can intenerate vein, protect the vision, reducing fever, reduce pathogenic fire, promote digestion, and prevent the blood vessel of brain from hemorrhage. It is extolled as "long-life" noodles.
The noodles can be served either hot or cold. If it is served cold, flavor it with salt, vinegar, mustard, garlic sauce and hot chili. If it is served hot, warm it up in the hot soup and scoop it up and top it with stir-fried vegetables and meat. Chopped Buckwheat noodles taste a little bitter but delicious and they are beneficial all the year round for its antipyretic nature.
Liangpi (cold noodles) is a famous summer snack (also sold in winter) in Xi??an. This
snack is made from wheat flour (or other starch). It looks translucent and tastes cold, and known for its white color, thin shape, smooth surface, pliable texture, tender and savory taste. It is eaten along with garlic, ginger, pepper, sauce, vinegar, bean sprouts, capsicum flour, salt, sliced cucumber, caraway, chicken essence, sesame oil etc. Male is not so interested in this delicious snack, but female is crazy about it, especially the nice girls and the elder women who have past their prime.
Hulutou
Hulutou is a sort of broth with intestines and tripe inside, which is so popular in Xian. The 
special way of cooking was first created by Sun Simiao, a well-known doctor in the Tang Dynasty. And he imparted the secret recipe into an restaurant owner in Chang??an with a bottle gourd of medicine for the flavoring. The owner, based on the recipe as well some innovations made, created present Broth with Intestines and Tripe that lasted for thousands of years.
Concerning the method in details, the selected materials are intestine and before serving, we customer has to tear up pancake then the chef soaks in the boiling bone soup for three or four times with pork intestine, tripe, chicken, sea cucumber and squid on the very top. Still more, the lard and vegetables added and while offering the preserved garlic and chili jam followed.
Fan's Pancake Cured Meat
It is a traditional Shaanxi delicacy that pancakes of high-quality wheat flour filled with cured meat. A story related to the origination could be traced back to Tang Dynasty. To express gratitude of being imbursed by an official "Fan", an orphan who had been got success in the business of cured meat, presented a delicate-designed Chinese prickly ash wood coffin with about 250 kilograms of lean meat hidden inside on Fan??s 80th birthday. But for a busy day, nobody pay any attention to it until ten years later when Fan died, the family were all in hot water immediately, there was no way of living but selling property. Finally they found the fresh fragrant cured meat that sold well and attracted more people. And more newly delicious meat was made by putting fresh meat into the original soup is OK. As time went by, it became more famous around.
Xian Huanggui Persimmon Pancakes
To make the best use of the Lintong fire-crystal persimmon, Huanggui persimmon 
pancakes become a specialty in Xian. Mixed with wheat flour, osmanthus sause, rose-petals, walnuts and sugar, then be baked until golden-colored on both sides. There is an interesting story about its origin that in 1644 while Li Zicheng, a peasant rebel leader, occupied Xian and claimed king. As his amy started to attack Beijing, the locals wanted to give something but nothing could provide due to the great famine except for some persimmon pancakes that were very much hungry-resistant. With improved cooking method, the present pancake turn out to be a delicacy soft and tasty.
The eight-treasure rose mirror cake is a traditional Moslem sweet cake for breakfast, which has more than one ?Chundred- year history in Xi'an and is famous for its inviting color and aroma. This food is made from sticky rice, brown sugar, and Osmanthus sugar. When the cake being eaten it is dipped with the black sesame seeds and rose ketchup.
Tea is a very common drink in China, but in different parts of this country this drink with its special local color. In Xi'an, people like drinking oil tea. When boiling tea, the wheat flour 
and all kinds of condiments are mixed up and put into the boiling water slowly. Then the almond, benniseed, the long-shaped, sauce, salt flour, pepper, and monosodium glutamate are put into the boiling tea soup at a simmer and stirred until the color becomes yellow. When the tea soup thickens up it is poured into a big tea Kettle for drink. Kettle oil tea is a very excellent refreshant and the local people and many travelers are keen on it very much.
If one wants to taste all the special local food at one time, the Xian Restaurant, Xian Fan Zhuang in Chinese, would be the wonderful choice where more than 100 different kinds of delicacies are offered by the self-service restaurant on the first-floor. As well as indoor enjoyment, evening market of the Moslem Street of the east lightly in the south, can also go snack street right behind the drum-tower, that with archaic-styled constructions on both sides. On the 500-meter street, there are many restaurants of different cuisines along with unique snack shops. While enjoying true Muslim cuisine, tourists can learn customs of the Hui people. In a word, local-featured food are permeated here everywhere.
As a popular saying that Xian is a legendary as the ??capital of table delicacies??where provides a wide range selections in front of the people at home and abroad.
Western food
Paying a visit of Xi'an you may look for western food. Don't worry about that you can not find a good western restaurant. In Xi'an there are dozens of western restaurants offer western foods besides the hotels we recommend on our website. In your free time when visiting this city you can hang around on Dongdajie (East Street) where there are many western restaurants, also on the northwestern outskirts of the city near the Flats FLOURISHINGINGIR National Hotel The Royal Kithen of Emperor Qin Pizza Hut Orr Gunther Mcdonald's Il Satiro Danzante Italian Restaurant - Bar Pizzeria
In Xi'an, most of western restaurants offer both veg and non-veg menus in a spotless and non-smoking ambience. You can find restaurants of all the major countries of the world offering ethnic foods. The restaurants specialize in Indian, North American, South American, French, Japanese and Italian gastronomy.
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