The most characteristic food in Xian is flour-made food which is in a moderate price and enough quantity. Roujiamo, Mutton Paomo, Biangbiang noodle is the gourmet food that can not to be missed when you visit to Xian. In this article, Top China Travel will list information about famous snacks and where to eat.
Famous Mutton or Beef Paomo Restaurant
• The Suns Restaurant
Address: 364, Dongdajie, Xian
Signature Dishes: Mutton or beef Paomo, Roasted lamb leg, Muslim diet
The Suns Restaurant was founded in 1898, is a century-old restaurant in Xian. Because of its long history and ole-brand reputation, this restaurant was awarded the National Restaurant of hundred enterprises for three consecutive years in 2000, 2001 and 2002. The Suns Restaurants was also awarded by China Cuisine Association of China Famous Restaurant in 2002 and awarded the China Class 5A Green Hotel in 2004.
It was originally a restaurant which mainly provided the cake soaked in mutton or beef soup. In 1991, the first reformation of this restaurant had made it add another style of meal – the Muslim diet. And the second reformation came in 1997, this time The Suns Restaurant aimed to enlarge the boundary of its Muslim meal. It imported more Muslim diet which could be eaten in the western part of China. Since 1998, the restaurant put the focus on the material that used in the food. Besides the original meat such as mutton and beef, it also took the meat of ostrich and some other material during its third reformation.
After these three reformations, The Suns Restaurant now is operating characteristics with strong western steamed bread beef and mutton, halal dishes and snacks while the famous western nation at home and abroad.
Restaurant has been committed to promoting halal food in Western culture. All dishes have won national gold award. In this restaurant, you can have a taste to the Xian famous food, such as cakes soaked in mutton or beef soup and roast lamb ribs this comfortable environment.
• Chunfasheng Restaurant
Address: No.20, South Gate of Yard, Beilin District, Xian
Signature Dishes: Hu Lutou bubble bread, Blessing bubble bread banquet
Chunfasheng Restaurant was established in 1920. It is famous for its genuine "Hu Lutou bubble bread", the main material of this food is pig tripe, and it is soaked in the delicious soup, the sweet taste and unique cooking process gained many customers since it had found. The name of this restaurant "Chunfasheng" is given by a scholar after tasting this special Xian food. From that, business began to flourish.
Current Hu Lutou bubble bread soaked in soup is the result of the ceaseless amelioration on the bases of Tang Dynasty. Its soup is thick and delicious. The bread is fragrant and the meat is tender. "Mentioned Hu Lutou, slobber is drooling" is the best witness of its dainty. Hu Lutou bubble bread is a high saturated fatty acid, high cholesterol, high-carbohydrate food. By adding some seafood, you can increase the nutrition. Today, the restaurant variety has been developed to multiple Hu Lutou bubble bread, such as seafood Hu Lutou, squid Hu Lutou, special Hu Lutou,pot Hu Lutou etc.. And in 1997, Chunfasheng Restaurant Hu Lutou bubble bread was awarded by the China Cuisine Association with the title of the first Chinese name snacks.
Famous Roujiamo Restaurant
• Qinyu Roujiamo
Add: No.19 of East Wood Market, Beilin District, Xian
Signature Dishes: Roujiamo
This restaurant is very famous and delicious which always ranked the top 5, and it was praised as the “best” Roujiamo in Xian. Roujiamo here is really big and filled with lots of meat, paired with classical bean vermicelli soup, it is perfect. This restaurant is only open in the morning and close after noon. So if you want to eat there you must go there early.
• Wangkui Sauce Cured Meat Roujiamo
Add: The Eight Immortals Nunnery in Dongguan Changlefang, Beilin District, Xian
Signature Dishes: Cured Meat Roujiamo
Recommended reason: The flavor is the same as in the old time, the steamed buns are freshly made and they are crispy. The sauce cured meat is fat but not greasy, eating with steamed bun which is suitable and delicious. And when you eat it, you can order a Shaozi noodle together, these two dishes make up the special Shaanxi set meal.
Famous Dumpling Banquet Restaurant
• Defachang Dumpling Restaurant
Address: Bell and Drum Towers Square, Xian
Signature Dishes: Dumpling banquet
Defachang founded in 1936 in Xian, is a long history of national super restaurant, China Green Hotel 5A level restaurant, China commercial brand-name enterprises. Operating area of 4847 square meters, with style fast food restaurants, banquet halls and more than 30 luxury rooms, it can accommodate 1,200 people at the same time.
Today, China catering area, Defachang is one of the largest and highest restaurants to provide grade flavor characteristics dumplings feasts, fine cuisine of the franchise stores. Defachang Dumpling banquet is in the early eighties of last century in the dumplings package, on the basis of experts and technical staff of unremitting efforts.
As an old and famous restaurant enjoying a high reputation both at home and abroad, this national special-class restaurant is the largest of its kind in China with the most varieties of dumplings, as well as an exclusive restaurant of new-style Shanghai cuisine. Each dumpling served at Dumpling Banquet has its distinctive shape and taste.
The restaurant also provides Qishan Roast Duck, Huanggui Rice Wine, steamed buns with shrimp stuffing, and many delicious dished, such as hundred-flower fish maw, swallows returning the nest, peach kernels and pigeon eggs, phoenix peonies, and so on. Huanggui Rice Wine, which is brewed according to an imperial recipe and a traditional way of the Xu family, is jade-white, aromatic, mellow and tasty.
Famous Steamed Stuffed Bun Restaurant
• Jiasan Steamed Stuffed Bun Restaurant
Address: 93, Beiyuanmen, Xian
Signature Dishes: Steamed stuffed buns
Jiasan Steamed Stuffed Bun Restaurant is a famous Muslim diet technician in Shaanxi Province. Mr. Jia San promote ethnic traditional food skills, research and absorb the Muslim north and south of the advantages of snacks after the Creation. Subsequently, several others to follow and gradually form a Muslim name of the ancient city of Xian snacks. Among the public at home, Jiasan Steamed Stuffed Bun is unique flavor, it is thin as paper, stuck with soup tender, fragrant spices. All of us called Special Person, as the ancient city of the first cage.
Jiasan Steamed stuffed bun is a delicious food, superb quality and consummate skill to win public praise. From the civilian population to the Scholars were praise of it, Jiasan steamed stuffed bun was praised as the best food to eat, is the wonderful food products. Jiasan steamed stuffed buns was the country most popular food in 1993 by the National Ministry of Light Industry in Beijing and 1997 has been the cause of China's famous brand in China Development Review Center as brand-name foods.
Jiasan steamed stuffed bun is made of fine materials with sophisticated technology. Bun has been filling soup which is only on the package before filling in the aspic, wrapped by the steam cage after steaming, aspic of open but does not leak. Usually they use beef and mutton as stuffing and white flour as the skin. Not only taste good, but also the high calcium content, long-term consumption can nourish physical, highly nutritional value.
Famous Biangbiang Noodle Restaurant
• Biangbiang Noodle Restaurant (Nanyuan Branch)
Address: No.80 of South Gate of Yard, Beilin District, Xian (In the opposite of Chunfasheng Restaurant)
Signature dishes: Biangbiang Noodle
Biang is a character created by the Shaanxi people that can not find in dictionary. The noodle of the restaurant is the authentic flavor of Shaanxi. The noodles are soft, long, thick, pliable and smooth. People who like noodle would like this Biangbiang Noodle. The meat in noodle is less, though the noodle quantity is large. This restaurant is quite smalll. Recommended noodle is three-in-one noodle that consist of Saoai noodle, tomato with egg and fried bean sauce. The soup is thick with sweet flesh. And other type of noodle is also good, like cured meat noodle. This noodle has enough minced meat, and taste good but is a bit salty.
Famous Liangpi Restaurant
• Wei’s Liangpi (South Street Branch)
Address: No.3 of South Street, Beilin District
Signature Dish: Lianpi
Wei’s Liangpi is a chain Liangpi restaurant which spread over Xian. Liangpi here has two kinds of tastes, one is secret-made and another is sesame paste taste. Secret-made Liangpi is thin but taste chewier and more ingredients, in addition to the common cucumbers, there is broccoli, tripe, and so on. The chili oil is very hot and delicious; Sesame paste Liangpi is tender and elastic with moderate pepper.
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