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What are the famous snacks in Xi'an?

Xi'an Snacks and Desserts Xi'an is known for its many varieties of snacks and flavors, and now the Xi'an Dining Hall and the Peace Hotel have launched a bold and innovative Xi'an snack banquet, which is rich in content and colorful, and inherits the traditional operating techniques, beautiful modeling, and different tastes of salty, sweet, sour, spicy, fresh, and fragrant. The banquet brings together the essence of traditional snacks of Shaanxi, together with several famous dishes in the Shaanxi cuisine, accompanied by "drunken wine fairy" Huang Gui thick wine to help cheer up, and eat it is a great success! Persimmon Pudding The main ingredients are soft persimmons and flour. It is a kind of Guanzhong region's specialty soft persimmons as the main ingredient, and flour cooked into a flavorful snack. Its main flavor characteristics are crispy outer skin, soft inner flesh and sweet taste. Guifei Cake The main ingredients of Guifei Cake are rich and strong flour, refined oil, sugar, walnuts, sesame seeds and jujube paste, etc. It has a history of more than 1,000 years. It has a history of more than 1000 years. The finished product is shaped like a full moon, milky white in color, with thin skin and sufficient filling, crispy and fluffy, salty and sweet, oily but not greasy, and is a traditional food that began in the Tang Dynasty. Originally, it was made by the royal chef of the Li Palace for Yang Yuhuan, the beloved concubine of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, and was loved by Yang Guifei, and later spread to the people, who called it "Guifei Cake". Hu Ma Cake Hu Ma Cake is a vegetarian food made of special powder, vegetable oil, sesame and Tian Zhong Cao as the main ingredients. As early as in the Eastern Han Dynasty, it developed into a popular convenience food in the Tang Dynasty. According to legend, when Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty and Yang Guifei fled to Xianyang during the Anshi Rebellion, they bought houma cakes to satisfy their hunger. The famous poet Bai Juyi also likes to eat this food. It is characterized by crispness, oil flavor, moderate saltiness, and rich nutrition. Shepherd's purse spring rolls The ingredients and production process of shepherd's purse spring rolls are unique. In addition to water and flour, egg whites are added to the spring roll skin to increase the crispiness of the spring rolls. Production process, the flour mixed into a thin paste, and then spoon the batter "spread" into the flat griddle baked skin, the thinness of the skin spread, enough to reflect the mastery of Chinese culinary arts. It is characterized by a skin as thin as a cicada's wing, transparent and crispy, and tastes like a rich local flavor. Honey Cold Rice Dumplings Honey Cold Rice Dumplings are made from glutinous rice and honey, and are famous in Sanqin for their cool, sweet and refreshing flavor. The practice is to make the dumplings from glutinous rice, cut them into 10-minute round shapes, and then sprinkle them with honey when they are cool enough to be eaten. It is even better in summer. Empress Dowager Cake Empress Dowager cake is a famous snack in Fuping County with a history of more than 2000 years. It is made of oil, flour and seasonings, and then baked and cooked. It is characterized by golden crust, oily and crispy, soft inner layer, salty and fragrant, and rich in animal fat acid and other nutrients. Deep-fried noodle cake Deep-fried noodle cake has a history of more than 2,000 years in China, which was born with the "cold food festival" in ancient times, also known as "cold utensils", and is said to have been made in memory of Jie Zi Tui in the Spring and Autumn Period. Xi'an deep-fried noodle cakes are shaped like wood, golden in color, thin and hollow in heart, with a loud sound when chewing and crispy like snow, which are not only the snacks of flavor, but also the famous and valuable snacks at banquets. The main raw materials are flour, oil, brown sugar and so on. Zhuangli He'er cake Zhuangli He'er cake because of the main production Zhuangli area, the umbilical cord relative to the two one together and named for the province's one of the famous food. Tip persimmons as raw materials, after a number of manual kneading and frosting into the shape of a millstone. It is characterized by large, moist, thick frost, bright bottom, sweet taste, dissolved in tea, with rich nutritional value. Xi'an snacks are famous for noodles, more famous beef and mutton steamed buns, meat buns, braised sesame food, buckwheat buckwheat, noodles, soup dumplings, pot helmets, gourd head, etc., meat rotten soup, mellow flavor, the entrance to the viscous tough and slippery. Dessert category has honey cool dumplings, yellow osmanthus persimmon cake, mirror cake, cold cake, etc., cool sweet aroma, refreshing the lungs, is the ideal summer food. Xi'an snack street any made out of preserved beef and mutton, beef and mutton steamed buns, meat buns ...... are very authentic. And unlike Beijing's Wangfujing - taste and not to mention, the signboards are very large, shouting loudly. Xi'an snack street, are hidden under the tall buildings and shade of an ancient street, the road is not familiar with the outsiders is difficult to find. Xi'an snacks look very rough, like the culture of the city. Street side set up a table, support a few chairs, can be, a bit like stalls, civilized people may be a bit unacceptable: clean? Is it edible? I see is any store, regardless of whether it is not meal time, always bustling, not lively. Northwest Hanzi, pay attention to is affordable, pull over the chair will eat, just figure a pain. Shopkeeper special simplicity, the real price, do not haggle, three buns of mutton buns to be oversized porcelain bowl to sheng, like a small basin, enough to eat my small stomach for three days. Xi'an snacks "packaging" is basically very ordinary, even the famous Jia San soup dumplings, dining environment is not exquisite, noisy crowd, extremely simple tables and chairs, to my initial impression is not good, I thought I was deceived. Wanted a cage of buns and a bowl of eight-treasure congee, simple fellow, with the customer to eat first, eat half of the list to come back to fill in, and then inserted into the table on the clip, after the meal check out, does not seem to worry about who play tricks. That ordinary porcelain bowl of eight treasures congee, wolfberries, cinnamon, lotus seeds, rice, boiled into a thick amber color, sweet and refreshing, even I usually do not drink congee (drink less), froze and drank a big bowl. Xi'an snacks, even if it is very simple casserole, rice noodles, all with enough effort, absolutely no water to cook out to cope with the people, soup are thick enough and fragrant enough old soup, tofu skin cooked in the soup, coupled with the freshness of the seaweed flavor, is a masterpiece, and absolutely affordable. As with people, there are looks, personalities, and of course, strengths. The first impression of each city is its looks, such as Beijing's big and magnificent, Shanghai's broad and diversified, Hangzhou's beautiful and Ana. But where the city is known to the world, more have or natural or humanistic symbols, in the process of human civilization, they undoubtedly constitute a cultural monument.