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Xi'an Specialty Snacks

Xi'an specialty snacks mainly include Shaanxi cold skin, meat buns, mutton buns, golden thread oil tower, gourd head, Jia San's dunking dumplings, water basin mutton, thousand-layer oil cake, buckwheat noodles, cauldron cake and meatballs and hoisin soup.

Shaanxi Liangpi

Shaanxi Liangpi everyone knows, this is a line of snacks, but also the traditional flavor of the food made of wheat flour. Shanxi Liangpi generally cold food to eat, because there are many kinds of production methods are different, mixing is also unique, so the flavor is very rich. Shaanxi cold skin has a long history, the selection of materials, rigorous process, flavoring, to "white, thin, light, soft, sinewy, fragrant" and famous throughout the country.

Meat bun

Meat bun is one of the most famous Xi'an snacks, there are many kinds of meat bun, Xi'an Baiji Bun's "bologna meat bun" is a big feature. Meat bun is actually "meat in the bun". Meat is generally used is preserved meat, the taste is extremely crispy, taste fresh long, fat meat is not greasy mouth, lean meat is not firewood not oil. The soup is made of boiled old soup, so that the flavor is authentic.

Mutton Buns

Mutton Buns are also known as lamb bubbles, is made of steamed buns, mutton made of a dish, especially Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, the most enjoyable beef and mutton buns fame. Mutton steamed buns cooking fine, material heavy flavor mellow, meat rotten soup thick, fat but not greasy, rich in nutrients, now mutton steamed buns is one of the representatives of Xi'an, Shaanxi snacks, many people to Xi'an must eat.

Golden thread oil tower

Golden thread oil tower is a traditional snack in Xi'an, the shape of which is "lifted up like a golden thread, put down like a pine tower," hence the name. Golden thread oil tower entrance loose moist and soft, oil but not greasy, rich in nutrients. Eating, such as with acidic pickles, sweet noodle sauce, green onions and white knots, with almond sweet syrup, it is more refreshing and appetizing, a unique flavor.

Hulutou

Many outsiders may not know what Hulutou is, in fact, Hulutou has a long history and is a famous snack in Xi'an. Because of the thick fat of the pig intestine, shaped like a gourd, so called gourd head. Hulutou distinctive features, bun white crystal, soft and smooth, tender meat soup fresh, fat but not greasy, mellow aroma, are generally eaten as breakfast.

Jia San's soup dumplings

Xi'an's soup dumplings are very popular, especially this Jia San soup dumplings, almost no one knows no one knows, absolute local specialty snacks. Jia San soup buns are mainly halal food, usually filled with beef and mutton. In order to suit the taste of more people, made a variety of flavors of filling, is one of the old Chinese food.

Shui Pan Mutton

Shui Pan Mutton has a longstanding reputation and is also known as June Fresh, which was developed from the "Mutton Soup" more than 1000 years ago. It is also known as "June Fresh" because it is available in the sixth month of the lunar calendar. Water basin mutton is to pick the bones of fresh mutton, mutton bone plus cinnamon, pepper, small fungus incense, fruits, salt, monosodium glutamate made, eat with baklava or white bread with food, accompanied by sugar and garlic, chili sauce, fresh garlic cloves, the meat is rotten soup, fat, not greasy, a distinctive flavor.

Thousand layer oil cake

Thousand layer oil cake is a special snack in Shaanxi. It is golden in color, distinctive layers, crispy but not crumbly, oily but not greasy, crispy and tasty. Legend has it that the shortbread is made from the thousand-layer pancake of the Tang Dynasty, which has been carefully improved by successive generations of chefs. It is made through the process of shortening, dough making, cake making and frying. Won the "Golden Tripod Award", "Chinese famous snacks" title.

Buckwheat noodles

Buckwheat noodles is a buckwheat noodles, mutton, potatoes, parsley and other main ingredients for the production of food. It is a famous traditional noodle snack in Shaanxi Province. Known as one of the three best northern noodle dishes, and Lanzhou Ramen, Shanxi knife-shaved noodles. Noodles made of buckwheat noodles, buckwheat in all cereals is known as the most nutritious food, buckwheat food on the balance of blood lipids, blood sugar metabolism plays an excellent regulatory role.

Retort Cake

The retort cake is a traditional snack unique to Xi'an and Guanzhong, made with glutinous rice, red dates or honey dates, red beans on the iron retort steaming. The steamer is an ancient Chinese steamer, and the sticky cake steamed in it has a unique flavor. Cake, good shape and color, moderately soft and hard, soft and sweet viscous strength, mellow flavor, winter and spring breakfast is really a good product, street vendors can often be seen selling rice cake vendors.

Meatballs and Spicy Soup

Meatballs and Spicy Soup is a snack in Xi'an, but also the Hui people's halal snacks, Spicy Soup is usually eaten as breakfast, the production of raw materials are mainly beef, potatoes, Lotus White and so on. Meatball Hoisin Soup is a Xi'an specialty, which is vegetable beef meatball soup, or beef meatball chowder, the soup should be thickened, the soup has round beef meatballs, cut into cubes of potatoes, lotus white, carrots, cauliflower, celery and so on. One of Xi'an's favorite breakfast.