Local Food A good night-food street is DongxinJie between Jiefang Lu and Zhongshan
Gate. Much of the local street food is of Islamic origin, and some
common dishes are: fenzhengrou, made by frying chopped mutton in
a work with fine-ground wheat; dark brown sorghum or buck wheat
noodles called For Muslim-Chinese 'haute cuisine' tries the 3rd-floor section of Laosunjia Restaurant on the corner of Duanlumen and Dond Dajie. It's opposite the Friendship Store and is readily identified by its green dome roof with an Islamic moon-crescent on top. They serve a delicious local hotpot called shuanguozi, made by dipping uncooked meat and vegetable slices into a boiling chafing dish. For western foods, you can select Small World Restaurant at the
outside of Jianguo Gate 300m eastern of Heping Gate. Kentucky Fried
Chicken Chains can be noticed in all main streets in downtown area.
Coffee Language is a world chain coffee, lies in Gaoxin Rd. The cheap downstairs restaurant in the May First Hotel is good for staple northern-China food like pork dumpling and hearty bowls of noodles. It's popular with locals and always busy. Upstairs is a more up market restaurant with an English menu listing 'barbecued gourd in honey' and other delicacies. The East Asia Restaurant was founded in 1916 in Shanghai, but moved
to Xi'an in 1956. The restaurant's better sections on the 2nd and
3rd floors have arguably the city's best Chinese cuisine. The East
Asia is southeast of Bell tower at 46 Luoma Shi, a lane running
off Dong Dajie. The Xi'an Restaurant is at 298 Dong Dajie. In the cheap section downstairs, the house specialty is a salty fried dumpling called 'guotie'. Upstairs is geared mainly to banquets, but they also have a section for general guests with a shorter menu in English. The food ranges from mediocre to outstanding. If you believe their blurb, the Qujiangchun Restaurant at 192 Jiefang Lu specializes in 'Tang Dynasty cuisine ' and has waiters in costume. |
heluotiao;
and migao, deep-fried rice cakes with s sweet rose-water filling.
