Hui street in Xi 'an has a long history, which has a history of thousands of years. It is a famous food and cultural block in Xi 'an, and it is a must-see place for Xi 'an. Xi 'an Huimin Street is the collective name of many streets in Huimin block, which consists of Beiyuanmen, Beiguangji Street, Xiyangcheng and Dapiyuan.
Food introduction
Xi 'an has a strong northwest flavor, and Chinese hamburger, mutton bread in soup, cold rice noodles, Qishan noodles and dumpling feast are all famous in Shaanxi.
There are many restaurants in Xi 'an, and almost every street has several specialized mutton paomo restaurants, the most famous of which is undoubtedly Laosunjia mutton paomo. In addition, Tongshengxiang Beef and Mutton Paomo Hall and Xiguan Beef and Mutton Paomo Hall are also famous for a long time.
In addition to the night market in Nanshaomen and Dongxin Street, you can also go to the snack street behind the Drum Tower. There are antique buildings on both sides of the street, and various famous Xi snacks are available.
Characteristic restaurant
Laosunjia: West Section of Dongguan Street
Spring: No.20 South Yard Gate
Tongsheng Lane: Bell and Drum Tower Square
Sweet Tangke: No.215, Beiguangji Street
Jiasan soup dumpling shop: Xicheng West Section 12 1 (on the snack street behind Gulou)
Sanyuan Laohuangjia Xi 'an Branch: Wen Yi Road Jianshe West Street 16.
steamed dumplings
The main ingredients of glutinous rice balls are beef, mutton and ribs, and the meat is made of soup made of sheep bones and seasoning soup. After steaming, it has the characteristics of "the skin is as thin as paper, the stuffing is tender and contains soup, and the seasoning is fragrant". Jiasan soup dumpling is a famous Muslim snack in Xi 'an, which is famous for its big size and bright font size.
With the excellent national tradition and professionalism handed down from generation to generation, Jia San has created a series of delicacies named Jia San in the form of "soup" after three years of initial creation, five years of foundation laying, ten years of painstaking discovery and twenty years of continuous innovation. The value and significance of "Jia San's soup-filling bag" is not limited to filling the gap in Xi 'an Food Garden. His soup-filling bag contains many things that make the world think.
Traditional snacks are mostly bought and sold in the form of "topping the plate" and "bidding along the street", which has further developed into a shop and market structure of "making the pot bright and the stove bright" and "putting the store in front and the home behind", while Jia San's glutinous rice balls have entered the market with the marketing ideas of "collectivization" and "industrialization". Jia San has his own professional research team, marketing planning team and industrial development team. It can be said that Jia San is famous for filling soup packets in the world, and at the same time gives them unlimited value and significance. Based on the traditional theory of China culture, Jia San made an infinite career with a small soup bag.
Throughout the national snack industry, we will find that there are many kinds of snacks in Xi 'an, with all kinds and many patterns, but not many of them really have the characteristics of Xi 'an. Most of them are domestic, rough and omnivorous marketing varieties, lacking snack brands with distinctive personality and excellent quality. Jia San is a wonderful flower in Xi 'an Snack Garden, which is both real and independent. He not only showed the regional characteristics of Xi snacks, but also showed the characteristics of Xi muslim food culture.
Walking into the antique street in the courtyard gate of Xi 'an North, a Hui community, between the quaint archway and the corridor, you will easily find the golden signboard of "Jia Sanguantang Steamed Bun", and you will feel warm and thoughtful faces. There are many inscriptions and photos of celebrities and famous artists you are familiar with hanging on the four walls of the store; At this time, you will be surprised to find that almost all celebrities in the country have visited and tasted "Jia San Guan Tang Bao Zi"; And you will find that in Jia San's marketing ideas, cultural taste and cultural character occupy a large proportion. Only in the store of "Jiasanguantang Steamed Buns" can you really discover the culture of steamed buns and the steamed buns of culture.
[1] Beef and mutton paomo
Known as "a must in Shaanxi", its history can be traced back to BC 1 1 century, and there is a saying in the Book of Songs that "friends drink and kill lambs". The mutton bread in soup is full of fragrance and endless aftertaste, which is praised by many international friends who come to Xi 'an. Beef and mutton bread in soup is almost recognized as the best snack in Xi 'an (the most widely spread and unique). Eating paomo, Xi 'an's old diners pay attention to going to Huimin Square. Sometimes, in an ordinary small shop, the big bowl is full of fragrance.
Paomo pays attention to broken hands. When you enter the Paomo Pavilion, you should serve two or three steamed buns, wash your hands, find a place to sit down and break up carefully. It's called steamed bread, but it's actually half-cooked bread, two by two, with white flour, cooked well and half-cooked. Put the famous big old bowl in Shaanxi on your knees, first divide the cake into several pieces, and then slowly knead it into pieces the size of a small fingernail. After it is broken, rub it with your hands a few times to let the powder attached to the fragments fall off, so that the cooked steamed stuffed bun will be thick and juicy. Then clamp the number with a clamp and take it to the master for processing. As soon as the discerning master saw this break-off, he knew that the old diners who could make steamed buns came, and they would make steamed buns with extra care.
The pace of life is getting faster and faster now. Most paomo restaurants keep pace with the times, adding a blender, which can quickly process steamed buns into even small pieces. Most young people like this improvement. But the old diners always scoff at this processing method-the steamed stuffed bun made with great efforts, the cross section torn by hand increases the contact area with the soup, and it will be more delicious, so as to be worthy of the old soup.
Cooked with steamed buns, sparerib vermicelli and several large pieces of braised mutton, the mutton is fresh, tender, crisp and rotten, with a fragrant smell. Most butcher shops have more than a dozen water tanks half buried in the backyard soil, which are soups boiled with various secret seasonings. First, soak the prepared chunks of raw beef and mutton in the soup for about two days, then take them out of the old soup in a large iron pot and add more than a dozen seasonings to cook together. When the meat is cooked to six or seven degrees, put a wooden shelf on the same pot, put the meat on it from the soup, change it to slow fire, cover the pot and steam overnight. Steamed meat can be used to make steamed buns the next morning. Cook the meat steamed gravy, after blending, is the soup base used when cooking steamed buns. How can the meat made in this way not be crispy and delicious?
When the cooked steamed stuffed bun was served on the table, there was no hot air, but the bowl felt very hot. Poke it in the corner with chopsticks, and the hot air comes to the nose. There is a layer of oil floating on the top of the bowl, which seals the aroma of hot air. This is a wonderful heat preservation method invented by Xi people. You can't stir the steamed stuffed bun. You should always put them in your mouth with chopsticks along the edge of the bowl, otherwise the soup will leak out and the hot air will run away. A real foodie, a bowl of steamed bread burns his mouth at the end.
Snack information
Xi mirror cake: a traditional snack in Shaanxi, steamed from glutinous rice and looks like a round mirror. Most of the mirror cakes are vendors. There is a poem in the Qing Dynasty: "As time goes by under the willow shade tree, the mirror cake is fragrant." Before entering Huimin Street, there were many cars selling mirror cakes under the Drum Tower. Mirror cakes are placed in very small cages with red and green spices on them. When you want to eat them, you will dip them in sesame seeds and sugar.
Gold thread oil tower: it is named after the continuous winding of gold thread and the overlapping of towers. When eaten, it is supplemented with scallion, sweet noodle sauce and almond syrup, which has a unique flavor.
Sour plum soup: it should be a bit far-fetched to say that Xi' an's snacks are sold in many homes in Huimin Street, and most of them are directly cooked by plums bought by the owner himself.
Disc cake: also known as crystal dragon and phoenix cake. Taking glutinous rice and red dates as raw materials, they are alternately stacked and spread in three or four layers. Steam over low and high fires. Bright color, red and white, sticky and sweet. It is a traditional breakfast food in Guanzhong area, a sweet cake made of glutinous rice and red dates.
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