Food map of eight Chinese gold medal tourism snack food in Shaanxi

The awards ceremony of the First Chinese Gold Medal Tourism Snack Food was held in Beijing on November 18, 2016. A total of 200 kinds of gold medal tourism snacks were selected. Among them, 8 kinds of Shaanxi snacks were listed. Li Jinzao, Head of the National Tourism Administration attended the ceremony and presented awards to the representatives. For the convenience of the visitors to taste, we introduced this food map of the eight gold medal tourism snacks.

Xi’an Lao Sun’s Pita Bread Soaked in Lamb Soup

One of the most famous “China time-honored brand” in Xi’an.

Patrons were always packed everyday in the store of Xi’an Lao Sun’s Pita Bread Soaked in Lamb Soup. Here you carefully break the buns, and taste the delicious bread in the soup slowly, at the same time, you also can product out the other side of the famous historical and cultural city of Xi’an.

Lao Sun’s Pita Bread Soaked in Lamb Soup is characterized by heavy pure soup, fresh taste, smooth, bright, fragrance waft of steamed buns, without aftertaste, and warm the stomach.

Address：

1. 5th floor of Yiya BOX Fashion Shopping Center, northwest corner of Duanlv Gate, East Street, Beilin District, Xi’an

2. No.78 East Guanzheng Street, Beilin District, Xi’an

3. No.51 Xiyangshi, Lianhu District, Xi’an

4. Lechao Food Palace, crossroad of Fengchengsi Road and Weiyang Road, Weiyang District, Xi’an

5. Southwest corner of the cross of Shenzhousi Road and Feitian Road, Chang’an District, Xi’an.

Xi’an Fan’s Pancakes Cured Meat

The meat clip buns is an extremely Shaanxi local flavor snack, which almost became a business card of Xi’an. When you talk about the meat clip buns, people naturally will think of Shaanxi Province and Xi’an, and Fan's Pancakes Cured Meat is the most famous and with the longest history in Xi’an.

Fan’s Pancakes Cured Meat was founded during the Emperor Guangxu Years (1904) of the late Qing Dynasty, with more than one hundred years of history. Since the founder, Fan Bingren accidentally got the secret recipe from the imperial kitchen of Dowager Empress Cixi, the three gerations of Fan family kept on improving the ancestral secret recipe and production process of wax juice meat, formed a unique flavor, and become preeminentin the birthplace of the wax juice meat in Xi’an.

Address:

1. No.53 Zhuba City Street, Beilin District, Xi’an

2. Southeast corner of the crossroad of Jiandong Street and Yanta North Road, Beilin District, Xi’an

3. West of the Northwest Commercial Trade Centre (near Kangfu Road), 218 Changle West Road, Xincheng District, Xi’an

4. Northeast corner of the crossroad of Jinyeyi Road and Jinyewu Street, Yanta District, Xi’an

Xi’an Jia San Halal Soup Dumplings

The world famous Jia San Halal Soup Dumplings was founded by Hui people Jia San (Jia Zhiliang), which is known as the special Muslim food in ancient city of Xi’an. Jia San Steamed Stuffed Buns are very fastidious, skinned with craft white flour, filled with Qinchuan beef, matched with beef marrow broth, produced by special techniques, and steamed in the small basket on strong fire. The dipping sauce and vinegar materials need to be processed again to make the steamed stuffed bun match with the dipping sauce.

“Jia San Steamed Stuffed Bun” has unique flavor, it is “as thin as paper, filling with soup, sauce and spicy”, which is very special and known as the first steamed bun in the ancient city. When the Jia San Steamed Stuffed Bun was served on a table, people will be attracted by its fragrance and it is everything your taste buds desire. Just take chopsticks to open it a bit, while blowing the broth, you can’t help drinking the soup which is very delicious. After finishing the juice, you can eat the meat, then you can only feel the meat is so tender, with excessive green fragrance. One person can consume a basket of steamed stuffed buns without any pressure.

Address: No.93 North Gate, Hui People Street, Xiyangshi, Lianhu District, Xi’an

Chunfasheng Gourd Head Bread in the Soup

“Gourd Head Bread in the Soup”, is a unique traditional flavor cuisine in Xi’an. There are many restaurants of Gourd Head Bread in the Soup in Xi’an, while Chunfasheng Restaurant is the most authentic one. Its green thick soup, fresh fragrant and delicious, the steamed buns are soft, fat but not greasy, which is very famous, renowned both at home and abroad.

Chunfasheng Gourd Head Bread in the Soup has a long history. It was the famous Xi’an capital cuisine early in the Tang Dynasty. Today the Gourd Head Bread in the Soup is based on the “gourd head” in the Tang Dynasty, and evolved after successive chefs’ continuous improvement. No matter where you are, when the old Xi’an inhabitants think of the fragrant Chunfasheng Gourd Head Bread in the Soup, it is unable to let go in people’s minds.

Address: North side of 25 South Gate, Fenxiang, Beilin District, Xi’an

Xianyang Sanyuan Lao Huang’s Bubble Oil Cake

The Bubble Oil Cakeis a famous traditional snacks of the Han nationality in Sanyuan County of Shaanxi Province, whose origin can be traced back to the Tang Dynasty feast snack “see the wind away” oil cake. The stuffing is made of sugar, Huang Gui, rose, peach kernel, cooked noodles and the powder is superior wheat flour cooked in boiling water and lard.

The Sanyuan Lao Huang’s Bubble Oil Cake used the water steamed flour, lard, Huang Gui, white sugar etc. as the raw material. The bubble oil cake is white, skin fleeciness, like fine gauze woven or the cicada. The cake surface has uplifted bubble, so it was named the bubble oil cake.

Address:

1. Southeast corner of Sanyuan County Government Building, Xianyang, Shaanxi

2. 5th Floor of Tianlunshengshi Building, Wenyi Road, Beilin District, Xi’an

Baoji Qishan one hundred year old Meiyang Noodles with Ingredients

What do the Shaanxi inhabitants love to eat? That must be the noodles! When we talk about the Baoji noodles, the Qishan Noodles with Ingredients is very special. The noodles with ingredients is Shaanxi’s flavor snack, with as many as dozens of varieties, and specialised with its thin, reinforcement, light, sour, spicy, fragrant and other features, which is very smooth to eat.

The noodles with ingredients are thin, with uniformed thickness. The ingredients are delicious, with red oil surface. The soup is hot and sour, with reinforcement toughening and refreshing, appropriate for the old and young people. Shaanxi Noodles with Ingredients has a long history, especially the Qishan Noodles with Ingredients in Baoji is the most authentic.

Qishan Noodles with Ingredients is one of the few noodles both with delicious flavour and culture. With its unique craftsmanship, it was originated in the Zhou Dynasty, and has a profound cultural connotation, was listed in Shaanxi provincial non-material cultural heritage list. It is the living fossil culture of the Zhou Dynasty and is a symbol of unity and harmony. To dig the cultural connotation of Qishan Noodles with Ingredients, is a powerful lever to promote the noodles.

The restaurant got its name from the ancestors since the Qing Dynasty, with an old brand as “Mei Yang” and “One Hundred Year of Mei Yang”.

Address:

1. No.3, 4 Maying Cross of Dongfeng Road, Crossroad of Dongfeng Road and Yuejin Road, Jintai District, Baoji

2. Yongxingfang, Dongxin Street, Xi’an

Yulin Mutton Saozi Buckwheat Noodle

Yulin Mutton Saozi Buckwheat Noodle is one of the traditional food of Yulin in Shaanxi Province, and is one of the three special noodles in North China, which is equally famous as the Lanzhou Stretched Noodles, Shanxi Sliced Noodles. The Yulin people are proud of the mutton Saozi buckwheat noodle. Almost all the guests to Yulin will be treated with this noodle.

He Le, called “He Lou” in the past. The Yulin mutton noodle uses a special foil machine tool to crush the buckwheat into fine and long article cone noodle, to scoop into the bowl, then pour into many kinds of spices mutton soup, therefore it was called mutton noodle.

Address:

1. Yuelaosan Buckwheat Noodle Shop, Xiekou Street, Lintong District, Xi’an

2. Nanqi Buckwheat Noodle Shop, Kejisi Road, Gaoxin District, Xi’an

Yaozhou Salty Noodles Soup

The salty noodles soup is “toughening and long, with light salty sweet amber coloured soup”. It is the food representative of the Yaozhou Food, and is the heritage and witness of deep history and culture of Tongchuan, Shaanxi. In the eyes of the Yaozhou locals, the one thousand-year old Yaozhou City was built on a bowl of salted noodles soup.

The salty noodle soup has three secrets: First is the soup, second is the flour and the third is the seasoning. The salty noodles soup is specialised in the soup, which usually contains a dozen of spices such as the clove, star anise, cinnamon, longan, ginger, bay leaves, small sweet, angelica sinensis. These ingredients are also Chinese herbal medicine, which have the effect of regulating and strengthening our body. For the flour, it is by adding a moderate amount of caustic soda repeatedly rub up and pull into wide or narrow noodles. Then to cool off the noodles after cooking and mix with fried soup for a few times. Afterwards, to pour the primitive soup after the diathermy. There are various ingredients, and the raw onions and leeks are indispensable, oil spilt chili is also a must-have, the soft tofu, fried tofu or sheep blood are also very good supplements. When you put these three ingredients together, the salty noodle soup will be very vivid and pleasing to the eye. The salty noodles soup is very refreshing and will warm your stomach. You will covet it before eating, and will remember it after eating.

In the Yaozhou region, there is a saying that “It doesn’t count that you have come to Yaozhou if you don’t eat the salty noodle soup”, so if you come to Yaozhou, to eat a bowl of salty noodle soup is indispensable.

Address：

1. Pengxing Salty Noodle Soup (Next to the East Street of Tourism Bureau of Cultural Relics, Yaozhou District)

2. Dongjie Salty Noodle Soup (Opposite to the East Street of Tourism Bureau of Cultural Relics, Yaozhou District)

3. Nanjie Salty Noodle Soup (20 meters south of Nanjie County Hospital, Yaozhou District)

4. Gou’er Salty Noodle Soup (The drug market, Qiyi Road, Yaozhou District, Opposite to the Telecommunications Bureau)