Restaurants

Xi’an is a famous tourist city as well as a famous city of gourmet food and snacks. In Xi’an, you can savor Shaanxi delicious food without limits.

Fist of all, in the gourmet food of Xi’an, we highly recommend “two feasts” and “two paomos”.

The “two feasts” are Shaanxi local snack feast of Xi’an restaurant and dumpling feast of dumpling restaurant in Defachang and Jiefang Road. Shaanxi local snack feast is known as “Jinxiang Shaanxi”. It selects over 70 from hundreds kinds of snacks all over the province, together with traditional specialty dishes of Xi’an restaurant, famous high quality dishes and innovative dishes which come into being a distinguishing feast and have supplied and popularized for tens of years. Defachang dumpling restaurant and dumpling restaurants in the Jiefang Road are all “China Time-honored Brand” and have had years of history. The dumplings they sold are unique and characterized and known as “Historical Flavor”.

The “two Paomo” are pita bread soaked in lamb soup and Hulutou Paomo. Pita bread soaked in lamb soup is most famous in Lao Sunjia restaurant and Tong Shengxiang restaurant while Hulutou Paomo is Chunfa restaurant. Lao Sunjia and Tong Shengxiang are both famous China Time-honored Brand which have a history about a hundred years. The Muslim main dishes and Muslim snacks, Muslim mutton in hot pot and beef in hot pot cooked by the tow restaurants are all delicious and tasty and full of local characteristics. Chun Fasheng restaurant was built in 1920 and has had a history over 80 years. The name “Chun Fasheng” was selected by a celebrated person from Du Fu’s poem “A good rain know its season, and comes when spring is here” in 1920. It is said that the technique of Chun Fasheng Hulutou Paomo was taught by the King of Medicine Sun Simiao of Tang Dynasty.

In addition, Xi’an dieting culture is full of intense northwestern amorous feelings. It is a great pleasure to taste various local flavor snacks while traveling in Xi’an. Chinese hamburger, pita bread soaked in lamb soup, cold noodle, buckwheat noodle, Hulutou, roast meat and rice noodle with sheep blood are local famous snacks known to many people. It is dispensable to have a taste local gourmet food when you go to travel in Xi’an. Having a unforgettable bowl of pita bread soaked in lamb soup, tasting a piece of Chinese hamburger and eating a plate of cold noodle with hot pepper will leave an permanent impression to the ancient city---Xi’an.