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Tong Sheng Xiang-Mutton Pao Mo
Tong Sheng Xiang is one of the more well-known places for getting Yangrou Pao Mo in Xi’an.
It is located next to the Drum Tower, in the park at the center of Xi’an city, next to Defachang dumpling restaurant.
Hours: 11:00-21:00
Address: Bell and Drum Tower Square
Tel: 86 (0)29 8721 0079

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Defachang Restaurant is a very popular restaurant present in Xian in China. The Defachang Restaurant is famous for its dumplings.This restaurant is situated in the Bell and Drum Tower Square. The Defachang Restaurant dates back a long way. It has a considerable amount of history behind it. The Defachang Restaurant has a tradition of offering and serving excellent and delicious dumplings to its customers. The Defachang Restaurant is functional since the year 1936 and ever since has been a leading restaurant of Xian in serving mouth watering dumplings. The Defachang Restaurant provided different kinds of dumplings and the chefs preparing these dumpling dishes are extremely well trained. The advantage with dumplings is that they can be prepared in various shapes and tastes. They offer a very wide variety to the chefs in regard to the method of their preparation. The Defachang Restaurant in Xian offer different kinds of Dumpling Banquets in the form of duck, shrimp etc. These are available in three different alternatives as well and those could be fried, steamed and boiled.

When traveling in Xian, one pleasure you should not miss is the Dumpling Banquet. Xi'an Dumpling Banquet is brought forth new ideas in its color, fragrance, taste and style; meanwhile, is added ancient culture. Thus, the dumpling is no longer one kind of simple flour food. People change the tradition of using pork, beef, mutton and vegetable as its filling, chicken, duck, fish, pork, meat, egg, delicacies from land and sea and fresh vegetable, etc, in one word, include steaming, frying, toasting, etc. They add many tastes such as sour, sweet, peppery, etc. Concerning the style, they make out various pretty and lovely styles such as flower, bird, grass, fish, ect. Besides

Hulutou (intestines in Broth) is a local delicacy in Xi’an . Its raw materials are intestines . Before it is served , the customer needs to break the pancakes into small pieces , then the chef soaks them in te boiling bone soup three or four times with pork intestines, chicken , sea cucumber and squid on the top . Afterward , lard, and greens are added to it . It is often served with preserved garlic and chili jam .
It is said that this culinary method was passed down from Sun Simiao , the famous doctor in the Tang Dynasty , to an owner of a restaurant in Chang’an with a bottle gourd of medicine for flavoring . After the owner of the restaurant inproved the delicacy in light with what Sun Simio told him , th dilicacy became known as intestines in broth for thousands of years .

Tong’s Cured Mutton in Xi’an is known for its freshly red color special taste and softness .
Legend has it that in 1900 when the Eight- Power Allied Forces invaded Beijing , Empress Dowager Ci Xi fled to Xi’an with Emperor Guang Xu . One day Ci Xi passed the Western Street in her imperial carriage . While climbing the slope, she caught a strong armomatic smell. The provincial governor told her that the scent came from a restaurant selling mutton and beef . It was called the Tong’s after the name of the owner . Ci Xi felt salivating at the thought , so she stopped to have a try . After tasting she sang high praise of he meat . The official then sent for Xing Tingwei , tutor of the Minister of Military Department Zhao Fuqiao , and had him write on a wooden board “Nian Zhipo”, which means the slope was where the imperial carriage once stopped . The board still bears to the eyes today the golden inscription . Ever since then the great fame of the restaurant spread all over this ancient capital city .

The Cold Noodles are a local dish in Southern Shaanxi and Central Shaanxi . The cold noodles made in Central Shaanxi.The cold noodles made in Central Shaanxi are generally made from quality wheat flour through steaming while the cold noodles made in Southern Shaanxi are made from rice flour through the same process .
Cold noodles are served after they are mixed with gluten , bean sprouts , sliced cucumber , chili oil , soy sauce , vinegar , and garlic sauce .
Cold noodles are usually srved as cold snacks . Sometimes , they can bee served as hot snacks after they are stir-fried with sliced meat , sausage and greens .

 

 

Shredded Pancakes in Mutton or Beef Soup is a local Moselem delicacy honored as “a superb dish in Shaanxi”. It is originated from mutton and beef custard in ancient times that was listed as royal food in the Western Zhou Dynasty . Poems about it can also be found in Sima Qian’s “Historical Annals” .Then in the Song and Yuan dynasties , this delicacy gained even greater populaity because of an increase in the Moslem population in Xi’an .
There is a legend that connects the table manner for this delicacy with Emperor Tai Zu , Zhao Kuangyin, the first emperor of the Song Dynasty . Zhao was poverty-stricken and reduced to be homeless at an early age . One day when he was wandering in the street , he begged in a meat store for some hot mutton soup , he felt much warmer and energetic . Ten years later, Zhao came to his throne . Once when he was on an inspection tour in Chang’an he came o the store where he had begged for soup and asked his wife to bake some pancakes , broke them into small pieces , cooked for a few seconds with seasoning and soup and at last added several mutton slices.

The Qishan noodles have a long history and became well-known as early as the Qing Dynasty .The noodles must be hand-made of good wheat flour . The sauces include pork shreds, citron daylily , egg , wood fungus , and bean curd which are flavored with a variety of spices . Before they are served, the noodles are first scooped and then mixed with ingredients .
The Qishan noodles originated in Qishan County , hence the name . When they are served , there is more soup , which tastes sour and hot, than noodles in the bowl .

Guo Kui (pancakes), a well-known snack in Qianxian County , is thick in the middle and thin on the verge with designs of the wheel in the surface . It is crisp and tasty and is always a good present for friends and relatives . In the process of making it, the wheat flour is mixed with a limited amount of water to make a paste and then baked over soft fire so that it is easy to store and handy to carry because of it contains almost no moisture . That is why it is often the custom of the local people of Shaanxi to travel with it as their food .
Guo Kui is one of “the Ten peculiarities” in Central Shaanxi and it is often described as big as a manhole cover .