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The Buckwheat Noodles are made by pressing the buckwheat flour doughs through a special device with holes . They can be served either hot of cold. If it is served cold, flavor it with salt , vinegar , mustard , garlic sauce and hot chili .If it is served hot, warm it up in the hot soup and scoop it up and top it with cooked vegetables and sauces .
Buckwheat noodles taste a little bitter but delicious and they are beneficial all the year round for its antipyretic nature .

Fan’s Cured Meat in Pancakes (a sort of sandwich) is one of the traditional Shaanxi delicacies . In fact they are pancakes made of high-quality wheat flour stuffed with cured meat . The popular name among the local people’s “pancakes in cured meat”. If you call them “pancakes with cured meat ,” the native would consider it awkward and laughable .
Cured meat bears a long history in China . Researches prove that “Zi” out of the “Eight Treasures of the Zhou Dynasty” recorded in “The Rites of the Zhou Dynasty” refers exactly to cured meat . Fan’s cured meat apeared in Xi’an a long time ago , and there is a story about it .
In the Tang Dynasty , an official called “Fan” lived in Eastern Chang’an . Once he helped those flood-stricken refugees from Southern Shaanxi with his grain storage , and financed a young man when his mother died . The years later, this young man became wealthy through his cured meat business . To show his gratitude, he went to Fan’s 80th birthday with an intricately built coffin made of Chinese prickly ash wood . In the coffin there hid cured

Zeng Gao (steamed rice pastry) is a traditional snack for breakfast in Central Shaanxi. It is made from glutinous rice and dates in a steamer which is developed from an ancient cooking vessel Zeng, hence the name Zeng Gao. Dates have a lot of medicinal functions such as enriching the blood and calming the nerves and Zeng Gao has a strong flavor of dates and is soft, sticky and tasty .

Though it is so small candy and commonly available in Beijing, it somehow implies a simple, quiet and historical urban lifestyle of natives in Beijing. It is part of their childhood and also part of the history of Beijing City. Bintang Hulu could be a primitive but traditional candy which is made of fresh fruit, particularly wild fruit like hawthorn. Bintang Hulu is available on the hutongs and roads in Beijing, particularly in Guang'anmen and Changdian.