If you have distinguished friends come to Xi'an, you must invite you to taste Xi'an snacks. Xi'an Restaurant has a long history, in addition to a complete range of snacks, it is also a symbol of status.
Xi'an Restaurant's Shaanxi cuisine is famous, gourd chicken, warm mixed waist silk, these won the national gold medal of the signature dish for the time being, only the golden line oil tower, yellow gui persimmon cake, pot stickers, yellow gui thick wine, etc., street stalls, people who have been to Xi'an are also familiar with most of them. Especially if there are elderly people in the family, the family reunion gathers in Xi'an Restaurant, not only to eat, but also to be an old Xi'an complex.
With the acceleration of the comprehensive transformation of Xi'an East Street, Xi'an Restaurant has now been emptied and demolished, and this 40-year-old "old" building full of simple Eastern European architectural styles will disappear from people's vision. The old Xi'an people who live in the city walls of Xi'an, watching the Xi'an restaurant stand for 40 years, the cultural scholar Li Lianyuan, who has been excavating the "old city of Xi'an", wrote a "Xi'an Restaurant with a Gourd Chicken more good story" for this purpose, describing a kind of loneliness in his heart.
"Xi'an Restaurant has a good story of gourd chicken" content synopsis:
For the Xi'an restaurant that Shaanxi people love, the Shaanxi cuisine it operates is one of the regional cuisines of China, which can be traced back to the Western Zhou Dynasty. In other words, without Shaanxi cuisine, there would be no top ten cuisines in China, obedient!
Xi'an Restaurant was built in 1929, famous for "Authentic Shaanxi Cuisine" and "Shaanxi Style Snack Compendium", which was built by Mr. Feng Kechang and some celebrities in Xi'an at that time, and was originally named "Xi'an Hotel". In 1942, Feng Kechang formed a wholly-owned operation and changed the "Xi'an Hotel" to "Xi'an Restaurant". In 1957, it was upgraded to a state-run during the socialist transformation, and in order to maintain the operating characteristics of Xi'an Restaurant, it was relocated from the west side of the Bell Tower to No. 298 East Avenue after expanding the operation.
In the course of more than 80 years of ups and downs, Xi'an Restaurant has represented Shaanxi in terms of catering because of its pure Shaanxi cuisine style, and has received many historical celebrities.
In 1933, Mr. Yu Youren, a modern Chinese politician, educator and calligrapher, returned to Shaanxi and came to Xi'an Restaurant to taste it. When he tasted dishes and snacks such as warm shredded waist and large meat in the water basin, he said happily: "I haven't eaten such a good hometown meal for a long time!" He also encouraged Feng Kechang to say: "We must do more varieties that the people of Shaanxi love to eat, especially to introduce more special snack varieties from all over Shaanxi, so that there is no business in the hotel!" ”
In 1936, during the "Xi'an Incident", in order to promote a peaceful settlement plan, Zhou Enlai specially set up a "peace banquet" at the Xi'an Restaurant, and entertained the patriotic generals Zhang Xueliang, Yang Hucheng, and anti-Japanese democrats of the Northeast Army and the Northwest Army with special dishes and Huang Gui thick wine, and finally reached a peaceful settlement of the Xi'an Incident and reversed the situation.
In 1938, after a long journey, the Indian medical team aiding China broke through the heavy obstacles of the Kuomintang reactionaries to come to Xi'an, and Premier Zhou once again set up a banquet at the Xi'an Restaurant to entertain international friends and anti-Japanese democrats such as Dr. Ke Dihua, who aided China in resisting Japan.
In 1955, Mr. Lao She came to Xi'an, and Gobi Zhou, who was then the chairman of the Xi'an Municipal Federation of Literature and Literature, wrote an article called "Fish Eating" in order to describe in detail the scene of the banquet at the Xi'an Restaurant. Even Liu Qing, who did not like to eat fish since childhood, also had a special love for the "milk soup pot fish" of Xi'an Restaurant.
In 1956, Song Qingling and Guo Moruo came to Xi'an to investigate, and when they tasted the steaming Huanggui thick wine of Xi'an Restaurant, Guo Lao was very happy, and his poetry flourished, and he even claimed that this thing was "not like wine, better than wine", leaving a deep impression on Xi'an Restaurant.
Xi'an Restaurant has continued to grow and develop under the care and support of the Party and the government, and in 1963 and 1977, a large number of Shaanxi cuisine chefs were mobilized twice to enrich the technical force, especially the beloved Premier Zhou came to Xi'an Restaurant many times to entertain international friends and democrats, and urged the scale of Xi'an Restaurant to be expanded. Under the care and supervision of Premier Zhou, the leaders of Shaanxi Province and Xi'an City decided to demolish and rebuild the Xi'an Restaurant, and after more than three years of efforts by people from all walks of life, the new Xi'an Restaurant Building was completed in the middle of the bustling East Street in the second half of 1977. Mr. Guo Moruo's handwriting "Xi'an Restaurant" was replaced after a few years of business at the new site, about the early 1980s, you may not believe that the font name that hung for more than 30 years was actually from a small social enterprise - the then East Fifth Road Commune, today's Zhongshanmen Street Office, is also the pride of the people of the new city.
In the early 1980s, the reform and opening up had just started, and people's consumption awareness gradually changed, and the "next restaurant" grew from less to more, and finally became the norm. Although the warm mixed waist silk, gourd chicken, milk stuffed fish and so on of Xi'an Restaurant are the housekeeper dishes of Xi'an Restaurant, the citizens still like to eat meat sandwich steamed buns, rice noodle skins, crystal persimmon cakes, pot stickers, wontons and other snacks on the open first floor, if you drink a bowl of rich yellow cinnamon thick wine, it is comparable to eating a big meal. Of course, the opportunity to eat a big meal is basically at the old life banquet and the wedding of the newlyweds. Once, the wedding banquet of a brother of a co-worker in an enamel factory was at the restaurant, and the meal seemed very simple today, but it was still unforgettable in my impression. At that time, Xi'an Restaurant was both a yearning and a spiritual comfort for the citizens, and it was particularly satisfying and warm to mention it.
Since its establishment, Xi'an Restaurant has experienced more than 80 spring and autumn seasons, which has been remembered by generations of old Xi'an people, not only its cuisine, but also the taste that has been remembered for a long time.
Teacher Li Lianyuan said: Once upon a time, the old brands and old buildings on East Avenue abounded: Xinhua Bookstore, Dahua Hotel, Overseas Chinese Store, Wuyi Hotel, Women's and Children's Hospital... However, after years of demolition, it no longer exists. Architecture is a solidified history, is a piece of urban memory, retained with a certain number of years, historical background, characteristics of the building, can let people see, touch, remember, timeless inheritance, sour, sweet and bitter spicy taste. If you have time, go and say goodbye to the restaurant!