Xi'an has a wide variety of snacks, friends who have been to Xi'an know that there are several streets that sell all kinds of snacks, shouting and selling is not lively, bustling pedestrians are even more invited to Xi'an this time is invited to Xianyang side of the student party, for the pure feelings of our university, had to go. Although the pockets are empty, they still get together for the so-called feelings. Because this time to go in the winter, so for convenience, there is no car is by train past, the winter in the north, the weather is always gray, coupled with the north wind whistling on the Loess Plateau is really a taste of cold. Anyway, the food tour can be explored in any season.
After settling down in the hotel, I had a big dinner with my classmates who came with me, and the next morning I began to visit the Shaanxi Museum, the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, the Qingquan Square, the Drum Tower, the Bell Tower, and the first bowl of cold skin I ate in Xi'an. Music fountain square side of the Jia San soup bun, this is said to be the most prestigious soup bun in Xi'an, the owner brothers set up a new sign after the separation of the family, cool skin is counted as a large number of snack varieties with selling, the sale is not meticulous, plastic bowls with messy grooves on the service to us. I don't know if it is hungry or the origin of the production, the worst is also much stronger than the most authentic in the field, this bowl of cool skin is simply amazing, the cool skin is thick and elastic, the Q bullet can also bounce up and down in the mouth, the juice is fragrant and slippery, the proportion of sweet and sour salty fresh is moderate, and the cold skin is slid down the throat, which is indeed refreshing. The main soup bun, Eight Treasure Porridge has all become a supporting role, and this bowl of its unassuming cool skin arouses all of us's curiosity about how delicious Xi'an liangpi is.
According to the ethnic division, Xi'an snacks are divided into halal and Han Chinese, while there is a difference between liangpi, halal and Han chinese. The cold skin of the Hui people is mostly hemp sauce, and the Han people's mainly refers to the cool skin of Qinzhen, which is not so thick with hemp sauce, and it feels that the dough skin is thinner than that of the Hui people, and there are rolled dough skin and rice skin.
Let's talk about the two bowls of halal cold skins that impressed me the most! The old gold cool skin of Xi'an City, the door face is not large, but there is a long queue every time. The cold skin of the old Jin family is really the taste of the cold skin of the sesame sauce is relatively light and refreshing, I think it is vinegar used well, sour but not stewed, although the juice is thick, it is not too thick to eat, it is the lightest cold skin that we have eaten in Xi'an, but after eating it is full of fragrance and the aftertaste is long.
Sheng Zhiwang's cool skin is ranked in Xi'an, and some people say that they do not eat a bowl of cold skin in Xi'an, even if they have not been to Xi'an. The delicious food of the cool skin is not advertised by tourists, but by locals. During the Muslim Eid al-Fitr, many shops are closed, Sheng Ji is no exception, go once, go twice, three times are not open, the fourth time I met the staff just opened the door to prepare for cleaning, rushed over but did not open. Time was told that business would resume early the next morning. At dawn we went straight to Sheng ji, more than 7 o'clock, and sure enough, the door opened, entered the store, fortunately there were only three people in front of us, looking for a place to sit down. As a result, the old half a day is still waiting in line, and the queue to buy cold skins is getting longer and longer. What's going on, isn't there just three people in line? A question to know, the original three in the front row are early in the morning to pack the cold skin for the whole family, not nine or ten, of course, can not get up, we also saw the weight of sheng ji cool skin in the minds of the locals, the cold skin was finally bought, brought to the table, looking at it is not the same as other families, sesame sauce is particularly thick, red oil color is darker, you can smell the strong aroma of red oil and sesame sauce. It should be said that from the moment I first stepped into the store, I smelled a strong aroma of tahini. The mixed skin also looks darker than the usual cold skin, and the sesame sauce is thick enough to wrap the whole skin. Gently sipping a piece of cold skin in the mouth, it is indeed more smooth and plump than every bowl I have eaten before, and the aroma of sesame sauce remains in the mouth for a long time after eating, lingering. Shengji's cool skin is a rich flavor type, compared to the old Jin family's cool skin, Shengji's products are more like the feeling of thick makeup beauty, slightly spicy and sour. Unforgettable entrance.
Come to Xi'an without trying the authentic meat sandwich buns. There is no meat sandwich bun for sale on the Muslim street, and do not ask for this food in front of the Muslims. In fact, you only need to cross the road in The Drum Tower and go to the opposite street to find a Fan Ji meat bun and a Wang Rudder bacon meat shop, both of which are old shops with some fame in Xi'an. When I first came to Xi'an. Wang Duo's family was closed, and only Fan Ji was still open. On the morning of the trip to the Terracotta Warriors, we came here for breakfast, one meat sandwich for each person. The outer skin is crispy, the inside is flexible and tough, fragrant but not greasy, full of gelatinous bacon meat and steamed buns, take a bite, the aroma is fragrant, the gravy is overflowing, and it is completely impossible to stop the mouth. We have never eaten such a good meat sandwich steamed bun without any image, and three or two bites of a steamed bun are down. After eating the steamed buns, drinking a cup of hot yellow guizhi wine, the whole body is warm, and the body feels full of happiness and upward energy. Before leaving, we went to the front desk again, bought four more meat sandwich buns to take away, and made lunch on the way.
On that day, in the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, several people ate Fan Ji's meat sandwich steamed buns that were cold but still the same fragrant, and there was really a burst of satisfaction. If the Mausoleum of the First Emperor of Qin and the Terracotta Warriors are the iconic attractions of Xi'an, then what food represents the taste of Xi'an more than meat sandwich buns? Eating the best Taste of Xi'an at the most representative attractions of Xi'an is also appropriate. As for wang rudder bacon meat, it still feels inferior to Fan Ji's production, and the steamed bun seems to be fine, but it always feels that the aroma is worse, but a bowl of lamb blood dumpling noodles is doing well.
The number of Xi'an snacks is indeed popular in the northwest, basically the prototype of northern snacks, and snacks in various parts of the north are basically based on the prototype of Xi'an plus the local characteristics of their respective places. Therefore, if you want to eat authentic cold skin and meat sandwich steamed buns, you have to go to Xi'an to find a long-established brand. But then again, there are a lot of old brands that are slowly declining, and there are many reasons for this that lead to the depression of taste, perhaps because the old brands have such signs, relying on the old to sell the old. Perhaps because of the expansion of capital operations. I still hope that the snacks that each family imitates can be as accepted as possible by the public while innovating the taste. It is not clear whether innovative flavors are good or bad in the snack industry, I only know that various flavors of additives and pigments are rampant in the catering industry.