Xi'an year, the most Chinese. And the bacon is the most Xi'an year.
In the eyes of Xi'an's grandfather and aunt, bacon is the first hard dish of Chinese New Year's Eve rice, and it is also a currency to preserve the value of gifts.
There is still a little half a month before the New Year, and the big learning alley is crowded with people who buy New Year goods.
The big learning lane and the internet celebrity "Muslim Street" are only separated by two roads, and this neighborhood is the "fangshang" that Xi'an people really recognize.
Before there was no hemat and Su Xiansheng, Xi'an people always went to Fangxin and Sanqiao to buy seafood chicken and duck, and at the end, they must go to the factory to buy a few pounds of beef and mutton.
The beef and mutton in the workshop are raw and cooked, and everyone buys them, I am afraid that only the taste of bacon is the taste.
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Liu Jixiao's beef, inheriting the new year flavor of his parents
Whoever has a good taste of bacon, Xi'an people have their own Hamlay cattle. But Liu Jixiao of Xiyang City Cross is undoubtedly the store with the most fans.
There was still a little half a month before the New Year, and the patron of Liu Jixiao's family lined up the queue to the plate of Southeast Asian dumplings opposite the door.
The concept of cured beef = the favorite of the middle-aged and elderly is not established here, and there are many young people in the queue.
In order to cope with the new year's passenger flow, Liu Jixiao's family opened two stalls to buy meat.
Dozens of pieces of bacon were squeezed tightly in a stainless steel basin, and when they looked out of the stalls, they were in a trance of red fire. There is a taste of the year, more appetite.
The price of bacon is 70 yuan a catty, weighing two or three catties is also one or two hundred, and it is just right to give gifts. It's not too extravagant, and it's not too much to be unable to get your hands on.
I am afraid that this is one of the reasons why it has been in Xi'an Spring Festival for so many years.
Liu Jixiao's home is the most "unpretentious" restaurant I have ever seen.
The clerk never said "Hello", "What's the point", "Thank you for coming", but just stood silently behind the meat tray, his eyes glancing into the void. First-time guests are often frightened by this aura, and dare not ask or move.
The regular customers are confident. The kung fu in the queue has already carefully appreciated each piece of beef. Waiting for himself, his fingers sped a little over the red meat pile, "Come 200!" ”
The customer's finger on this side has not been withdrawn, the clerk over there has grabbed the meat, thrown it on the board and dropped the knife, and then passed the scale, just 200 pieces.
After going through this set of processes, it is not even half a minute.
You say, where is the delicious beef?
taste? Not as rich as spicy beef shredded. palate? Not as strong as beef jerky. Fresh? It is not as good as the second cooked meat slices in the Chaoshan hot pot.
Fortunately, it is soft and rotten and light. The elderly and children, diabetes and hypertension, and people who are afraid of spicy and greasy can eat two bites, which is suitable for the New Year's table.
Over time, it became a custom, and it had to be placed every year.
In my opinion, Xi'an people love it, and I am afraid that it is the same as loving Bingfeng. Because of habit, because of tradition, because it is the taste of childhood.
Liu Jixiao, whose business hours are from 6:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m., is earlier than the opening of fritter stalls.
The problem is that there are really Xi'an people who get up at six or seven o'clock and take this bite of bacon.
You say that if you want to use this effort to develop the economy, Xi'an's GDP may have to catch up with Guangshen and surpass Chengdu and Chongqing, right?
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To do New Year goods, you can't just have bacon
To the west, Xiyang City is a more simple residential area. The Lianhu District Government has set up a sign of a historical and cultural district here, and there is indeed culture, but it is a culture of ordinary life.
The New Year goods sold here are very real, the fried beef balls are compact and have a strong taste, and they are made into balls and stewed vegetables with cabbage noodles, which can make a large bowl of rice.
There are also golden and splendid small crispy meats, made of beef, with large crusts and crispy skins, thin and lean dough, not those small crispy meats that rely on fat meat and noodles to support the deliciousness.
More shops sell raw beef and mutton. The shop here is still like a traditional butcher shop, with a thick iron hook hanging from the lamb steak beef tenderloin.
Along the way, there are more than 10 raw beef and mutton shops. The red and white pieces of flesh are heavy and hanging on the hook, which is a winter scene on the square.
In addition to raw meat, there are also lambshoe tendons, beef tripe slices that cannot be bought in supermarkets, piles of land stacked on the stalls, which is very spectacular.
A raw meat shop is cutting beef nuggets for sale to large households on a table in front of the shop.
The bright red and thick meat is tender like tofu under the butcher's knife, the knife is smooth, and the meat is smoothly cut. After a while, the table was piled up with small pieces of meat that were 3 centimeters square.
When you come to buy bacon this year, you must remember to go west. The unpopular and absolutely affordable New Year goods are all here.
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Commercialized mill on the taste of the year
After saying the west side, let's go to the east side. Bounded by the intersection of Xiyang City, where Liu Jixiao is located, to the east is the increasingly commercial Muslim Street.
The streets are littered with vendors selling specialties such as dog-headed dates and paper-skinned walnuts. Ethnic-style commodity stores from Yunnan add a touch of Lijiang style to this place.
This freshly squeezed pomegranate juice is not known to be a popular drink in which year, and it is quite popular in muslim streets. A large, plump bright red pomegranate soaked in smoke made of dry ice is particularly inviting.
The lamb kebabs on the other side all look fatter in the light than anywhere else.
If you say, freshly squeezed pomegranate juice and kebabs are barely "delicacies" in Xi'an.
The appearance of bombing squid and smoking ice cream is probably the official announcement of the transformation of Muslim Street into a pure tourist attraction.
The exquisitely decorated rock candy pear juice shop, and the free tasting snacks that attract customers... Everything will give you a sense of being in a trance when you are traveling off-site.
Seriously, there is no need to travel abroad for the New Year! After buying the cured beef, walking east, and the feeling of playing in the food streets of the province, there is not much difference!
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There are many shops selling waxed beef in the shop, the old Ma family, the old iron family, the old tong family, the old Zhang family... I can make a bacon ball debut.
But what can be recognized by Xi'an people is always so few.
It is these few bacon beef, the taste has not changed for decades. From the grandparents' table, to the parents' table, and then to the next generation's table.
Year after year, accompany the people of Xi'an to spend each reunion year.
We've compiled a guide to xi'an's most popular beef shops, so don't forget to add this traditional flavor to Chinese New Year's Eve rice
Xi'an wax beef grows grass
Tie ZhiJian family beef
"From childhood to adulthood, the bacon only eats the old iron family, which I don't think is salty, and it won't be very broken."
Address: No. 195, Xiyangshi Street
Opening hours: Monday to Sunday 6:00-22:00
Qiao Zikou Jia Yongxin
"Take home the tour to eat, sprinkle some green onions, mix with sesame oil, so delicious!"
Address: 396 West Avenue
Opening hours: Monday to Sunday 7:30-22:30
MaFeng La beef and mutton
"The meat is really delicious, not salty, not light, not hard and not rotten, there are online stores to buy, no queues."
Address: No. 1, the first floor of Jinqiao Square
Opening hours: Monday to Sunday 7:00-2:00
Horseman's wax beef
"It's not easy to find, there are too many people in the New Year, I bought two pounds of beef, and the beef with spiced sauce is also good."
Address: No. 42 Damai City Street
Opening hours: Monday to Sunday 8:00-22:00
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Liu JiXiao la beef
"Lots of people! However, the queue is also fast, and it will be bought in a while, and it will be used for gifts. ”
Address: No. 187 North Guangji Street Street
Opening hours: Monday to Sunday 6:30-19:30