What is Xi’an’s food culture?

1. The Dumpling Banquet is a famous snack banquet in Xi'an. It was successfully developed based on the excavation and research of traditional dumplings from the Tang Dynasty and China. The Xi'an Dumpling Banquet got its name mainly because this kind of banquet consists of various kinds of dumplings. Dumpling feast is a kind of pasta that northerners generally like to eat. It has meat and vegetable fillings and seasonings, making it delicious.

2. Beef and mutton steamed buns are a famous snack in Xi'an. High-quality beef and mutton are cooked in a pot with seasonings, and the soup is reserved. Break the baked "Tiger Back Chrysanthemum Heart" - Tuo Tuo Mo into pieces, add auxiliary ingredients and cook it. Its characteristics are: the meat is thick and the soup is mellow and delicious, sticky, tough and slippery. The cooking technology of Roupao Mo is very strict, and the meat cooking process is also very particular.

3. Guokui is a traditional pasta snack that is popular among urban and rural residents in Guanzhong, Shaanxi. Guokui originated as a gift from grandma to her grandson He Miyue, and later developed into a flavored convenience food.

Guokui originated as a gift from grandma to her grandson He Miyue, and later developed into a flavored convenience food. Among the "Top Ten Oddities of Shaanxi" compiled by people outside the province, one of the oddities is "Roasted buns look like pot lids," which refers to pot helmets.

4. Zeng cake is a traditional cake breakfast food of the Han people in the Guanzhong area of ??Shaanxi. Made of glutinous rice and red dates, they are stacked alternately in three or four layers. Steam over high and low heat. The color is bright, red and white, sticky and sweet. A sweet cake made from glutinous rice and red dates. The steamer cake is of good shape and color, moderately soft and hard, soft, sweet and sticky, and has a mellow taste. It is really a good breakfast item in winter and spring.

5. Cured pork is a kind of sauced meat cooked in a pot, but it is crispier than ordinary sauced pork and has a fresher taste. Cured pork is a famous local specialty snack in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province. As early as the Warring States period, it was called cold meat, and it was called bacon in the Tang Dynasty. The meat in the cured juice is red in color, crystal clear and bright. It is fat but not greasy, the meat is lean and has no residue, and the fragrance lasts for a long time after eating.

The Chinese herbs and spices used in the cured meat are: nard, kaempferol, long pepper, galangal, amomum villosum, white cardamom, angelica, cinnamon, cloves, plus anise, cumin, and grass fruit.

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