Local dish and snacks of Xi'an

Dumpling Banquet

The Dumpling Banquet is unique among Xi'an foods. Its cooking methods include almost all Chinese culinary skills. Widely blending flavors and integrating cooking essences extracted from across China, it perfectly mixes food materials and flavors, methods and nutrition, form and art, as well as diet and culture. The dumplings can be made in different shapes and with different expressions; their soft and tasty quality and the fragrance left in the mouth make them hard to forget.

Dry-cured Beef and Mutton

This Xi'an dish has a history of almost one hundred years. Choice meats are preserved with salt and local spices, and cooked with fine techniques as well as proper heat. The crisp, dry-cured meats have a ruddy color and delicious taste.

Roast Meat

Roast meat in the Beiyuan Gate area is characterized by small and thin slices of meat. The delicious meat on each kebab has good fat, and is thick with juice.

Crispy Fried Noodle

Crispy fried noodle is a famous traditional snack from ancient Xi'an. It is characterized by multiple layers and very thin lines of soft and not greasy noodles. It gained its name from its special shape, "like a golden line when picked up and like a pine tower when put down."

Steamed Pea Flour Cake

It is processed with Chinese dates produced in Xi'an as its raw material. The pea in it is yellow and tastes subtle and sandy with fresh, cool and moderate sweetness.

Honey Cold Cake

One of Xi'an's special snacks for local dinners, it tastes soft and delicious and definitely fills the stomach.

Delicious Specialties

Xi'an's delicious specialties fully represent the city's character. When they are tasted folklore customs come instantly to mind, so they are not only a sensory pleasure but also an appreciation of local culture and history.
Shaanxi specialties have good reputations spread far and wide. Sweet and sour apples, crystal persimmons with honey pulp and kiwi fruit, called the King of Vitamin C, are among them. There are many other specialties full of Shaanxi customs awaiting you including red Chinese dates, Chinese chestnuts and pomegranates.