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Places to
Eat
A good night-food street is DongxinJie between
Jiefang Lu and Zhongshan Gate. Much of the local
street food is of Islamic origin, and some common
dishes are: fenzhengrou, made by frying chopped
mutton in a work with fine-ground wheat; dark brown
sorghum or buck wheat noodles called heluotiao;
and migao, deep-fried rice cakes with s sweet rose-water
filling.
For Muslim-Chinese 'haute cuisine' tries the 3rd-floor
section of Laosunjia Restaurant on the corner of
Duanlumen and Dond Dajie. It's opposite the Friendship
Store and is readily identified by its green dome
roof with an Islamic moon-crescent on top. They
serve a delicious local hotpot called shuanguozi,
made by dipping uncooked meat and vegetable slices
into a boiling chafing dish.
For western foods, you can select Small World Restaurant
at the outside of Jianguo Gate 300m eastern of Heping
Gate. Kentucky Fried Chicken Chains can be noticed
in all main streets in downtown area. Coffee Language
is a world chain coffee, lies in Gaoxin Rd.
The cheap downstairs restaurant in the May First
Hotel is good for staple northern-China food like
pork dumpling and hearty bowls of noodles. It's
popular with locals and always busy. Upstairs is
a more up market restaurant with an English menu
listing 'barbecued gourd in honey' and other delicacies.
The East Asia Restaurant was founded in 1916
in Shanghai, but moved to Xi'an in 1956. The restaurant's
better sections on the 2nd and 3rd floors have arguably
the city's best Chinese cuisine. The East Asia is
southeast of Bell tower at 46 Luoma Shi, a lane
running off Dong Dajie.
The Xi'an Restaurant is at 298 Dong Dajie. In the
cheap section downstairs, the house specialty is
a salty fried dumpling called 'guotie'. Upstairs
is geared mainly to banquets, but they also have
a section for general guests with a shorter menu
in English. The food ranges from mediocre to outstanding.
If you believe their blurb, the Qujiangchun Restaurant
at 192 Jiefang Lu specializes in 'Tang Dynasty cuisine
' and has waiters in costume.
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