Famous Local Food
Yang Rou Pao Mo (Cubic Bread in Mutton Soup)
Visitors to Xian must do two things: one is to see the clay figures of terra cotta warriors and horses. The other is to taste Yang Rou Pao Mo (a soup dish that involves breaking wheat flour flat bread into a bowl and adding a delicious mutton stock). Before dinner, you will be served one or two pieces of wheat flour flat bread which you into tiny chunks, the smaller the better. The waiter or the waitress will then hand your bowl to the cook who mixes the bread and mutton soup with an appropriate relish. When the steaming hot meal is brought in, the waiter will also offer you sweet crisp pickled garlic, coriander, and hot pepper sauce. The most famous, the Tong Sheng Xiang (Prosperity and Fortune) Beef and Lamb Paomo Restaurant done in Tang Dynasty style, is a time-honored establishment in the Xian Bell and Drum Tower Square.

Dumpling Banquet
Next to Tong Sheng Xiang is a great restaurant, De Fa Chang Dumpling Restaurant, with its own version of the Dumpling Banquet.Ingredients for the dumpling fillings include various meats, vegetables, and seasonings. Cooking methods include steaming, boiling, pan-frying, deep frying, and roasting. Many flavors, including salty, sweet, hot, and sour are offered. Other house specialties include Peking dumplings, steamed sweet bean paste buns, steamed shrimp paste buns, and various uniquely spiced dishes. While guests sample various delicacies, traditionally waiters will explain the cuisine culture of each dumpling.

   

Guan Tang Baozi (steamed buns served with sauces inside)
One of Xian's most famous specialties is the Guan Tang Baozi (steamed buns served with sauces inside) served at Jia Brothers' Restaurant in Muslim Snack Street. You'll know you're there when you see the monstrous blue arch over the entrance and a wall festooned with photographs of Xian notables - TV hosts, writers, and musicians. The specialty dish is Guan Tang Bao Zi, with a choice of beef, lamb or 'three flavors' - lamb, mushroom, and prawns. The buns have piping-hot soup inside, so caution is advised. This dish is best washed down with Ba Bao Xi Fan, a bowl of sweet rice porridge filled with peanuts, sultanas, hawthorn, and medlar berries.

Rou Jia Mo (Chinese Hamburger)
Fanji is the famous vendor of Shaanxi's most widely consumed snack, Rou Jia Mo, finely chopped pork stuffed in toasted wheat flour flat bread. A piece of good-quality (youzhi) bread and a bowl of mung bean flour soup will cost you no more than 10 Yuan. The state-run atmosphere is quaint and friendly, and the numerous awards that decorate the walls are well deserved. The restaurant is in a lane opposite the Drum Tower, south of West Main Street.
A fascinating lure for food buffs is Local Snacks Street (Moslem Street) near Drum Tower in Muslim Square. On the two sides of the 500-meter street, there are many restaurants of different cuisines along with unique snack shops. While enjoying true Muslim cuisine, tourists can learn customs of the Hui people.
Besides guan tang baozi in Jia Brothers''Restaurant, there is barbeque in the Pingwa Kaorou Shop, sour cabbage and beef fried rice in Honghong Suancai Chaomi Restraunt, and beef noodles in Yifenli Restaurant. Other offerings, including fried persimmon cake (shi zi bing), fried dumpling (guo tie), stir-fried bean jelly (chao liang fen), chopped mutton fried in a wok with fine-ground wheat (fen zheng rou), and beef and vegetable pie (xian bing) are available on both sides of the street.

Recommended Restaurants
Xi'an Restaurant (Xi'an Fan Zhuang)
If you would like to taste all the local food at one time in a budget meal, Xian Restaurant (Xian Fan Zhuang) offers more than 100 varieties in its first-floor self-service restaurant. It charges only CNY18 per person, and is very popular with visitors.

Defachang Restaurant
The restaurant established in 1936 has a history of 70 years in providing fine dumplings.The stuffed dumpling originated in Beijing. The dumpling is made from a fine, thin pastry stuffed full with different fillings. The dumpling banquet has many fillings including chicken, duck, fish, shrimp and many more. It can be steamed, boiled,or fried. The many ways to make the dumpling provide the chiefs with a great scope to use their immagiation. The dumpling has many different tastes and looks.

Wuyi (May-First) Hotel
Chang'an Chinese style Snacks with May First steamed Bun as the head combinn in all delicious snacks, Chang'an Chinese Style Snacks has won great popularity because of its prompt selling style. Steamed bun series like stuffed with shrimps, sweetened bean paste, lotus sauce, Chinese sauerkraut, mushroom, chicken and shellfish are beautiful in shape in shape and delidious in taste. The bubble oil cake, being given the title of "Chinese Famous Snack" by Chinese Domestic Trade Ministry, is like a bubble. Fried cake with meat in cured sauce is a unique talent in Shaan'xi snacks, known as Chinese Hamburg. The meat in cured sauce is full of rich fragrance. Oiled crisp cake in thousands of layers, with distint layer and non-greasiness, has the reputation of "First Cake in West Qin". Rice noodle is a popular food throughout the year. Fried tenacious noodles fried rice noodles, steamed bread lf corn, corn cake, tens of vegetables cooked in earthenware pot, fried chicken leg, and fried chicken wing are offered for your free choosing. Having high quality, varieties, low price, convinient, clean and prompt service, all guests including the rich and the poor will stop to enjoy the food. Chang'an Style Snack makes serving people, devoting to the society, developing Chinese Style Snack as its own responsibility. Sincerely hope to get your care and support.