Raw Fried Buns, unlike steamed dumplings, these larger buns come with dough from raised flour, are pan-fried until the bottoms reach a deliciously crispy brown, and have not made their way to Chinese menus around the world.

Shanghai Hairy Crab, the best eaten in the winter months (Oct-Dec) and paired with Shaoxing wine to balance out your yin and yang.

Mutton Paomo, as the most representative local food and a "unique food peculiar to Shaanxi", the well-known Muslim snack named Mutton Paomo (Yangrou Paomo) enjoys an international reputation.  The main materials used in this snack are mutton and pancakes. The culinary art required for Pancake slices soaked in mutton soup is very carefully selected, the craft of boiling meat is very exquisite too. The mutton soup is the essence of this snack, beside the main materials, the ingredients, such as shallot, ginger, Chinese prickly ash, aniseed, fennel, cassia, etc., also play very important roles in this food.

Try to image that you are tearing a pancake into small pieces, soaking them in a bowl of the boiling mutton soup and taste them at once in a winter morning; you will know why it is a popular snack among Xi'an citizen.

The noodles are very particular. They must be hand-made of good wheat flour so the taste can catch your stomach at once. With many kinds of ingredients include pork shreds, day lily, egg, wood fungus, and bean curd which are flavored with a variety of spices, the hot and sour soup with slightness noodles, is suitable for both the elderly and young.