XiAn-Muslim Snack Street

                                                        Muslim Snack Street

Apart from its profound history, the ancient city Xi'an is also known for many wonderful dishes. If you are interested in Xi'an’s local snacks, the Muslim Snack Street right behind the Drum Tower is on the top of our recommendation list that you should visit.

or a special snack from the Middle East, Muslim Snack Street is the only area specializing in Muslim food in the city. The street is lined with small snack bars and restaurants, some of which are open around the clock. Diners on this street will find intriguing and tasty snacks such as cured beef and mutton, bean jelly in meat juice, fried dumplings, roasted fish, instant boiled mutton and barbecued mutton. Roasted seeds and nuts are also available.

Below are top three popular Xi’an snacks that you can get in the Muslim Snack Street.

Mutton Paomo (Steamed Bun Soaked in Mutton Soup)

A very famous local Xian dish with a long history is Mutton Paomo. The dish consists of mutton soup with a loaf of flat bread crumbled into it. Before eating, the bread is broken into pieces and put into an empty bowl. The waiter then adds the mutton soup. The mixture is eaten along with mutton soup, pickled garlic cloves, cabbages, cooking wine, vermicelli, and salt.

Roujiamo (steamed bread with mincemeat fillings)

Fried pork or beef stuffed in pita bread, sometimes with green peppers and cumin. It is very similar to the hamburger, thus the name "Chinese Hamburger.”

Liangpi (cold noodles)

Cool noodles, made of rice or wheat, taste spicy and great. Liangpi (cold noodles) is a famous summer snack and known for its white color, thin shape, and smooth surface. It is eaten along with garlic, ginger, pepper, sauce, vinegar, bean sprouts, capsicum flour, salt, sliced cucumber, caraway, chicken essence, sesame oil etc.

Muslim Snack Street is located close to the Drum Tower in Muslim Square. It is a vibrant area with many restaurants spilling out onto the street and mixing with the street sellers. Walking along the Muslim Snack Street, you will not only taste the wonderful Muslim cuisine, but also gain a full glimpse of local customs and culture.

AnYang-Travel and Food

                                                                   YinXu

Located about 2 km (1.2 mi) northwest of Anyang are the ruins of the Shang Dynasty capital known as Yin. This massive archaeological site was discovered in 1899, excavated in the decades that followed, and first opened to the public in the 1980s as the Garden Museum of Yinxu. The current museum was opened on 16 March 2005, and includes the famous Tomb of Fu Hao. The site is inscribed on the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites
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                                                              WenFeng Pagoda

Wenfeng Ta (Literature Peak Pagoda) on the grounds of the Tianning Temple is believed to have been constructed in 925 and is known, from inscriptions concerning the reconstruction of the temple, to have been in place by 952. The current pagoda was constructed during the Ming Dynasty and received its current name during the Qing Dynasty due to its proximity to the Confucian temple. The five-story dark red brick octagonal tower is 38.65m high and is, unusually, larger at the top than the bottom and is topped with a 10m Lamaist stupa-style dagoba steeple. The pagoda stands on two-metre-high stone pedestal and is decorated with multi-eave pent roofs and carvings of Buddhas and bodhisattvas. The unique pagoda is the symbol of Anyang.

                                                                 HuiMian

HuiMian is the must special snack food to try if you going to AnYang. HuiMian is made of high quality bread flour as raw materials, and with the stock and many kinds of dishes, a kind of similar wide pasta noodles. Soup good gluten, nutrients .

BEIJING--part 2

Beijing not only has scenic spots and historical sites, but also has a lot of famous cuisines. Today, I am going talk about my favorite food material which is mutton. When talking about lamb cuisines, I will recommend 4 centuries-old restaurants.

 

Firstly, the bai kui burn mutton. “Bai Kui" is the original "east long shun halal museum" of the owner. The store was founded in the Qing emperor Qianlong (1780), has been 200 years of history. The Bai Kui burn mutton has unique flavor and high reputation in Beijing city.

 

Secondly, “yue sheng zhai” is a specializing in the sauce of halal beef and mutton in the name of a shop, it opened in Qing emperor Qianlong forty years (AD 1755), to today have a history of more than 250 years.

 

Thirdly, The barbecue season. This restaurant was founded in the Qing emperor 1848, and famous of barbecued lamb and beef.

 

Finally, Dong Lai Shun Hot Pot is the most

famous hot pot chain restaurants in Beijing and has been cooking up a storm since 1903.

 

These four restaurant are called as the four famous mutton cuisines restaurant in Beijing.        

 (all pictures from Baidu)
 

Macau-gambling

Macau (also spelled. Macao, Ou3 Mun4 in Cantonese, Àomén in Mandarin) is a Special Administrative Region (SAR) of China. Located across the Pearl River estuary from Hong Kong, until 1999 Macau was an overseas territory of Portugal. One of the world's most densely populated spots, Macau is best known as Asia's largest destination for gambling taking in even more revenue than Las Vegas. Gambling is Macau's biggest industry and busloads arrive daily from mainland China to try their luck. In addition, many Hong Kongers arrive on weekends with the same aim. For many years, the Casino Lisboa was the most famous and a landmark well known to people outside Macau, but it is being eclipsed by Sands Casino which opened in 2004. Nevertheless, the original Casino Lisboa is still worth a visit as its halls contain many original antiques on display from the private collection of gambling tycoon Stanley Ho.

CANTON TOWER

Canton Tower formerly known as Guangzhou TV Astronomical and Sightseeing Tower and also known as Guangzhou Tower is a 600m, 1,969 ft tall multi-purpose observation tower in the Haizhu District of Guangzhou (historically known as Canton or Kwangchow), Guangdong, China. The tower was topped out in 2009 and it became operational on 29 September 2010 for the 2010 Asian Games. The tower briefly held the title of tallest tower in the world, replacing the CN Tower, before being surpassed by the Tokyo Skytree in 2011. It is the tallest structure in China and the fourth-tallest freestanding structure in the world.

The tower, although not fully completed, opened to the public on 1 October 2010 in time for the 16th Asian Games, hosted by Guangzhou in November 2010. The rooftop observatory finally received its official opening in December 2011

BEIJING-part 1

BEIJING, also called as Peking, is a city with 3000 years history, one of four ancient capitals in China. The modern city structure was founded by Ming dynasty (AD 1368-1644) and Qing dynasty (AD 1636-1911). When talking about Beijing with people from other countries, the great wall might be the first impression. The Great Wall is the grandest stone defensive construction in ancient China. Located in North China, it stems from Shanhaiguan Pass in the east and stretches to Jia Yu Guan in the west. With a total length of 6700 kilometers (over 10000 li), it is also known as "A ten-thousand-li wall”. Initially built in the Warring States Period and rebuilt in later dynasties, the Great Wall is an ancient defensive project with the largest workload and longest duration of construction in China or even around the world. It has been included in the List of World Heritages and rated as one of the "Seven Wonders of the World".

The Qin Great Wall and Ming Great Wall (the great walls built in the Qin and Ming dynasties respectively) are the most famous in history. The Qin Great Wall is featured by stone structure and its majesty and magnificence. A comparatively integral segment of Qin Great Wall sites is preserved in the area of Baotou City. The most integral and magnificent segment of Great Wall in history is the Ming Great Wall which was built for the purpose of guarding against invasion of Mongolian troops from North China.

The Great Wall is comprised of various defensive buildings including rampart, watch tower, oasis town, fortress, commanding station, Balefire stages. It is an integral defensive project system. These buildings are invested with distinct features of Chinese traditional architecture in terms of its layout, construction, decorations and paintings. They reflect the extraordinary engineering techniques of ancient China.

The Great wall is also a reservoir of brilliant literature and art works in ancient China. A variety of artistic forms regarding Great Wall has come to existence continuously and spread far and wide. They include ancient poems, poetic essays, folk literature and dramas. The Great Wall has served as a symbol of the spirit of Chinese nation, precisely as what the saying goes, "He who has never been to the Great Wall is not a true man".