Food Notes
Yangrou Paomo: Tearing Your Way Through Xi’an’s Iconic Lamb and Bread Soup
I first ate yangrou paomo on a December night so cold that the steam from the Muslim Quart…
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I first ate yangrou paomo on a December night so cold that the steam from the Muslim Quart…
I found jiucai hezi on my fourth morning in Xi’an, by pure accident. I had been walk…
I found Qin Su by accident, which is how the best things in Xi’an usually find you. …
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I didn’t go to Xi’an looking for taihou bing. I found it by accident on my thi…
I found chuan the same way everyone finds chuan in Xi’an: by my nose. It was my firs…
The first thing that woke me up in Xi’an was not my alarm clock – it was a pot…
It was the smell that got me first. On my first cold evening in Xi’an I was drifting…
I met shuijing bing on a grey November afternoon in Xi’an, when the first winter chi…