Food Notes
Roujiamo: Biting Into the ‘World’s Oldest Hamburger’ in Xi’an
It was the smell that got me first. On my first cold evening in Xi’an I was drifting…
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It was the smell that got me first. On my first cold evening in Xi’an I was drifting…
The first time I stood at the railing of Pit 1 at the Terracotta Army, I was three rows de…
I still remember the exact second I first met the Vairocana Buddha at Fengxian Temple. I h…
I met shuijing bing on a grey November afternoon in Xi’an, when the first winter chi…
I’d been to Xi’an twice before — once for 48 hours on a work trip, once for a …
I fell for tieguo dun on a freezing December night in Xi’an. I had spent the evening…
I met shi bing on a Friday afternoon in mid-October, my first trip to Xi’an. Autumn …
I still remember the afternoon I fell for liangpi. It was late July in Xi’an, the ki…
Getting into the Shaanxi History Museum took me longer than getting to China. For two week…
