Yang Rou Pao Mo (Pita Bread Soaked in Lamb Soup)

Although Shaanxi cuisine is not included in eight major cuisines of the country, Shaanxi cuisine has its own style and strong characteristics of local place. Foods of Shaanxi are famous for diversified types, different tastes and ancient styles.

So far, relique of over 10 dynasties such as Zhou, Qin, Han and Tang are kept in Shaanxi, such as crispy pastry baked on hot cobbles in Guanzhong inherits the cobble cooking style of ancient people, and noodles with ground pork which was known as long-life noodles in Tang Dynasty and was used by royal family to celebrate the birthdays.

Even the dried persimmon, which appeared late, has a history of over 400 years. In particular, the cooking technique has achieved long-footed progress with the technical development in the past 20 years since the reform and opening up.

Hundreds of traditional cuisines and innovative cuisines had appeared. Banquet with different styles were created, such as Tang banquet, dumpling banquet, palace banquet, scorpion banquet, soup with bread banquet, banquet of eight landscapes of Chang'an and local flavor snacks banquet of Shaanxi.

Shaanxi's snacks such as Yang Rou Pao Mo (Pita Bread Soaked in Lamb Soup), Chinese Hamburg, steamed cold noodles, Noodle with Pork and pancake are famous worldwide.