In the fast-paced and colorful life of modern society, people no longer regard snacks as just "belly meals", but as a way to enjoy delicious food and balance diet, in which the world, friendship, affection and sentiment are all integrated.
The Central Plains of northern Shaanxi is a fertile land known as "800 Li Qinchuan". There are many kinds of snacks made of various cooking materials, all of which have different anecdotes and are depicted as beautiful pictures of food culture.
In spring, there are shepherd's purse jiaozi, spring rolls with shredded pork and chives, silver spring cakes, fried fish with Toona sinensis and steamed rice with elm money. In summer, there are jade noodles, mung bean vermicelli, cold rice noodles, basin of mutton and oil noodles; In autumn, there are Qin-style moon cakes, fire crystal persimmons, radish cakes, yellow osmanthus sugar rice lotus roots and double ninth festival flower cakes; In winter, there are sheep blood noodle soup, gourd head paomo, assorted yuanxiao, fried dumplings, and imperial concubine egg-flower mash.
There are many representative traditional snacks in Guanzhong, such as jiaozi mutton bubble, bean curd noodles, persimmon meat buns, stuffed buns, glutinous rice cakes with thick wine, sesame oil crisp cakes and so on. Taking Paomo as an example, Guanzhong area is good at making a variety of snacks in Paomo, with outlets all over urban and rural areas. Among them, Xi 'an's beef and mutton bread in soup is the most famous, and it is praised as "the three wonders of China" by guests at home and abroad together with dumplings and snacks.
Paomo, also known as "boiled bun", is characterized by thick carrion soup, no fishy smell, rich fragrance, smooth and chewy, which is suitable for all ages in Xian Yi. In addition, there are steamed stuffed bun with fried meat, steamed stuffed bun with three fresh meats, steamed stuffed bun with red meat, steamed stuffed bun with different sizes, steamed stuffed bun with beef and mutton, boiled steamed stuffed bun with boiled meat, steamed stuffed bun with eel and seafood, each with its own flavor characteristics.
Xi 'an's Hulutou paomo can be divided into two categories: miscellaneous meat and seafood. It was named after Sun Simiao's "Medicine Gourd" and the pig's large intestine head in the Tang Dynasty. The taste is clear and refreshing, the fragrance is soft, and it has high health care effect. Healthy people can keep fit if they eat it. People who are weak and sick and have gastrointestinal diseases can be used as medicinal diet and dietotherapy. Practice has proved that the effect is not bad, and old people often lead the whole family to eat.
Northern Shaanxi lies between the central loess plateau and the desert grassland. Since ancient times, animal husbandry has been developed, and yellow land is most suitable for planting coarse grains, which are more than flour and rice. The original coarse grains are not as delicious as flour and rice. For thousands of years, people have tried to cook them carefully, so they are not rough. Men, women and children like to eat them.
Its representative flavor snacks include miscellaneous grains pasta series, jujube pie, Qian Qian rice, refined buckwheat noodles, bean rice, potatoes, millet noodles, bowls, jujube cakes, chopped buckwheat noodles, fried cakes, northern Shaanxi rice wine, sour rice, glutinous rice, glutinous rice, glutinous rice.