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Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Dumplings in Xi'an


Xi'an is a wheat growing region in China and so while meals come with rice just as you would expect , but there are a lot of noodles and dumplings.  The hotel had a noodle soup station at the breakfast buffet, with a man who took a small wad of dough, repeatedly kneaded it, and then quite dramatically stretched it and stretched it into dozens of individual noodles.  The end product was the best noodle soup that I have ever had, but in truth, watching the noodles being made was even better.
Xi'an is known for it's uniquely shaped dumplings and we spent one night at a dumpling restaurant that highlighted that speciality.  The duck dumplings are in the shape of ducks, the ham dumplings are in the shape of pigs, and there are very elaborate versions of all the various meats and vegetables that the dumplings contain.  Sometimes they are better to look at than they are to eat, but the best combination is that they are both beautiful and delicious.



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