Eating in Xi'an

We were not terribly adventurous with food in Xi'an.

For lunch, we stayed with basic dim sum, instead of the dumpling buffet which Xi'an is famous for. Some how, dim sum is, well, dim sum, no matter how one tries to stretch the imagination. Eating 60 baskets of dim sum is, well, eating 54 more baskets of the same thing as the 6 we happily put away.


For dinner, we stuffed ourelves silly on Xi'an Roast Duck.Yes, the entire duck is carved and served up. Yes, you wrap as many servings as you want. Since we were only 2 demolishing an entire duck, I'd say we ate to our heart's content. We love this departure from the Beijing Duck protocol where you get only the skin (with attendant lump of fat) while the rest of the duck gets made into soup, noodle, vegetable flavouring etc. I say when we want roast duck, give us the WHOLE roast duck!

Dinner is complete with familiar side orders of vegetables, fried rice and (why not?) jiaozi.

We really enjoyed the familiarity of comfort food in Xi'an. I know. We are such culinary bores.