Xi'an Famous Foods 西安名吃

Food to die for! Cure for a serious hangover too I had a spicy beef with hand ripped noodles Best words only! Noodles to die for I could totally live on this

I got the spicy cumin lamb. Loved the spices. The lamb itself was okay. The meat and noodles were in big pieces so I used two forks to split them into bite sized pieces, which was a good idea. Way more noodles than healthy, so I didn't eat them all. Kind of loud music but some cute prints on the wall. Probably would get the same thing again next time because it seemed like one of the most flavorful options with all the spices. Would've been five stars except it was a little too hot for me to taste the flavor (but still tasted some flavor, which I enjoyed). I got regular spicy level. I came back and had the sweet and sour pork soup. I didn't like it. I couldn't taste the flavors of the spices at all on the noodles. I could taste the meat spices a little. I think the reason I couldn't taste the noodle spices maybe had to do with there being a lot of liquid in the soup, so I probably won't get the soups anymore (I could also confirm this theory by trying the sweet and sour pork without the soup and just noodles and see how that is, whether I can taste the flavor of the spices at all). Talked with the employee here and he said the meats are made elsewhere and they have some different spices, but the sauce they use for most the noodles and soups is the same. So, like, the bigger question is which meat you want, as the sauces are mostly the same. However he also said the dumplings and cucumber salad have different sauces than the noodles, so for those you'd have to try each to know if you like it. Also had the chrysanthemum and the haw teas. The haw tea is almost like soda. Tastes good but I'm guessing has a lot of sugar. The chrysanthemum tea is much milder and I like it more. It's an interesting nice taste. Not a soda though so don't expect that, although it does contain sugar. So I had the shredded pork noodles and the shredded pork was delicious. The noodles weren't as flavorful as I remember the noodles being for the spicy cumin lamb. Maybe it had to do with a little water being in the shredded pork noodles meal, which diluted the flavor, but I think a more likely explanation is that I got it with a mild spice whereas I got the spicy cumin lamb with regular spice level. (I could test this theory though.) My main reason for getting milder spicy level is so that I could taste the other flavors more, but it seems like when I do that then they just tone down all the flavors (maybe put less sauce or seasoning on it, which includes the spicy flavor but everything else foo) so my plan to get mild spicy probably backfired (again I could confirm this by trying a mild and a regular spicy dish side by side, but I'm pretty sure this is why this dish wasn't as flavorful). But yeah, the shredded pork meat itself was great.

As a gourmet from China, the taste here is original.

This is by far the worst Chinese food that I’ve had in nyc. I ordered their beef noodles and lamb dumplings. The beef was dry, the noodles were chewy and the dumplings had just too much seasoning that you couldn’t taste it. Definitely not going there again.

Came here for a quick bite. They have limited vegetarian options - we tried spinach dumplings and spicy hot oil seared noodles. The noodles were so delicious and completely knocked it out of the park. Service was great and the hostess was very polite. Will definitely come here again.