Biang Biang Noodles: The Slap You Can Hear Down the Lane

Wide hand-pulled belt noodles, chili flakes hit with smoking rapeseed oil and a splash of black vinegar — the Shaanxi street bowl named after the sound of dough hitting wood.

By Zhouyang · Shanghai

Rou Jia Mo: Xi'an's 2,000-Year-Old Burger That Puts the Golden Arches to Shame

The vendor pulls a flatbread from the clay oven with bare hands — bare hands, because calluses earned over forty years don’t register 300 …