Meat buns
In fact, there is such a saying that it is called "steamed bun" in the early days, because it sounds like "no meat" in the Xi'an dialect. However, the name "Meat Sandwich Bun" actually originated from the abbreviation of "meat sandwich bun" in ancient Chinese, and it is not as bizarre as it is legendary. Abroad, it is even called Chinese hamburger.
Steamed pork buns, meat dumplings, and Tongguan meat steamed buns are all typical Shaanxi meat steamed buns, and in Xi'an, they are especially popular with cured meat and steamed buns. This meat sandwich bun is composed of marinated bacon and baiji bun, and its shell is crispy and soft, and the bacon is fragrant and juicy. A good meat sandwich bun pays attention to "three points of meat, seven points of cake", and the cake with meat is very important to the taste. After the finished product, the white Ji bun is known as the "steel ring tiger back chrysanthemum core", and the prototype of the bun is crisp and hard and white, and the pattern gradually appears in it. The bacon broth is soaked in fluffy naan, giving it a plump and rich taste. On the streets of Xi'an, you can often see crispy meat sandwich buns, which are derived from Laotongguan meat sandwich buns. This kind of steamed bun has a crispy skin, quite like a mille-feuille baked cake, and when you bite into it, the meat and cake will fill your mouth and a lot of cake crumbs will fall, which is one of the pleasures of eating it in the eyes of fans of crispy meat sandwich buns.
The marinated bacon in the meat bun usually uses pork belly as the main ingredient, but due to the large number of local Hui people in Xi'an, many restaurants will also launch mutton meat buns, which have a more unique flavor, but the taste is worse than that of pork belly buns. Almost all meat and bun shops in Xi'an will offer three ways to choose ingredients: ordinary, lean or high-quality. The difference between them is that ordinary meat sandwich buns are fat and thin; Pure lean only lean meat, slightly drier; High-quality meat buns are juicy and juicy.
