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Xi an street food compilation yangrou paomo sesame brittle
Paomo (Chinese: 泡馍; pinyin: pàomó; literally: "soaked mó") is a specialty of Shaanxi cuisine and is a typical food eaten in the city of Xi'an. It is a hot stew of chopped-up steamed leavened bread (known regionally as mo or mantou, simplified Chinese: 馍; traditional Chinese: 饃; pinyin: mó or simplified Chinese: 馒头; traditional Chinese: 饅頭; pinyin: mántóu), cooked in lamb broth and served with lamb meat, sometimes substituted with beef.
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- Xi an street food compilation yangrou paomo sesame brittle
- Xi an muslim quarter restaurant eating yangrou paomo
- Legend
- References
Yangrou Paomo (flat bread soaked in lamb soup; simplified Chinese: 羊肉泡馍; traditional Chinese: 羊肉泡饃; pinyin: Yángròu pàomó) is made of lamb soup and a great amount of flat bread. When making this dish, the cook breaks the bread into small pieces and adds them to the lamb soup. The beef version is niurou paomo (simplified Chinese: 牛肉泡馍; traditional Chinese: 牛肉泡饃; pinyin: Niúròu pàomó). Paomo is often eaten with pickled garlic and chili sauce.
Xi an muslim quarter restaurant eating yangrou paomo
Legend
One legend about its origin is that in the late five dynasties in China, Zhao Kuangyin who became the emperor of the Song Dynasty nation returned to his hometown after seeing his fiancée off. He had consumed most of his food and money on the journey. He had only two pieces of inedible big hard bread. His party went through a shop selling lamb soup and broke the bread in pieces and added it to the soup.
When he became emperor he returned to the small shop and asked the cook to make it again. After the meal, the emperor could not hide his happiness and named it Flat Bread Soaked in Lamb Soup.
