If you enter a Kaorou restaurant, you will find or be recommended by waiter one special pie of Hui minority. Captivating appearance (fried golden exterior, but tender interior!!) and cheap.
RMB2 for one plate.

Yes, don't forget to taste Kaorou if you have the chance to visit the Drum Tower and Big Mosque that are close to the Snack Street. And especially in the evening, you will find many foreigners like you there. They are also pulled together by this delicious and cheap food.

Still the most famous of the Jia Brothers' restaurants, you'll know you're there when you see the monstrous blue arch over the entrance and a wall festooned with photographs of Xi'an notables -- TV hosts, writers, and musicians. The specialty dish is guantang baozi, with a choice of beef, lamb or "three flavors" -- lamb, mushroom, and prawn. The dumplings have piping-hot soup inside, so let them cool before testing your chopstick skills. This dish is best washed down with ba bao xifan, a sweet rice porridge filled with peanuts, sultanas, hawthorn, and medlar berries.

Cuisine: Muslim

Hours 7:30am-midnight

Address: Bei Yuan Men

Location: 135m/150 yd. north of Drum Tower, on the east side, Around Town

Prices: Meal for 2 less than ¥20 ($2.50)

To have the dilicious food and wine in Xi'an is indeed a pleasure and also a mearis to learn about food culture. The most interesting place is the Local Snacks Street(Hui Min Jie) near the Drum Tower, the most famous Muslem snacks street in Xi'an. On the two sides of the 200-m street, there are many restaurants of different cuisines and snack shops of different flavors. Here tourists can have the true Muslem cuisine and snacks, including mutton soup with cake,sausage, mutton and porridge. While having food tourists can learn customs of the Hui nationality.

Tongshengxiang Beef and Lamb Paomo Restaurant and Fangshangren are the famous and recommended places to have this tasty snack.
In the Bell and Drum Tower Square, you can easily find Tongshenxiang which is built in Tang style.