Muslim Quarter Food Walk

What it is

The Xi'an food walk at its best hour: hongliu red-willow lamb skewers over charcoal, cold liangpi noodles in chilli vinegar, fresh-pressed pomegranate juice, and winter's frozen persimmon cakes — the Hui kitchen strung along one lane.

How to order like a local

Build the walk in stations: one skewer stall (charcoal hongliu lamb), one liangpi counter for cold-skin noodles in chilli vinegar, one press for pomegranate juice, and — in winter — a griddle warming frozen persimmon cakes. Point, pay, walk, repeat.

Good to know

Dusk, weekday if possible. One hundred yuan feeds two walkers to the point of regret.