Everyone comes to Xi'an for the Terracotta Army and stays for Beiyuanmen, the Muslim Quarter's food street, where the Hui community has been perfecting lamb skewers, persimmon doughnuts and hand-pulled biangbiang noodles for roughly a millennium. The street ignites after dark — all steam, cleavers and neon signage. Do as locals do with a roujiamo, the original meat sandwich, then walk it off around the floodlit Bell Tower. Bring cash or Alipay; cards are useless here.
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