Meat and Spice and Everything Nice
How do you describe this local delicacy? It is similar to a pizza, but is quite thick and does not have cheese nor tomato sauce. Instead, there are two different flavors: sweet and salty. Sweet has a filling of either red bean paste or rose filling. Chopped up spring onions/chives and ground up pork are sprinkled on the salty one. Both taste delicious. Generally, the salty one is 5 RMB and the sweet 4 RMB.
The method of cooking Xizhou baba is very unique. The round, flat dough is tossed onto a pan. The pan has burning wood both on top and on the bottom of it. No flipping required. It is truly a Xizhou-only food.
This particular shop, 老字号, was voted best Xizhou baba restaurant by the Microcampus students. Each baba is cut into six pieces. The chef, Mr. Yang, adds a lot of meat to the salty ones, and the crust is thin and crunchy. Mr. Yang has made baba for 13 years already, but does not particularly enjoy making the baba. However, it is the only method of earning an income he knows. When he was younger, he went to Lijiang and sold Xizhou baba, competing against the other Lijiang baba vendors (he claims that Xizhou baba is much better than Lijiang baba).
There are two other Xizhou baba shops in Sifang Jie. One is right next to Old Town Snacks, and the other is on the southern street of Sifang Jie.
The method of cooking Xizhou baba is very unique. The round, flat dough is tossed onto a pan. The pan has burning wood both on top and on the bottom of it. No flipping required. It is truly a Xizhou-only food.
This particular shop, 老字号, was voted best Xizhou baba restaurant by the Microcampus students. Each baba is cut into six pieces. The chef, Mr. Yang, adds a lot of meat to the salty ones, and the crust is thin and crunchy. Mr. Yang has made baba for 13 years already, but does not particularly enjoy making the baba. However, it is the only method of earning an income he knows. When he was younger, he went to Lijiang and sold Xizhou baba, competing against the other Lijiang baba vendors (he claims that Xizhou baba is much better than Lijiang baba).
There are two other Xizhou baba shops in Sifang Jie. One is right next to Old Town Snacks, and the other is on the southern street of Sifang Jie.