{"id":2435,"date":"2014-02-24T13:16:12","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T13:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/setcourseforchina.wordpress.com\/?p=2435"},"modified":"2014-02-24T13:16:12","modified_gmt":"2014-02-24T13:16:12","slug":"xians-muslim-quarter-and-drum-towers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/?p=2435","title":{"rendered":"Xi&#8217;an&#8217;s Muslim Quarter and Drum Towers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Within the city of Xi&#8217;an there is a strong Muslim community.\u00a0 Right in the heart of the city lies the Muslim Quarter- busy streets filled with Halal food surrounding the Grand Mosque.\u00a0 At night, everything comes alive and you can taste some famous Xi&#8217;an snack food.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/2014\/02\/dscf2742.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image\" id=\"i-2428\" alt=\"Image\" src=\"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/dscf2742.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lots of stores had dried fruit and nuts.\u00a0 You could even buy freshly roasted walnuts!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/2014\/02\/dscf2743.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image\" id=\"i-2429\" alt=\"Image\" src=\"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/dscf2743.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/2014\/02\/dscf2745.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image\" id=\"i-2430\" alt=\"Image\" src=\"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/dscf2745.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Muslim Quarter also had wonderful tofu.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not a tofu fan but the way they were preparing it, even I was tempted to try!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/2014\/02\/dscf2746.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image\" id=\"i-2432\" alt=\"Image\" src=\"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/dscf2746.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>However, the best part about that area is seeing the Drum and Bell Towers lit up at night!\u00a0 They are absolutely gorgeous.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/2014\/02\/dscf2749.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image\" id=\"i-2433\" alt=\"Image\" src=\"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/dscf2749.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/2014\/02\/dscf2750.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image\" id=\"i-2434\" alt=\"Image\" src=\"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/dscf2750.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Xi&#8217;an is such a historical city filled with pockets of diversity.\u00a0 It is refreshing to see the ancient and the new perfectly balanced within the city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Within the city of Xi&#8217;an there is a strong Muslim community.\u00a0 Right in the heart of the city lies the Muslim Quarter- busy streets filled with Halal food surrounding the Grand Mosque.\u00a0 At night, everything comes alive and you can taste some famous Xi&#8217;an snack food. Lots of stores had dried fruit and nuts.\u00a0 You [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}