NPU Campus-area Reviews
These reviews describe some
of the places near the NPU campus (at the time of writing; I also can't guarantee that the
addresses are correct!). They were written by my Junior Writing class in
2003. (Word counts are approximate!)
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RESTAURANTS & COFFEE BARS
Popular Southern and
Northern Food—Jane
Sheng Li Restaurant is
located at #133 South Lao-dong Road. It offers customers famous southern
and northern food. Cold noodles, shredded pancakes in mutton and beef
soup, Huluto, and Qishan noodles are tasty and well-known Shaanxi
specialties. Meat and vegetables are always fresh. Sheng Li Restaurant
offers the best service to its customers, and the service is suitable for
the working class. In addition to bao-zi, fried cake, soybean milk,
and other delicious food for breakfast, popular southern food is also
provided, such as fish soup, fumed meat and chili, and sweet snacks. Due
to the variety of food available and the reasonable prices, Shen Li
Restaurant is a good mealtime choice, and it also provides you a good
chance to learn more about Chinese food and culture. I highly recommend
that you go there and give it a try.
Mellow Coffee Bar—Scarlet
Mellow Coffee Bar (located
at No. 132 You-yi Road near the NPU south gate) attracts customers by its
natural western drinks, cozy surroundings and romantic atmosphere. Mellow
and fragrant coffee makes this bar different from others, and can impress
you from the very first drink. In addition, you can have a large variety
of choices of delicate and spicy foods, such as apple pie and pine nuts.
Wing-like cane chairs, hung from the ceiling and covered with flowers, add
more interest to this seductive place. What is more, considerate
waitresses are always friendly, and they make you feel at home. The price
is rather dear, but Mellow Coffee Bar is really an imaginative place in
which to calm down and talk with friends. Go to that wonderland and enjoy
the relaxation today.
A Good Eating Place—Gary
Chuanwei Restaurant is an
extremely good eating place, serving a variety of good foods. “Chuanwei”
indicates that it mainly serves foods with a Sichuan flavor, and they are
enormously abundant and gorgeously delicious. Its specialties are as
follows: spicy chicken, meat with mushroom, Hebao eggs and sausages. Even
though it is renowned for its Sichuan foods, it does not confine itself to
them only; it had also introduced foods from elsewhere to add to its
diversity and offer more choices to the customers. In addition, the eating
environment is pretty elegant and gives you a feeling of relaxation and
enjoyment. Last but not least, the waitresses all have very good manners,
which makes you feel comfortable and respected so you can relish your
dinner without any misgivings. If you have been enticed by my description,
just go to Chuanwei Restaurant at 149 Taibai Road—a fantastic place with a
lot of distinctive traits.
Si Chuan Ren Restaurant—Bruce
Si Chuan Ren restaurant is
located at 20 South Lao-dong Road. It is a typical Sichuan flavor
restaurant. I like it and often go there. Most of the customers in the
restaurant are university students, so the price is not expensive. The
restaurant offers gaijiao food (i.e., your rice is free if you
order dishes) and fast food, which is convenient for customers to take
away. If you choose gaijiao food, you can choose from more than 20
dishes. A popular spicy pork dish called “nurou” is my favorite.
The fast foods there are also delicious. Si Chuan Ren restaurant also
serves several kinds of cakes, such as meat cake and apple cake. Si Chuan
Ren restaurant is a really good restaurant because it offers many kinds of
food for you to choose from and because the food is economically priced. I
highly recommend it!
Qishanmian Restaurant—Jim
I have been to lots of
restaurants outside our campus, but the one I like most is Qishanmian
Restaurant (128 West You-yi Road). It is located very near to NPU’s south
gate, so you need not cross any busy road. Inside Qishanmian Restaurant,
the spacious environment is very pleasant, which makes you feel
comfortable. Its special feast, Qishanmian Noodles, is the most delicious
food I have eaten. The restaurant offers not only noodles, but also
several other dishes, including rice, meat and fresh vegetables. Don’t
worry about the price. The dishes are economically priced for college
students. In addition, drinks are available, such as juice, beer and wine.
Just five minutes’ walk east of NPU’s south gate, you can experience the
inexpensive, comfortable environment and various delicious dishes of
Qishanmian Restaurant.
Xiao Sao Zi Da Hun Dun Restaurant—Hady
Xiao Sao Zi Da Hun Dun
Restaurant (located at 127-30 West You-yi Road) offers customers a variety
of low-priced cooked wheaten food, such as won tons, mashi
and fried steamed bread. These cooked wheaten foods are very tasty,
especially the won tons. Here you can also find various home-style
dishes, such as traditional bean curd and stir-fried greens. In addition,
Xiao Sao Zi Da Hun Dun Restaurant also provides delicious noodles made
from sweet potato starch and cooked in an earthenware pot. Furthermore,
the environment at the restaurant is very good. There are several separate
rooms available to give customers great privacy. Considering that Xiao Sao
Zi Da Hun Dun Restaurant can supply an inexpensive variety of delicious
food in such a pleasant environment, it is really an ideal place to enjoy
your meals.
Yong Ming Restaurant—Becky
Yong Ming Restaurant is a
traditional Xi’an noodles eatery, which is located at 128 West You-yi
Road. Noodles are the featured dish. In addition, it supplies customers
with popular low-priced dishes. When you begin to eat, the waitress will
give you a bowl of noodle soup, which can take the place of those
expensive soft drinks. Last year, the restaurant took some new measures.
It offers three sets of meals with the same low price. They can make you
fully enjoy yourself. On some days, the restaurant also sets up a lottery
for customers. Once I drew a winning ticket and got five yuan off
the price. If you are lucky enough, you will get 100,000 yuan. The
delicious noodles, the good service and the spacious environment make me
feel comfortable. Yong Ming Restaurant is really a wonderful place to
enjoy delicious noodles. You should go and have a try.
Yu Mi Zhi Xiang Restaurant—Evelyn
Yu Mi Zhi Xiang restaurant has an excellent
environment where you can fully enjoy the delicious dishes. This
restaurant has a very comfortable environment: the light is soft, the
tables and chairs are unique, and the beautiful waitresses will give you
the best service. In addition to the nice environment, it serves great
food. The most famous dish in this restaurant is fish, which can be cooked
in several different ways—and all of them are tasty! In addition, you can
have fresh vegetables and other kinds of traditional Chinese dishes here.
None of them will disappoint you and they will leave your mouth watering
for more! Yu Mi Zhi Xiang restaurant is located at 127-25 You Yi Road.
Whenever you want to have well-cooked fish at a wonderful place, it is
your best choice.
A-LI-SHAN Restaurant—Kiki
A-LI-SHAN Restaurant is a
food service place at 20 South Lao Dong Road, with tasty food, reasonable
prices and good service. It mainly provides Taiwanese cuisine, such as
Taiwanese roast meat, fried noodles and red bean porridge. Among these
foods, my favorite is the popular Taiwan-meaty-rice, which is also the
specialty of this restaurant. This dish is both delicious and nutritious
because it is a mixture of meat, rice and eggs with a strong Taiwanese
taste. Most of the dishes here cost less than ten yuan, which is
very reasonable and economical for us students. Besides, the pickles are
free! Waitresses here are friendly and considerate, giving customers a
comfortable environment. Due to the delicious food, attractive prices and
excellent service here, I strongly recommend A-LI-SHAN Restaurant to you.
Dicos Fried Chicken—Jenny
Dicos Fried Chicken
is a fast food chain in Xi’an. It is located at 229 North Tai Bai Road,
and it is close to NPU’s east gate. It offers its customers western-style
fast food, including fried chicken, burgers, chicken sandwiches, shakes
and sundaes. All of them are tasty and low-priced. As you enjoy the
delicious food, you can relax by listening to some charming music. The
service is most suitable for students and office workers. Dicos Fried
Chicken also provides take-away food. In addition, Dicos often gives
away discount food coupons for even greater savings. Due to the top
quality service and the genuine taste, many loyal customers love this fast
food restaurant! Dicos Fried Chicken is a good place to enjoy your
meals with family and friends.
Xiao Tian Di Restaurant—Kris
Xiao Tian Di Restaurant is
a small restaurant offering customers typical Chinese food. I often go
there with my friends due to the reasonable price and delicious food. As
soon as you sit at the table, a cup of hot tea is prepared for you. While
drinking you feel quite comfortable. Eggplant, scrambled egg, pot roast,
potato, etc, are served fast and taste great. Popular low-priced dishes
are suitable for both workers and students, and rice is free no matter how
much you eat. The waitress offers a warm smile and hospitality from the
moment you enter the restaurant to the end of your dinner. Thus, the whole
atmosphere of having dinner there makes you feel at home. For its price,
tasty food and considerate service, Xiao Tian Di Restaurant is really a
good place to enjoy your meals. I strongly suggest you go there to have
your dinner. (The restaurant is located in the center of Bai Miao Village.
Go across the street near the NPU South gate, then you arrive at Bai Miao
Road. Turn left on the second turning of Bai Miao Road and walk about 50m;
you will find the restaurant on your right.)
JieJie Pancake Restaurant—Ashley
JieJie Pancake Restaurant
is a comfortable and economical place where you can taste all kinds of
delicious dishes, including the unique ShaanXi pancake. After a waitress
takes your order, the dishes will be served in five minutes. The pancake
is the main attraction of the restaurant, for the pancake is soft, white
and thin. You just need to spend two yuan on every ten pancakes.
Jing-Jiang meat is especially popular because it tastes great when rolled
in the pancakes. The porridge is also nice. There is corn porridge,
mung bean porridge and maize porridge. You can put sugar in the
porridge to your taste. The environment is good. Beautiful pictures are
hung on the white walls and soft music swirls in the room. JieJie Pancake
Restaurant (127-26 West You-yi Road) welcomes you from 10:00 A.M. to 21:00
P.M. You can invite your friends and have a good meal at JieJie Pancake
Restaurant.
Xin Duo Ji Restaurant—Angela
Xin Duo Ji Restaurant is
located at 17-77 Lao Dong Road. It is a wonderful place to enjoy delicious
Chinese meals in a beautifully decorated atmosphere. It provides you with
many kinds of Chinese dishes, all of which are specially designed and
cooked. The crisp chicken looks golden in color, and it is quite inviting.
Xin Duo Ji Da Xiao Fu is both tasty and nutritious. It includes several
ingredients, like corn, chestnuts, shelled almonds, bamboo shoots, and
shrimp. Tangba fish is a splendid treat with lots of ingredients, such as
white gourd, carrots, dates, kelp, cabbage, and bamboo shoots. A dish
called harvest is suitable for vegetarians. There are only fresh
vegetables in it, and it is good for your health. Xin Duo Ji Restaurant
offers you delicious dishes, as well as a comfortable environment. The
waiters and waitresses are also very helpful. Though Xin Duo Ji is a
little pricey, it is an enjoyable place to have meals with your family and
friends.
SHOPS & NET BARS
An Attractive Gift
Shop—Belinda
“Love Season” is a warm and
fragrant gift shop. It is located at 48 Tai-bai Road. As its name
indicates, the shop is designed for people who want to show their love.
Although it is small, several fashionable gifts are available here, such
as exquisite ornaments, colorful accessories, lovely dolls, fashionable
hats, and beautiful flowers. All the shop assistants are friendly and
helpful, so you can always enjoy good service. Sweet smiles and a gracious
greeting show their warm welcome to you. When you consult them, they
always give you useful information. In addition, the shop offers you a
romantic atmosphere for shopping. Sweet sounding light music and a
well-decorated shop make you feel comfortable as you make your choices.
Various fashionable gifts, good service and a romantic shopping atmosphere
make “Love Season” a really attractive gift shop that is worth visiting.
Paradise CD Shop—Sunny
Paradise CD shop is a
fantastic and excellent place for music fans. It offers CDs in every form
of music: pop, rock and roll, symphony, ballads, etc. You can find almost
all the famous singers’ CDs from mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and
foreign countries. As a rock music fan, I like this shop very much. It has
a special counter for rock music. I can easily find my favorite bands and
singers. I can also read some books, which introduce rock music. If you
buy more than ten CDs from this shop, you will be a VIP there, and then
you will be given a discount of 10% for every CD. The boss there is also a
music fan himself, so his suggestions often help me find the perfect CD
for myself or for a gift. Paradise CD shop is located at 353 West You Yi
Road. Take the time to go there and expand your music world.
Zhongji Glasses Shop—Kobe
Zhongji glasses shop (127-3
West You-Yi Road) is really a wonderful place to buy glasses. First, it
sells a variety of glasses, such as sunglasses, long-distance glasses, and
contact-lenses. It can meet most people’s needs. Second, it provides very
careful and professional services, which is very helpful to customers,
especially if you have poor sight and want to buy a pair of long-distance
glasses. There is some professional equipment, so it is easy to get enough
information about your eyes; then the assistant will give you reasonable
advice according to the examination results. Finally, all their products
have a lifetime guarantee. If you find some problems with your glasses
later, bring them back; the shop will fix them for free. As a shop that
provides a variety of glasses, professional services and a great
guarantee, Zhongji glasses shop is your best choice for buying eyewear.
Xing Fu Drugstore—Patty
Many NPU students go to
Xing Fu drugstore when they fall ill. The owner hopes that people can be
free from diseases and lead a happy life, so he named it Xing Fu, which
means happiness in Chinese. Xing Fu Drugstore is next to the
southern gate of the campus (129 West You-yi Road), so it is convenient
for students to buy medicines or get some advice from the helpful doctors.
There are hundreds of medicines in the drugstore, though it is very small.
Doctors there are friendly, patient and helpful. Tell them your symptoms,
and they will diagnose what kind of illness it is, and sell you some
effective medicines. Furthermore, the medicines are clearly and
economically priced. For its close proximity to the campus, good service
from the doctors, and low prices of the medicines, it is a good choice to
go to Xing Fu Drugstore if you do not feel well.
Students’ Supermarket—Carole
The NPU Students’
Supermarket (at the east end of Qiu Shi Road) is the biggest store on our
campus for food and general merchandise. Everything we must use in our
daily lives can be found there. The most important thing is that the
prices there are cheaper than at other shops on our campus. Food items are
sold on the first floor, like chocolate, milk, biscuits and ham. I like
chocolate very much, so I always go there to buy Dove chocolate. Because
there are many shoppers everyday, the food there is very fresh. Some
useful everyday things are sold on the second floor, like notebooks, pens,
towels and soaps. I often go there to buy some music CDs and interesting
books. The Students’ Supermarket is really a very good place to buy things
that we must use everyday.
Fei Yi Net Bar—John
Fei Yi Net Bar (127-38 West
You-yi Road, Xi’an) is a good entertainment place for surfing the Internet
and playing games. It offers customers four different services: regular
service, VIP service, morning service and overnight service. Regular
service is the most common one. It costs you two yuan per hour. VIP
service is better and cheaper in the long run than regular service. Every
fifty hours you just need to pay thirty-five yuan. The morning
service is from 8 A.M. to 12 P.M., which just costs you four yuan
altogether. Compared to the former three choices, overnight service is the
cheapest one. Ten hours just costs you six or eight yuan. In
addition, Fei Yi Net Bar also provides customers with water and a
comfortable room temperature so that you can really enjoy yourself. Fei Yi
Net Bar is really a good place to surf the Internet or play games.
Fei Yi Cyber Café—Jordan
Fei Yi Cyber Cafe (127B
West You Yi Road) is not a good net bar in terms of price and atmosphere.
Its computers on the first and second floor do not have the same quality
standard. On the first floor most of the computers have an Intel Pentium
Four installed inside, while on the second floor Fei Yi provides some used
computers which always work slowly and go dead occasionally. It makes
users frustrated when playing games or surfing the Internet. Nonetheless
the boss asks for the same price on both floors! In addition, there is
always a strange mixture of smoke and other bad smells in the air because
there is not enough air ventilation. Fresh air is always a luxury in Fei
Yi. It is hard for people to enjoy themselves at Fei Yi Cyber Cafe because
of its inadequate equipment and its bad environment. If you want to relax
in a net bar, I recommend that you find someplace better than Fei Yi.
Tian Chi Net Bar—Jimmy
Tian Chi Net Bar (88 Lao
Dong Road) is one of the biggest net bars in Xi’an. It has more than 200
high-speed computers, and has professional Internet connecting services,
so you can enjoy a very high speed when surfing the Internet. It also
provides many convenient services. Every computer has a USB-disk jack that
makes downloading easily. If you have some trouble in operating a
computer, Tian Chi has a professional staff to solve your problem. At
lunchtime and suppertime, Tian Chi provides free drinks. If you like, you
can order some Chinese foods from the counter and eat them in front of the
screen. If you want to kill time, Tian Chi also provides hundreds of
movies and the latest games for you. Due to the high-speed Internet access
and convenient services, Tian Chi is a really good net bar.
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