Paomo
Paomo is a specialty of Shaanxi cuisine and is a typical food eaten in the city of Xi'an and other cities of Guanzhong. It is a hot stew of chopped-up steamed leavened flat bread (known regionally as "mo" () or "mantou" ()), cooked in lamb broth and served with lamb meat, sometimes substituted with beef. Lamb "paomo" () is made of lamb soup and a great amount of leavened flat bread. When making this dish, the cook breaks the bread into small pieces and adds them to the lamb soup. The beef version is beef "paomo" (). "Paomo" is often eaten with  pickled garlic and chili sauce. Legend. One folktale about its origin is that in the late Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, Zhao Kuangyin, the Song dynasty's first emperor, returned to his hometown after seeing his betrothed. He had finished up most of his supply on the way back. He had only two pieces of dried plain pancake. He went through a merchant selling lamb soup; Zhao tore the bread into little pieces and mixed it into the soup. After Zhao Kuangyin became the emperor, he returned to the small merchant place and asked the chief to make the  soup again. After eating this old flavor, the freshness and the old memory interwind his heart. He named it "lamb paomo."