Bye Bye Donkey Burgers: Xingfucun Food Favorites Given the Chop?
Last Friday night at around 7pm, I headed to one of my faithful dining stretches, Xingfucun, to grab some dinner. However, my hunger pangs were soon replaced with a disturbing feeling deep in the pit of my stomach upon realization that all of the small restaurants lining the narrow street were closed. I looked around: the April Gourmet on the opposite was still open and Big Smoke on the corner was still lit up. It was only this one side that had been plunged into darkness.
Zuimala has already taken down its sign
With hopes that this was just a one-off event, I headed to Xingfucun again this morning but it remained quiet, with no sign of life from any of the usual restaurants, including the ever-popular donkey burger shop and the next-door-neighbor spicy chuanr joint Zuimala (醉麻辣), the latter of which was sporting a note saying “renovation inside, closed.” Fine, except the main shopfront sign had also been pulled down.
029 is (temporarily?) closed, too
029 (零贰玖油泼面), a favorite Xi’an noodle chain among many, was also shut, but their staff remained (trapped?) inside, cleaning the windows. Upon asking a waitress what was going on, she replied “we might be open soon,” but wouldn't divulge any further information.
Let’s hope that they are in fact undergoing renovation and that life will return upon completion of the Lianghui.
For now, fans of 029 noodles and Zuimala may want to fill up at their other branches:
029 (零贰玖油泼面): B/1, U-Town Mall, Chaowai dajie
Zuimala (醉麻辣): 2/F Meilin Mansion, Bldg 6, Gongti East Road or 226-5 Dongzhimennei Dajie