Founder Mikhail Goncharov said the recipe for the new pancakes was thought up by his mother as an attempt by a Russian to get in touch with Chinese culinary culture.
The name "Yangzi" was taken from the Yangzi River because "Russians are familiar with this long river in China," he said. "The name is more symbolic."
In recent years, as the pace of Chinese culture has accelerated, Chinese food has also gradually conquered the taste buds of the world.
China's spicy hot pot has become a "top stream" in South Korea
This summer, Chinese spicy hot pot suddenly became a "top stream" in South Korea.
Because of the Korean saying that "heat makes heat" (meaning eating hot food in hot weather to sweat away the heat), spicy hot pot is widely welcomed by young Koreans, especially Korean junior high and high school girls, for spicy hot pot's popularity has exceeded that of Korea's traditional snacks fried rice cake.
Because unlike spicy fried rice cake, turkey spicy rice cake and other high-carbon water spicy food, spicy hot meat and vegetables, nutrition is more balanced. During the epidemic, the number of spicy hot pot stores rose rather than fell, spreading almost all over South Korea, despite the chill in restaurant ventures.
Related sources believe that in the economic downturn, more and more consumers want to relieve their depressed mood, so spicy food, which helps to relieve stress, is popular.
Shaanxi "biangbiang" noodles become popular in Japan
In recent years, more and more authentic Chinese snacks, such as pan-fried dumplings, knife-shaved noodles and Lanzhou ramen noodles, have made their way to the tables of Japanese people. Among them, the traditional Shaanxi snack "biangbiang noodles" is quite popular. The snack has not only appeared on the menus of many Chinese restaurants, but has also been developed into new products by famous convenience stores.
In 2020, 7-11 convenience stores in Tokyo and some stores in Chiba Prefecture launched a limited-edition product called "biangbiang noodles," which became a trending topic on Twitter. Instead of instant noodles, they offer boxed biangbiang noodles made with fresh ingredients and served the same day, with a taste that is comparable to the store's biangbiang noodles.
File photo of "biangbiang noodles"
Additionally, "biangbiang noodles" have been featured many times on popular Japanese programs. In addition to its good taste, the character "biang" is also a hot topic of discussion: there are 57 strokes alone, and computers can't even type the character because of its complex structure.
Not only Japan, but also the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) published an article on its Web site, "Xi'an food: A Chinese noodle dish with a name you can't spell," in which it reported in detail on the process by which the masters of Xi'an's street noodle stores make "biangbiang noodles.
In recent years, social media interest in the word "biang" has helped the dish become widely known, the report said. The word "biang," with its many strokes, is not an official Chinese character, but the noodles, which have a distinctive shape and flavor, have become "popular around the world.
"Guizhou rice noodles" epidemic in the U.S. against the trend of expanding stores
For the U.S. sell Guizhou Huaxi beef noodle Chen Yuzhu, the new Crown pneumonia epidemic is a crisis but also an opportunity. He is known as the "Guizhou rice noodle brother" in the United States, the restaurant operated in the post-epidemic era did not choose to "cut off the arm to survive", but against the trend to open stores.
"Before the epidemic in the United States opened nine stores, the epidemic occurred after the opening of four stores."
Flushing is the largest concentration of Asian residents in New York, U.S. Chen Yuzhu's first beef noodle store opened in Flushing's food court in 2013.
The photo shows Chen Yuzhu's Guizhou Huaxi Beef Noodle Shop in the United States. Photo by interviewee
After the 2020 New Crown Pneumonia outbreak, Chen Yuzhu's beef noodle business increased rather than decreased. "Sales have doubled six or seven times compared to before the epidemic, and some stores can outsell thousands of bowls of beef noodle in a single day." Chen Yuzhu said the soup, meat and powder are packaged separately, and it only takes two minutes of heating to get a bowl of flavorful Guizhou Huaxi beef noodle.
"There is an American customer who often comes to the store to eat the noodles and loves Chinese culture and Chinese food, and he also wants to join our beef noodle store."
Dumplings, ramen growing in popularity in France
On the opposite side of France's largest auction house in Paris, there is a northeastern dumpling restaurant, where a number of artists talk about the business of auctioning international artworks. One diner wrote on social media, "The highest-end business often requires only dumplings with wine."