The biggest bowl of noodles appeared in the streets of Dongchuan. Reporter Zhou Zhiyu/photo

Kunming Information Hong Kong News reporter He Zhouzhiyu On October 21th, the second Dongchuan Food Festival opened in Dongchuan Food Street. At the event site, cadres and masses in Dongchuan District shared a bowl of freshly cooked Dongchuan noodles, staged colorful noodles and thousands of people who ate noodles. In addition, the world's largest outdoor installation art, a bowl of noodles, and the world's largest special-shaped light box in the United States, which is applying for Guinness World Records, also appeared.

face, it's about to be put in the pot. Photo courtesy

At the scene, three huge copper pots are arranged in a row, and the spring water from Guniu Mountain (Fuzhai Mountain) is put into a large pot to boil. The lid is lifted, and the fog is transpiration, which is very spectacular. Each of the three cauldrons weighs 181 kilograms and has a diameter of 1.8 meters. The production took nearly 111 hours.

There are still 12 noodles hanging on the scene, which are particularly eye-catching in the food court. In addition to traditional noodles, there are unique colored noodles, arranged by color. ; Orange is carrot noodles, bright yellow is pumpkin noodles, dark yellow is buckwheat noodles, green is spinach noodles, purple is purple cabbage noodles, and pink is a mixture of various fruits and vegetables. These colorful noodles are delicious and healthy. ; The reporter learned that there are nearly a thousand kinds of noodles in Dongchuan according to different classifications. Due to the limited space, only 299 species were exhibited at the scene.

have you tried this kind of noodles? Reporter Zhou Zhiyu/photo

Liu Zhongjie, deputy secretary and deputy director of the Party Working Committee of Tongdu Street in Dongchuan District, introduced that this year's food festival relied on the poverty alleviation and pioneering park of Tongdu Street to introduce restaurants, night markets, local products exhibitions, tourist receptions, city exhibitions, e-commerce platforms, flea markets, children's parks and mass cultural performances into the food street area. While creating a characteristic block in the city, it also promotes employment and poverty alleviation, forming a street, a park and a park

The food festival venue is divided into dense snack areas with 161 stalls. Dongchuan Tute famous snack club is in the dining area of poverty alleviation and pioneer park. Whether it is the dining area of the poverty alleviation pioneer park or the agricultural specialty area of the flea market, the whole food street provides different kinds of preferential assistance conditions such as employment, commodity sales, entrepreneurial learning and so on for the poor households who have set up their cards. By combining the aid package with entrepreneurship research, poor households can increase their family income.

The world's largest bowl of noodles in China appears in Dongchuan, or will be recorded in Guinness Book of Records.

At the opening ceremony of the Food Festival, a large bowl of noodles with a diameter of 12.2 meters and a height of 12.8 meters, whose overall shape was provoked by chopsticks, was officially unveiled. It is reported that choosing this facet as the cultural representative of Dongchuan makes Dongchuan more friendly and makes Dongchuan different. This large outdoor installation will become a new landmark of Dongchuan.

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It is reported that this bowl of noodles weighs more than 71 tons. The idea originated from Dongchuan, the United States has a history of 3111 years of copper smelting, so the colors of copper and brass were adopted as the keynote. Twenty-four large noodles symbolizing the 24 veins with the highest copper grade in Dongchuan are inlaid with 24 pictures, forming a palette left by God in the world. The panorama of Dongchuan is red land. Dongchuan noodle will become the largest outdoor installation art noodle known in the United States, and it will also be the largest special-shaped light box in the world. At present, it has applied for Guinness World Records.

At the same time, this noodle shop will become the first road travel reception service center in Yunnan Province since the Dongchuan mud and stone cross-country car race on May 1 this year.

According to statistics, in October last year, the number of visitors to the first Dongchuan Food Festival reached 148,111, while the permanent population of Dongchuan City was only over 51,111. Dongchuan Food Festival

According to reports, including Dongchuan Food Street, three districts and counties in Kunming have successfully built food blocks. This food street in Dongchuan, located in the main road of traffic, is particularly concentrated in merchants, surrounded by newly-built real estate, and soon gathered popularity and hot topics. ; In the future, every district and county in Kunming should build at least one food street and hold food theme activities once a week. A delicious and fun food party like Dongchuan today will become the daily life of Kunming people. ;

Bi Tianshun, secretary of the Party Working Committee of Tongdu Street in Dongchuan District, said that the food festival was held to speed up the construction of Sanmei Dongchuan Venture Capital in Dongchuan District, further promote the characteristic food culture, build the original ecological national cultural brand, and promote the healthy and sustainable development of the tertiary industry. Provide an entrepreneurial platform for entrepreneurs full of entrepreneurial enthusiasm, and take the festival as an opportunity to focus on the important measures of Dongchuan cuisine. The goal is to realize the vision of "making people popular and promoting tourism through festivals", so that agricultural development and leisure tourism can be organically combined, the primary industry and the tertiary industry can be seamlessly connected, and efforts should be made to realize that local people have a place to relax, foreigners have a hope to travel, and farmers become rich, and to explore new ways of integrated development of global tourism and precision poverty alleviation.

the children are having a good time. Photo courtesy

It is reported that Dongchuan Food Festival will last for five days from October 21th to October 25th, and * * * will set up 161 special food stalls. This is also a special event for Dongchuan to welcome the Spring Festival in the Year of the Rooster, which is full of strong flavor of the Year.

What are the food specialties in Dongchuan, Yunnan

The local specialties in Dongchuan mainly include the following: Dongchuan craft products Dongchuan eggplant Xiaojiang watermelon Dongchuan cucumber Dongchuan tomato Dongchuan garlic Dongchuan black soil bean Dongchuan noodles Dongchuan tea Dongchuan tea comes from Dongchuan. 155-79111 record: Shenquan small group, produced in Dongchuan (now Dongchuan, Yunnan). ; ; Shenquan Xiaotuan ranked sixth among the 51 famous teas in Tang Dynasty. Nowadays, in Tangdan, Yin Min, Shekuai, Awang and other places in Dongchuan, there is an old tea tree called Laoying Tea.