Why only Guangyuan has cold noodles with rice noodles?
Someone once tasted it outside Guangyuan, and it tasted terrible. After several tests, no one dared to make cold noodles outside Guangyuan, and cold noodles became a specialty of Guangyuan. According to legend, Wu Meiniang (formerly known as Wu Zetian), the daughter of a military commander in the Ministry of Industry, was chosen as a talent by Emperor Taizong at the age of 14. At that time, because of your fate, she had to leave her childhood sweetheart Chang Jianfeng. When Wu Meiniang was a child, he often swam around the river bend with his sword-edge, and there was a noodle restaurant at the river bend ferry. Every time they swim across the river, they always go to the noodle restaurant to eat a bowl. So I got acquainted with the shopkeeper and often talked about the making of noodles while eating. After a period of time, I also have a deeper understanding of this. Later, they thought it would be good to eat cold noodles in summer. So I experimented with the pastry chef and finally developed a soft and delicious rice skin, rice paste, soft and glutinous, tough and non-sticky. Mei Niang and Jianfeng embraced happily. When the noodle chef saw this, he joked with the two young couples: This noodle is not as good as "cold noodles with husband and wife rice". It happened to be Mei Niang's birthday that day, and cold noodles with husband and wife rice was born. This spread and became the most popular food in the area. Later, Mei Niang went to Chang 'an, Kyoto. Although she and Chang Jianfeng never became husband and wife, the couple's cold face was passed down. Later, when Wu Meiniang became the female emperor, she was still obsessed with "cold noodles with rice for husband and wife". On her birthday, she ordered the chef to cook a bowl for her to eat, so that she could last until her birthday. Now, Guangyuan, Wu Zetian's hometown, still widely eats the steamed cold noodles of Empress, but it is almost difficult to eat authentic steamed cold noodles of Empress in other places. Supplement: He grinds rice into pulp and then puts it in a steamer. After steaming, he took it out and put it on the chopping board to make it smooth. He cut it into slender strips with a knife, then put salt, monosodium glutamate, soy sauce, vinegar, Chili oil and other seasonings in a bowl and eat it with noodles. Because steamed cold noodles can be eaten both hot and cold, it avoids the pain of eating hot noodles in summer and is deeply loved by Wu Zetian. It is precisely because this snack is related to Wu Zetian. So it's also called the queen steaming cold noodles. This snack, which has been circulated for thousands of years, is still loved by Guangyuan people. What is even more peculiar is that this snack is only available in Guangyuan, and foreigners have tried to make it, but it has never been successful. Because the water quality in Guangyuan is alkaline, it just makes steamed cold noodles taste the best. Because the steamed cold noodles in Guangyuan are made of rice, which is different from the cold noodles made of flour in other areas. Steamed cold noodles are made of polished rice. After washing the rice, soak it in clean water for one day, add110 rice, then grind it into moderate pulp and steam it in a steamer with fried cloth. After steaming, pour it on a table covered with sesame oil or vegetable oil. Cool and cut into strips. This kind of cold noodles is chewy, refreshing and can be eaten in many ways. The most common way to eat is; Put the cold noodles in a bowl, add seasonings such as soy sauce, balsamic vinegar, pepper, spicy oil, sesame oil, white sugar, pepper noodles, garlic water (garlic paste+water), and stir to make it taste sour, sweet, hemp, spicy and fragrant. Sichuan flavor is very popular with local people. Eat cold food in summer and hot food in winter! It tastes sour and sweet (some people like to put some sugar, but personally feel the taste is average), spicy and spicy, appetizing and refreshing, and lasting. Steamed cold noodles are often confused with cold noodles and cold noodles. In fact, they are different foods.