In the early morning, people in Lanzhou are used to ordering a bowl of steaming beef noodles for breakfast. After eating the noodles, they drink all the soup and water. Satisfied, wipe the red chili pepper on the corners of your mouth, and the fine sweat on your forehead, and then start your day's life and work.
In Lanzhou, when people eat beef noodles, they can always meet familiar faces in familiar noodle restaurants. Maybe it's a classmate, meet for a few minutes and finish eating together to get to school or you'll be late; If you meet a colleague, both sides will humbly pay the bill; If you meet a new neighbor next door, you nod your head and say hello: "Hey, are you coming to eat beef noodles, too?" The distance between the two sides has narrowed a lot in an instant.
when I was in junior high school, I was in the growth and development period. Every morning, I want a bowl of beef noodles. Eat it in the morning and at noon. It's big and wide, thin and wide, wide and dripping, leek leaves, two fine and three fine ... I'm not tired of eating every meal.
At that time, my mother saved money to open a beef noodle restaurant in the town. The store was small and there were many people eating noodles. The stools in the shop couldn't sit down, so everyone squatted on the street in front of the door to eat. Especially when it snows in winter, several rows of people crouch in the snow, goose feathers and snow float into the bowl, and a layer of frost is formed on the top of their heads and eyebrows, regardless. The bowl is steaming hot, and beef noodles are poured into their stomachs.
I'm in a hurry to go to school, and I usually ask my mother to finish cooking beef noodles for me. Squatting in the snow with these people, holding the bowl in both hands while heating the hand, while sending beef noodles into the mouth with the hot air, and finally satisfying the breath. My whole body is comfortable, my heart is hot, and I don't feel cold in the cold winter.
Later, when I was on a business trip, I rushed in when I saw the sign of "Lanzhou Beef Noodles", but I always left with infinite sadness. I travel all over the country and eat noodles, but I always feel that they are not as delicious as Lanzhou's noodles. Why? Because "Lanzhou pasta is the best in the world", of course, you can think that this is my personal preference.
Lanzhou people love beef noodles so much, and the core is that Lanzhou beef noodles are really delicious. It is famous for its unique flavor of "the soup mirror is clear, the rotten meat is fragrant, and the fine noodles are refined" and wuhuang, which is clear, white, red and green. The real Lanzhou beef noodles are very particular, and the soup and ingredients are strictly regulated. In the process of boiling, the floating foam will be removed continuously to keep the soup clear. Although every time the price rises, it will make a scene. But today, I just said that I would not eat the price increase, and tomorrow I will scamper again, and I will fly together.
different people have different requirements for beef noodles. Some pursue the taste of soup. Some pursue the taste of noodles. There is also a special one for those spoonfuls of oil added to beef noodles. Everyone has their own noodle restaurant with fixed preferences. After staying in Chongqing for a long time, I naturally like spicy food.
I went back to Lanzhou some time ago and went to Ma 'anjun to eat chili pepper beef noodles. I thought that the spicy food was nothing. Everyone added 1 spoonfuls of chili pepper to the bowl. After eating it, the whole body was irritable, and the big masters only spit out their tongues. It seems that this spicy food is underestimated. Later, I heard from diners that chili pepper has been carefully studied. Generally, it is the limit for diners to exceed five spoonfuls, and the highest record for spicy fans is only ten spoonfuls.
The least known thing about Lamian Noodles in Lanzhou is that Lamian Noodles in Lanzhou has nothing to do with Lanzhou. Lanzhou locals call it "beef noodles". Young people also call it "Niu Da" and "Niu Da Wan", which means "big bowl of beef noodles". In Gansu, except Lanzhou, other areas are basically only called so-and-so beef noodle restaurant, but outside Gansu, they are all called Lanzhou Ramen Restaurant. In other places, it is often called "Lamian Noodles" and "Beef Lamian Noodles". ? Most of them have nothing to do with Lanzhou.
Every time a friend in Chongqing says, Go and have a bowl of Lanzhou Lamian Noodles. I always show a dissatisfied look, and I have to correct it one by one. This is beef noodles!
Everyone in Lanzhou has a feeling of turning a blind eye to beef noodles, and the "China Lanzhou Authentic Beef Lamian Noodles" from other places won't understand it.
It is said that no matter how much achievements a Lanzhou native has made outside, no matter how many years he has been away from home, as long as he sets foot on the land of Lanzhou again, he will always miss the bowl of beef noodles in the early morning. I think that's true.