Bridge Rice Noodle is a famous flavorful snack in Yunnan. It is mainly made of soup, sliced meat, rice noodles and other ingredients. Soup with fat chicken, pork bones and other boiled to clear and bright for the best, chicken breast, pork tenderloin, liver, cashew flowers, fresh fish, etc. cut into thin slices, arranged into small dishes, rice noodles to fine white, toughness of the best; at the same time there are pea tips, yellow sprouts leeks, young spinach, and so on. Meals, with a large "sea cucumber bowl" soup, add monosodium glutamate, beans, cooked chicken oil. The soup is rolled and oiled, without a trace of heat. Soup on the table, pigeon eggs into the bowl, and then blanch the meat into the soup, gently stirred, suddenly become snow white, tender. Then put in fresh vegetables, rice noodles, with chili oil, sesame oil, etc., can be eaten.
Rice thread is rice vermicelli, which is a thread-like food made of high-quality rice, fermented, ground, filtered, steamed and pressed. Rice noodles are one of the favorite foods of Yunnan people. In the past, on the first day of the Lunar New Year, every family must eat rice noodles, borrowing long rice noodles, wishing happiness for a long time. On the third of March, Kunming people are invited to go to the West Mountain tour, but also often eat cold rice noodles, the local proverb says; "March 3rd. Play Xishan, eat cold rice noodles."
Rice varieties are very much, eat a variety of ways, can be eaten hot, can also be eaten cold, can meat can be vegetarian, rich and frugal by people. However, foreign tourists are best to go to the Yangshikou "Yunnan over the bridge rice noodle museum" a class of rice noodle museum to taste the most enjoyable authentic bridge rice noodle.
To eat the rice noodles, use a large soup bowl to serve the hot soup. This is made from fat chicken and pig bones, clear and bright, the soup is covered with a layer of yellow chicken oil, does not seem to bubble a trace of heat, but it is hot to keep hot. Diners will first blanch slices of chicken breast, pork, fish, liver, pork loin into the soup bowl, gently stirred, and in a short time the meat will be hot and tender shabu shabu. Next, then clip into the pea folder, leeks, spinach, yucca slices of vegetables. Finally, put in the rice noodles, with sesame oil, pepper, chili oil, cilantro and other withering ingredients. Thus, the bowl full of colorful, the snow-white rice noodles, and red slices of pork liver, pork loin slices, turquoise spinach, pea folder, goose yellow yellow buds leeks, interplay. To eat, the meat slices are tender, the greens are crisp, the rice noodles are soft and smooth, and the soup is rich in flavor and very tasty.
On the origin of the bridge rice noodles, some into the view that it is clip rice noodles into the bowl, as if the rice noodles in the two bowls between a bridge and the name. However, the people believe more in a folk tale of the original cause:
Once upon a time, Mengzi a showman in order to apply for the examination, he shut himself in the South Lake on the island, day and night study. His wife sent him meals every day, because of the distance meals are often cold, the showman will not like to eat. What to do? One day his wife stewed a fat hen, she used earthen pots of chicken soup, with Xiu Cai love to eat rice noodles and spices, with a bamboo basket loaded with send, when she end of the soup cans, the hand was scalded shrink back. It turned out that there was a thick layer of chicken oil floating on the chicken soup, keeping the temperature. So she put the condiments into the soup and swished them around before adding the rice noodles. Xiu Cai ate it hot and the flavor felt extraordinarily fresh. He praised Yang because his wife had to pass through a bridge to deliver the rice. Xiu Cai then smiled at his wife said: "you do today's beautiful meal called the bridge rice noodles it." From then on, the bridge rice noodles will be spread in the folk