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Why do Chongqing people say "Er Liang" when they eat Chongqing noodles? What's "tricky" behind it?

Although I'm not a standard Chongqing native, I'm close to it. My answer should be able to answer this question.

First of all, I want to talk about the following ingredients. As a person who grew up in the countryside, I have a unique feeling about noodles. At least when I was young, noodles were relatively valuable food. I don't know if readers and friends had similar experiences. When I was young, there were some noodle processing workshops where ordinary people could buy noodles directly or exchange wheat for noodles.

In addition to eating noodles at home, they are also used as gifts. Relatives and friends also give them two handfuls of dried noodles on holidays. For those relatives and friends who suddenly visit, they will cook a bowl of egg dried noodles for their guests when they don't arrive at the meal. This is really something I have experienced personally. It can be seen that in the past, the status of noodles in Chongqing, Sichuan and other places was still a little different from that in the northern region. After all, our staple food was rice.

It is true that dried noodles are not the same kind of noodles sold in general noodle restaurants. Noodles in noodle restaurants are generally called water surface, which is the kind that people see chefs catch up and cook in the pot, but it can reflect the attitude of ordinary people towards noodles at that time. When I was a child, when I went to the market, people who went to the market would eat a bowl of noodles, gouache or wonton soup, usually 2 or 3 ounces.

I don't know what other people think of Chongqing people and Sichuan people eating a bowl of noodles of 2-3 taels, but for myself, such a bowl of noodles is basically equivalent to a meal, and so are my relatives and friends. Now, in my hometown, everyone goes to the noodle restaurant to eat noodles as breakfast, or when they are hungry, or people who go to the market pad their stomachs, not as a meal. In other words, I don't think we regard noodles as the staple food for three meals a day, and now it is enough for most office workers, students and so on to eat 2 or 3 taels of noodles.

I have been to the north, and what impressed me the most about pasta is that it is full of portions. Basically, all the local noodles I have eaten are large pots, such as belt noodles, Huimian Noodles, etc. I can't walk with a small bowl, but I see that most local people eat large portions. This difference in food intake is really not a little bit.

Therefore, personally, I think it is not appropriate to use the word "tricky" to ask this question, but it should be said that there is something wrong with it. In fact, it's nothing, because most of us eat such a bowl of noodles. If we feel that the weight is insufficient, we can also ask for 4 Liang or more, which is just that the diet in different regions is different.