Braised noodles, as the most famous snack in Henan, have a significant position in the hearts of Henan people. You can always hear the familiar conversation on the streets of Zhengzhou: "What are you going to eat for lunch today, let's go and drink chow mein!
Henan chow mein is divided into: lamb chow mein, beef chow mein, three fresh chow mein, five fresh chow mein, etc., to soup fresh gluten as the characteristics of high-quality high-strength flour, add the right amount of salt and alkali, with warm water and open, and repeatedly kneaded, and then rolled into a ten-centimeter-wide, twenty-centimeter-long sheet, smeared with oil, yards of good standby. The soup should be boiled for more than five hours with top quality beef and mutton bones, and the oil in the bones should be boiled out. Then do a good job of noodle flakes flung into a uniform thickness of the long strip, torn into the soup, and then add shredded kelp, shredded rice noodles, vermicelli, etc., cook for seven or eight minutes, after the bowl, add cooked beef and lamb, quail eggs, and then sprinkled with cilantro can be served, eaten with sugar and garlic.
Braised noodles have a long history, the earliest can be traced back to the Tang Dynasty, legend has it that before Li Shimin ascended to the throne, the winter fell on the way to escape from a disease, fortunate to have a peasant family to stay. Farmers slaughtered domesticated elk stew, and forced to chase the grass will live good ground pulling down the pot. Li Shimin ate, cold disease healed. After the throne, Li Shimin sent people looking for, order the royal chef to learn the art, the Tang Palace Imperial meals on more than one "unicorn noodles". Later, because of the rarity of the elk on the goat instead, gradually evolved into braised noodles.
In Zhengzhou, the most famous, the best flavor to belong to the Xiaogi chow mein, Xiaogi chow mein was founded by the original Zhengzhou state-run Changchun Hotel Yifu noodles master Xiaohonghe, there are currently more than 2,000 stores across the country! After he retired, he led his two sons to upgrade the traditional beef and mutton chow mein by adding sea cucumber and squid, which are flavorful and highly nutritious, to the mutton chow mein, which he called "three-fresh chow mein".
Heji Chow Mein, run by four people*** together, is a halal brand that takes the traditional Chow Mein of mutton chow mein to the extreme! Heji braised noodles width of 1 * 9.5 centimeters, thickness, such as lily petals, smooth outside and tough inside, chewing tension, divided into a section to eat. Eat to feet long, and then drink the soup. 94 years in May won the "national halal brand name flavor food" title, 97 years in December and picked up the "Chinese famous snacks" laurels, so that its reputation, become the representative of Zhengzhou chow mein!
With its two comparable, more 76 people old chow mein, four factory chow mein, yufengyuan chow mein, huifengyuan chow mein, fangcheng chow mein, luoyang chow mein, yuzhi chow mein, mhe chow mein, etc., masters around the world after many years of research, so that each of their own special characteristics, is the people of different cities and counties in henan different memories!
Henan chow mein, all year round never get tired of eating! In the hot summer, in the cool air-conditioned house to eat a bowl of soup fresh and flavorful chow mein, with a bottle of ice-cold beer, the feeling is really strong! In the snowy winter, there should be nothing happier than eating a bowl of steaming hot chow mein!