The soup is made of big bone, old hen and Yunnan Xuanwei ham after long time boiling. Over the bridge rice noodles by four parts: one is the soup covered with a layer of boiling oil; two is the spices, oil chili, monosodium glutamate, pepper, salt; three is the main ingredient, there are raw pork tenderloin slices, slices of chicken breast, slices of fish, as well as water over the five ripe slices of pork loin, tripe slices, slices of squid in the water; auxiliary materials have come to over the pea tips, leeks, as well as coriander, shredded green onions, grass sprouts, ginger, yucca slices, blanch over the skin of the bean curd; four is the main food , i.e. rice noodles slightly scalded with water. Covered in goose fat, the soup is piping hot, but not smoking hot.
Origin
Legend I
Crossing the bridge rice noodles has a history of more than 100 years. Legend has it that during the Qing Dynasty, there was a small island in the center of the lake outside of Mengzi City in southern Yunnan Province, and a scholar went to the island to study, and the scholar's wise and diligent wife often got his favorite rice noodles and sent them to him as a meal, but when she went out to the island, the rice noodles were no longer hot. Later, when sending chicken soup by chance, Xiu Cai's wife realized that the thick layer of chicken oil on the chicken soup was like a pot lid, which could keep the soup warm, and if she put the spices and rice noodles when eating, it would be more refreshing. So she first fat chicken, bones and other cooked clear soup, covered with a thick layer of chicken oil; rice noodles at home hot, and many ingredients cut thin to the island after boiling oil, after joining the rice noodles, fresh and smooth. This method once spread, people have to follow, because to the island to cross a bridge, but also in honor of the wife, later generations will be called "bridge rice noodles".
Legend two
There is also a saying that: Legend has it that the South Lake in Mengzi City, the old scenic beauty, there are often literary and ink read poetry in this. There is a Yang Xucai, often go to the Lake Pavilion reading, his wife every meal sent to the place. Xiucai study hard, often learning and forgetting to eat, so often eat cold rice and cold vegetables, the body is getting weaker and weaker. His wife was anxious and distressed, thinking of paying the home hen killed, stewed in a casserole, to send him. When she went to collect the dishes again, she saw that the food had not been touched and her husband was still reading a book. She had to take the food back and reheat it, but when she took the casserole, she found that it was still hot, and when she opened the lid, it turned out that the surface of the soup was covered with a layer of chicken grease, and the earthenware was not good at transmitting heat, so the heat was sealed in the soup. Later his wife used this method of heat preservation, another will be some rice noodles, vegetables, sliced meat in hot chicken broth cooked, while hot to her husband to eat. Later, many follow her innovative cooking, cooking out of the rice noodles is really delicious, because Yang Xucai from home to the Lake Pavilion to pass through a small bridge, everyone will be this way of eating called "over the bridge rice noodles". Spicy duck over the bridge rice noodles
Spicy duck over the bridge rice noodles
After generations of Yunnan chefs to improve and innovate, "over the bridge rice noodles" has become a famous snack in southern Yunnan.
Legend Three
When the scholar was studying, his wife in order to avoid his husband to eat too cold, the soup will be poured into the hot oil to keep warm, his husband to use the soup noodle is still very hot, need to use a small bowl of cold food. The rice noodles in the casserole with chopsticks in the bowl, the rice noodles will be two bowls as a bridge, the wife sent the rice noodles across the bridge, so it is known as the Bridge Rice Noodles.
Legend 4
Li Jingchun, a scholar from Jianshui County, Yunnan Province, during the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty, created the dish.
Legend V
Legend has it that there was a scholar who liked to play and did not want to study. He had a beautiful wife and a young son. The couple was very close to each other. But his wife was y worried about the scholar's fondness for play and his reluctance to study. She said to the scholar, "You play all day long and don't want to make progress, don't you want to fight for your wife and son?" Hearing his wife's words, the student was y ashamed, in the South Lake to build a study, living alone, reading, his wife also share the worry with the student, three meals a day are sent to the study Zusheng. Scholarship great progress, but also getting thinner and weaker. Wife to see in the eyes, very distressed, thinking about the complementary. Slaughter chicken soup, cut meat, prepare rice noodles, ready to send the scholar breakfast. The son is young, the play will be sliced meat in the soup, the son's wife angrily reprimanded the son's mischief, quickly fish up the sliced meat, see, has been cooked, taste, flavor, great joy. That is, with cans and baskets, sent to the study. Because of overwork, fainted on the South Lake Bridge, the student rushed to the news, see his wife has woken up, soup and rice noodles are intact, the soup surface for the floating oil cover, without a trace of heat, suspected that the soup has been cooled, with the palm of your hand to cover the soup cans, burning hot hands, feeling strange, asked his wife to make the production of the end of the detailed wife, his wife detailed one by one. A long time, the scholar said, this meal can be called the bridge rice noodles. Scholar in his wife's careful care, took the exam, this is the local people as a good story from now on, the reputation of the rice noodles across the bridge has spread.