Because southerners usually don't have a big appetite and can't eat much. Additionally, southerners also find the flavor of Northeastern cold noodles to be a bit too heavy for the lighter standards of southerners. The grilled cold noodles will have a little sauce or chili added. Southerners are not used to it. If they were allowed to comment on Northeast Fried Noodles in one sentence, it would be:a little too heavy. Most Southerners still don't like this northern flavor.
In general, people in most southern cities sell baked cold noodles to northerners. Many northerners have developed or settled in the south, and not a few eat grilled cold noodles anymore. This is the main reason for the difference in diet between the north and the south, which makes the northeasterners feel helpless. As a matter of fact, Northeasterners have the same expression when they eat intestinal noodles in Guangdong. They feel that the portion size of Guangdong's intestinal noodles is too small. They have to eat three or four slices to get a full meal, and at 5 yuan a piece three or four would cost 20 yuan, but they can get a full meal by paying 10 yuan for grilled cold noodles.
Many northerners have no resistance to cold noodles. When they pass by, they can't help but buy one. In fact, baked cold noodles are a bit like the southern hand pie, but with a different crust. In the North, it's made of a special icy crust and then fried in oil on an iron plate. An egg is then cracked over the cold noodles and fried until both sides are golden brown. You can then brush the sauce and add toppings such as scallions, sausage, bean sprouts, and enoki mushrooms, usually selectively according to the customer's taste. Finally, you just roll up the cold pastry, cut it into small pieces and put it into a small bowl. This is the most classic northern street food cold noodles. In fact, just looking at the photo of baked cold noodles is very flavorful.
Cold noodles like this can be bought for less than ten dollars, which is very affordable, and people with small appetites are very happy with this kind. Nowadays, Chinese food is not only in the country regardless of region, many are even sold to foreign countries, such as Chinese pancake fruit in New York is very hot.