Crossing Bridge Rice Noodle is a Han Chinese snack unique to the south Yunnan region, belonging to the Yunnan cuisine.

Crossing Bridge Rice Noodle originated in Mengzi area. The soup is made of big bones, old hen, and Yunnan Xuanwei ham boiled for a long time. Over the bridge rice noodles consists of four parts: soup covered with a layer of boiling oil; condiments, oil chili, monosodium glutamate, pepper, salt; main ingredients, there are slices of raw pork tenderloin, slices of chicken breast, slices of otter, as well as water over the five ripe slices of pork loin, slices of tripe, slices of squid in the water; auxiliary ingredients come over the pea tips, chives, as well as coriander, shredded green onions, grass sprouts shredded ginger, yucca slices, blanch the skin of the bean curd; staple food, that is, slightly scalded with water Rice Noodles. Covered in goose fat, the broth is piping hot, but not smoking hot.

The Legend of Bridge Rice Noodles

Legend has it that there is a showman in this Mengzi County, every day in the South Lake outside the city on the island of the lake with hard work, and his virtuous and hard-working wife, every day will be a good meal sent to the island to her husband to eat. However, because of the delay in the journey, the way to cross a small bridge, the food sent to the husband's mouth is often already cold, the delicious discount. One day, the wife stewed a chicken for her husband, just put the hot chicken soup into a bowl, because of days of labor, suddenly feel sleepy around the body and leaned on the side of the stove to fall asleep.

I don't know how long she slept, but when she woke up and put her hand on the soup, she was so burned by the hot soup bowl that she retracted her hand. This made her finally discover the mystery that the chicken fat floating on the surface could keep the heat in. So, his wife with a hot soup covered with chicken oil, with thin slices of fresh meat, fish, rice noodles, ingredients, etc., walked across the bridge to the island, the scholar ate the hot rice noodles suddenly feel the taste is beautiful, the spirit of a hundred times. Later, the scholar really won the lottery, in order to thank his wife's hospitality, the scholar jokingly ate his wife sent the chicken soup rice noodle before the exam, and this by his wife every day across the bridge to the rice noodle, on the "bridge rice noodle" of the name of the world.