The brief introduction of the origin of Sha Cha Noodle is as follows:
Sha Cha Noodle is a famous noodle snack in soup. The beauty of it lies in the preparation of the sacha sauce which is used to make the soup. The main ingredient of sacha sauce consists of more than a dozen ingredients such as dried shrimp, dried fish, green onion, garlic, ginger, etc., which are deep-fried and crispy and then finely ground to make sacha sauce for use.
"Shacha" is the translation of the Malaysian language satay, originating in Southeast Asia. It is made of sesame seeds, onion and garlic, herbs, peanut oil, shrimp and chili peppers and other condiments, because there is a spicy flavor, so called "Sacha Spicy". According to Mr. Yang Jibo, overseas Chinese Chen Youxiang is one of the people who introduced Shacha Chili to Xiamen. Since he was a child in Malaysia to learn to make sand tea hot, ten years of summer and summer learned skills, and study, improve the technical innovation, after returning to Xiamen to open the "Chen Youxiang seasoning society", specializing in the sale of sand tea hot. He put the raw materials from the original dozen, increased to more than 20 kinds of products in addition to the sauce type, but also create a powder type, both to maintain the flavor of the original pick, but also easy to store and carry. Compatriots living abroad are happy to buy his products, which shows that his skills have reached the point of perfection. Shacha noodle production method is simple, the first noodles in boiling water, hot water poured over the hot Shacha spicy soup that is ready. As for the Shacha meat noodles and Shacha beef noodles, the meat used should be cut into thin slices, so that a hot cooked, and then garnished with mung bean sprouts or green vegetables, it becomes a spicy Shacha noodles.
The Legend of Shacha Noodles
In Xiamen at the end of the 18th century, at the foot of Putuo Mountain (now Nanputuo) lived a family that had been fishing for generations. The father died early, the son and the mother depend on each other, the small shoulders early to take up everything. Unfortunately, a huge wind swept away the son who was fishing! Since then, no one has heard from him for ten years. The desperate mother cried her eyes out and lost her taste buds!
The lucky son was rescued by an Indonesian merchant ship, where he worked as a cook, and discovered that Indonesians like to cook meat with a powder called sacha. The meat cooked in this way is full of color and flavor! He thought that if he could go home, he would cook such meat for his mother! 10 years later, the young man finally returned to Xiamen with the ship, and saw his withered and old mother, the son's heart was cut to pieces, and he decided to be filial to his mother!
Despite the son's careful care, his mother remained tasteless. One day, he bought his mother's favorite peanuts. Grinding the peanuts into powder and adding them to the noodles made from bone broth, his mother took a bite and surprisingly said: the flavor is so bland! The son was ecstatic and went to get some salt. When he realized that he was out of salt, in a moment of desperation, he tipped over the sacha powder that he had brought back from Indonesia, and sprinkled some of it on the noodles instead of the salt. Unexpectedly, the mother ate the noodles and said: what is this ah, so delicious! The son came close to the bowl of noodles and smelled it, and it was really fragrant.
The mother's sense of taste was restored. Later on, in order to make a living, the young man brought the boiled sacha?a noodles to the pier and the fishermen exchanged some daily necessities and fish, and gradually more and more boats docked for the bowl of sacha?a noodles which was famous in the countryside! To this day, this bowl was born for the filial piety of Shacha-men. Has become synonymous with Xiamen snacks. More Xiamen people and foreign tourists sought after Xiamen's most distinctive flavor snacks.