"Picking fish", also known as "slipping the tip" and "picking the tip", is a traditional pasta that originated in Yuncheng and Jinzhong, Shanxi, and is popular in Shanxi, Mongolia, Shaanxi and Hebei.

When picking the tip of the turntable, pay attention to put the batter into the plate, leave a hole in the middle and dip it in water around it, so that the plate can be picked up, then put the batter into the hole and repeat. Nowadays, pulling fish is also a unique performance of Shanxi pasta. "Fish chasing waves, carp yue longmen" and other pasta flying in the air express people's good wishes for a better future.

Pay attention to the word "pick" when picking and poking stocks. The method is to flatten the dough on a special shovel or wooden shovel, and use iron chopsticks (a round iron chopsticks as thick as ordinary incense sticks) to pick up the noodles one by one and poke them into the pot to cook.

Shanxi traditional cuisine

1, Daoxiao Noodles, Shanxi: Daoxiao Noodles, Shanxi is famous for its unique flavor at home and abroad. Daoxiao Noodles is named after all his knives. The leaves cut with a knife are thick in the middle and thin in the edge. Sharp edges, shaped like willow leaves; The entrance is soft and non-sticky, and the more you chew, the more fragrant it is, which is deeply loved by pasta lovers.

2. Old woman: Shanxi specialty, popular in Jinzhong area, belongs to coarse grain food. There are many kinds, such as potatoes, beans, Chinese cabbage and Sophora japonica. Most steamed bread or pasta is stirred, steamed in a pot, or fried in oil, or mixed with tomato hot sauce.

3. Lehe: Also known as He Lou Hehe, it softens pea noodles, oat noodles, buckwheat noodles or other miscellaneous bean noodles, and uses Lehe bed (a wooden or iron tool with many round eyes) to make the noodles come out through circular intraocular pressure to form small round strips. It is thicker than ordinary noodles, but harder and softer than noodles, and it is similar to noodles. It is very common in northern China, and Shaanxi Lehe is famous all over the country.