Tutu mochi is a kind of pasta.

Introduction to pasta:

Pasta refers to food mainly made of flour. Different types of pasta are found all over the world. Western food includes bread, various scones, etc. China's pasta snacks have a long history, with different flavors and many varieties, mainly including noodles, steamed buns, flower rolls, fried dough sticks, mashi, sesame seed cakes, dumplings, steamed buns, cold skins, wontons, twists, etc.

Historical evolution:

The history of ancient Chinese people eating wheat can be traced back to the Neolithic Age. At first, it was eaten whole. Due to the invention of the stone mill, people began to eat flour, and it appeared in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. Noodle cakes. During the Eastern Han Dynasty, stone mills became popular and people began to widely eat flour.

Since then, with the improvement of cooking utensils and stoves, the raw materials, preparation methods and varieties of Chinese snacks have become increasingly rich, and many popular snacks have appeared, such as dumplings, noodles, ramen, pancakes, siu mai, and spring rolls. , Lantern Festival, fried dough sticks and so on. Depending on their products and folk customs, various regions have evolved many snacks with strong local characteristics.

Shaanxi Qishan noodles have always been famous at home and abroad. It is a branch of Shanxi noodles. During the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty, the Ma Jinding brothers from Jishan County, Shanxi Province traveled thousands of miles to Qishan to do noodle business. The brand name was "Shuntiancheng". To this day, Qishan noodles still use this time-honored name. The royal tribute in the past is now famous overseas.

Regional types:

If you don’t try pasta when traveling to Shanxi, you haven’t visited Shanxi. "Shanxi's pasta cultural tradition is unique and draws on the strengths of others. Therefore, there has long been a saying at home and abroad that "the world's pasta is in China, and Chinese pasta is in Shanxi." It reaches Niangziguan in the east, the Yellow River in the west, Fenglingdu in the south, and Yanmenguan in the north. Most housewives can use pasta as raw material to process several types of pasta.

Many Shanxi men sometimes show off their “special skills” in making pasta in front of guests. They sincerely welcome friends from home and abroad to visit Shanxi. Try Shanxi’s noodles and enjoy your meal.

Shanxi people’s love for noodles is inseparable from Shanxi’s history, geography, politics, culture and planting habits. Historically speaking, Shanxi’s Yao and Shun. , and Yu both built their capitals and established businesses here. Furthermore, from the perspective of Pingyao, a famous historical and cultural city, there are also many commercial activities in Shanxi, which also laid the foundation for the formation and development of Shanxi pasta.

In addition, Shanxi has more mountains and less water, and the temperature difference between the north and the south is large, so it has formed a planting habit of more miscellaneous grains, which also laid a material foundation for the formation of Shanxi pasta.