Handmade noodles with minced meat are very famous. They are beautifully cut, the soup is delicious, the ingredients are fresh, the color and flavor are all available, and the locals are never tired of eating them. Every step of it is very particular. Noodles can be rolled as thin as paper and cut as thin as rope. The minced meat soup can be spicy and sour, and the ingredients are all local specialties in Qingyang, which will be cooked by every household, especially during the Chinese New Year holiday or when there are guests at home.

Minced meat noodles are one of the more common pasta dishes in Qingyang. They are usually eaten at home, and weddings and funerals are essential. Qingyang people call the minced meat noodles used to entertain guests at weddings and funerals "drinking soup". After the "soup", a wedding or funeral ceremony will be held and a banquet will be held to entertain guests and friends. Its main component is semen ziziphi sativi, hence the name "semen ziziphi noodles".

Saozi is usually diced with pork or mutton, and then added with salt, ginger powder, spices, Chili noodles and pepper. It can be made in advance, stored in a jar and taken as needed. Fresh pork and mutton can also be used for cooking and eating. To make minced meat soup, stir-fry chopped green onion with clear oil, then add minced meat, cooked lard and Chili noodles, then add diced red and white radish, diced tofu, yellow flowers and fungus, add water to cook, and then add egg diamond-shaped pancakes and spinach. The soup boiled with these ingredients is fresh in color, rich in oil, strong in taste and attractive in fragrance. Minced meat noodles are mostly slender noodles made of wheat flour. Not only the soup is good, but also the noodles are very particular. Noodles should be mixed, kneaded, rolled, cut and boiled. If one of the "six good" is not in place, the minced meat noodles will lose their flavor. When eating, put minced meat soup on the tip, then take out the noodles with clear water, and then scoop the noodles into a bowl filled with minced meat soup with chopsticks. You can eat two or three bowls of noodles in a bowl of soup, or you can eat a bowl of noodles in a bowl of soup.