Chongqing Xiaomian, belonging to Sichuan noodle cuisine, is one of the four specialties of Chongqing.

Chongqing Xiaomian originated in the main city of Chongqing, a municipality directly under the central government of Chongqing, and is one of the staple foods of Chongqing, a Han Chinese specialty snack originated in old Chongqing. Xiaomian belongs to the soup noodle type, spicy flavor type. The narrow sense of small noodles refers to spicy vegetarian noodles, especially for breakfast is more common, Chongqing small noodles is the simplest type of Chongqing noodles, the main ingredient is fresh wheat flour noodles, Chongqing people called water surface, water leaves.

Chongqing small noodles is as a southerner of Chongqing people generally accepted traditional noodles, because of its unique taste, known for its spicy, in recent years the country well-known, narrowly defined, small noodles refers to onion, garlic, soy sauce, vinegar and chili pepper seasoned spicy veggie noodles, and in the discourse system of the old Chongqing, even if the addition of beef miscellaneous sauce, ribs and other luxury toppings of the noodles are also known as small noodles, such as: beef, fat intestines, peas miscellaneous sauce noodles, etc., but if you go to a small noodle shop and don't say anything else it's by default red oil veggie noodles.

Development history

Small noodles are the only commonly accepted noodle dish in Chongqing as a southerner, Chongqing people's love for Chongqing small noodles is no less than the hot pot, the proximity is even more than ever. Chongqing people love small noodles rather than addiction, rather than a kind of dependence, get up early in the morning every day, the street side of the noodle stalls exceptionally red-hot, although some stores are not very well decorated, and even is the roadside stalls, but the beautiful people at this time also never care about their own image of the lady, eating that incense.

There are gentlemen in suits, put down the briefcase, hoo-hoo-hoo, three five to eat a bowl of noodles, noodles stalls, there are white-collar workers, there is a stick force, there are students, all kinds of people, regardless of life, regardless of status, all kinds of people, etc. is a bowl of Chongqing noodles, out of the home of the Chongqing people, if you can't eat a hot pot first, but must be the first "under"! "Bowl of small noodles to solve the craving.