Chongqing small noodles are divided into two types: soup noodles and dry noodles. Chongqing noodle also includes Chongqing small noodles and noodles with bashfulness, such as beef, fat intestines, pea mixed sauce noodles, Rongchang pavement noodles and so on.

Spices are the soul of Chongqing noodles, and a bowl of noodles relies on seasonings to enhance its flavor. The seasonings are mixed first, and then put into the boiled noodles. The spicy flavor is harmonized without irritation, the noodles are strong and smooth, and the soup is fragrant and full of flavor.

Chongqing noodles is a traditional noodle dish generally accepted by the people of Chongqing as southerners, because of its unique taste, known for its spiciness, and in recent years nationally known. in January 2016 the local standard "Chongqing Noodle Cooking Technical Guidelines" has been approved and started to implement.

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Chongqing Xiaomian may be inexpensive, but the ingredients are well thought out. Unlike traditional noodles in the north, the body of the noodles must be made of fresh alkaline noodles (wet noodles) made from local alkaline water in order to create a chewy texture.

Additionally, small noodles are made with a rich variety of seasonings, including: lard, oil chili, soy sauce, vinegar, chopped green onion, ginger and garlic water, sesame seeds, pepper powder, monosodium glutamate (MSG) and more than 10 kinds of seasonings, and different stores also add peas and miscellaneous sauces according to their own recipes. XiaoMian focuses on flavor rather than quantity, so Chongqing folk have "wide soup and narrow noodles". There are similar small noodles in the western generation of Ezhou, but the seasonings are slightly different.

Chongqing small noodles seasoning (Chongqing people called "condiments") are very cheap, a good bowl of small noodles, seasoning is generally soy sauce, monosodium glutamate (MSG), oil chili pepper (hot sauce, Chongqing people called "oil pepper"), ginger and garlic water, mustard greens, lard (). Sesame oil or canola oil can be used instead), chopped green onion, sesame paste, pepper, sprouts, fried peanuts, vinegar and so on.

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