The origin of the bridge rice noodles Legend has it that a long time ago, there was a scholar studying hard at the Lake Pavilion on the South Lake in Yunnan Province, and his wife had to cross a bridge every day to bring food to the scholar. One day, the wife felt that her husband was very hard on the stewed chicken put into the pot ready to give her husband to eat, but there was something in the middle of the delay, and then came back to find that the chicken in the pot is still hot, open up, found that there is a thick layer of butter on top of it, and then use the chicken oil hot rice noodles to give her husband to eat, the student ate it and praised it. Because his wife had to cross the bridge over the South Lake every day to deliver food, the scholar named it "Bridge Rice Noodles". The history of the rice noodle has been more than one hundred years. It originated from Mengzi in southern Yunnan. Legend has it that the old South Lake in Mengzi County had a beautiful scenery, and there were often writers and artists reading books and poems here. There is a Yang Xiucai, often go to the Lake Pavilion to study, his wife every meal sent to the place. Xiucai study hard, often learning and forgetting to eat, so often eat cold rice and cold vegetables, the body is getting weaker and weaker. His wife was anxious and distressed, thinking of paying the home hen killed, stewed in a casserole, to send him. When she went to collect the dishes again, she saw that the food had not been touched and her husband was still reading a book. So she had to take the food back to reheat, when she took the casserole, but found that it was still hot, open the lid, the original soup surface covered with a layer of chicken oil, plus clay vessels do not serve heat transfer, the heat is sealed in the soup. Later his wife used this method to keep warm, and some rice, vegetables, meat in hot chicken soup, cooked, while hot to her husband to eat. Later, many are modeled on her innovative cooking, cooking out of the rice indeed delicious, because Yang Xucai from home to the Lake Pavilion to pass through a small bridge, we will eat this way called "bridge rice noodles". After successive generations of Yunnan chefs continue to improve and innovate, "over the bridge rice noodles" reputation, renowned at home and abroad, become a famous snacks in southern Yunnan.