Most people who haven't been to Shaanxi know that one of the eight strange things about Shaanxi is that the noodles look like a pants belt. We certainly want to taste the flavor of the authentic Shaanxi belt noodles, in fact, Shaanxi people generally do not call him belt noodles, but called the torn noodles, torn noodles have a variety of practices, such as: biangbaing noodles, bolognese meat pulling the noodles, oil splash torn noodles, Yangling dipping noodles, and so on, their noodles are as wide as the belt, and can be called the belt noodles. It is only in recent years that many merchants have been catering to foreign visitors to Xi'an that people are slowly adding pants belt noodles to their menus.
The wheat is abundant in Guanzhong, and Shaanxi people grind it into flour, add lightly salted water and noodles, roll the noodles into two-two strips, brush with oil to seal them, and then pull them out by hand into long, wide noodles, which is the way to make the pants belt noodles. The old Shaanxi people love to eat noodles, the fried all kinds of bashfulness and oil splash hot pepper, balsamic vinegar added to the surface, and then squatting on the stone in front of the gate, eat up that is called delicious.
Legend has it that a collection of wistful and cynical poor and starving in one of the Xiu Cai came to Xianyang, he passed by a noodle shop, heard inside the "biang - biang -" sound endlessly. "The sound of endless, a moment of hunger, can not help but pace in. Just see the white case is full of and good long strips of noodle blocks, the master carried a piece of children, pulling the two ends, a moment to wrestle into a belt as wide as thrown into the pot, a moment to wrestle a number of pieces, a moment from the pot out of a large sea bowl, the bottom of the bowl beforehand with the ingredients and some bean sprouts and greens, naturally, to be doused with a large spoonful of oil splash spice, steaming end up. Xiu Cai look up, shouted: "Good ah! Shopkeeper to a bowl!" "This customer a bowl?" The shopkeeper let out a long yell, in a moment a bowl of noodles in front of, in a moment the bowl is clean, straight to eat the showman sweating profusely. "Shopkeeper, check out!" Xiu Cai drank. A touch of the pocket, bad, a moment of forgetfulness, actually forgot that the bag has long been empty as clean, suddenly embarrassed, just now the hot sweat instantly cold brush on the face. On the side, the shopkeeper squinted his eyes and shrugged his shoulders, with a bad smile on his face. "Xiao Er?" Xiu Cai snapped, just as the words left his mouth, he was blocked by the store assistant: "Customer, this store is a small business, no credit." Seeing the store assistant's non-committal appearance, Xiu Cai again touched his body, left, right, up, down, as if sooner or later he could feel out a few pennies. The shopkeeper thought to himself, "You poor scholar, see what you touch." Oh my God, isn't this degrading? Xiu Cai touched one side and thought of a way to get out. He struck up a conversation with the store assistant: "What's the name of your noodles?" "What is the name of biang," said the store assistant, following Xiu Cai's accent: "Biangbiang noodles." Xiu Cai asked, "Biangbiang noodles, how do you write the word biangbiang?" This noodle store is known far and near the old, its noodles do special, face and panel wrestling impact, "biangbiang" also, so called "biangbiang noodles". "biangbiang" two words how to write, the shopkeeper to do noodles, guests eat noodles, who did not think about it. See the store two can not answer, the showman suddenly had an idea, he said: "two, you and the boss discussed, I have no money today, can write 'biangbiang' two words, for this bowl of noodles to eat?" The store assistant came back in a moment and said, "Success." The shopkeeper thought to himself, "There has never been the word 'biangbiang' in ancient times, let's see how you poor scholar can renege on the bill." "biang, biang, biang, biang?" muttered the Xiucai in his heart and on his lips.
Showcases read books, but also the most recognized books, throughout the ages there is no such "biang, biang" two words. "There is no book, can not be created?" The emperor can create the word for the name, how dare the Xiu Cai with the same? Xiucai full of heartache, a melancholy; hard work, work not, name is not, in full view of the public, fell into this field of lai account, heaven is unfair ah! He was anxious, the heart scolded the emperor: "What 'sun and moon in the sky'? The people's plight, woe to the world; the palace tilting, wolves in the way; corrupt officials, rampant countryside; I studied hard, because no money, no one, can not pass the joints, not to get the title? The sun and the moon do not shine! Stop, your emperor can make words, why can't I Xiu Cai?" Xiu Cai shouted, "Brush and ink are waiting!" Seeing his pen move, he wrote one greatly! He wrote and sang, "One point flies up to the sky, the Yellow River bends on both sides; eight big open mouths, the word goes inside, a twist on the left, a twist on the right; a long one in the west, a long one in the east, a horse king in the middle; the bottom of the heart character, the side of the moon character, leaving a hook to hang the sugar; pushing the cart to go to Xianyang." A word, write all the geography of the mountains and rivers, the world is cool. Xiu Cai wrote and threw his pen, and the audience applauded. From then on, "biangbiang noodles" became famous in Guanzhong.
Guanzhong rumor: curtain hanging a piece of mat, house eating biangbiang son, visible Guanzhong symbol of abundance, love to eat do not love to wear, biangbiang noodles put oil splash spices most fragrant, from ancient to modern, noodle shop to the family dinner table are put four snack bowls (salt, spicy, vinegar, sauce).
Spicy, also known as Qin pepper, dialect words: cannon, two cannons, line of spicy; big spicy, dog qiu spicy, pointed spicy.
Spicy peppers eat a variety of ways: eat raw the whole spices, cold pointed spices, fried tiger skin spices, fried green spices; chili sauce, chili oil, soaked spices; dry seasoning of chili noodles, vinegar, sauce, syrup combined with chili peppers, the best oil splash spices.
"Noodles like a belt", "chili is the main dish" is one of the ten strange Guanzhong, three words will be the Shaanxi Guanzhong people love to eat noodles customary diet to show out, the old Shaanxin people end of a big bowl of biangbiang noodles, Shaanxi Guanzhong there is an old saying: "oil splattered chili noodles, vinegar, sauce, paste water with chili. The old saying: "oil splash spices biangbiang noodles" slander love eating noodles people drooling. The oldest kind is rolled thick and cut wide like a pants belt, refreshing and hunger-enduring too. The most important thing to remember is that you should be able to eat the noodles in a hot oil bath with salt, and then you can put the noodles in a bun.
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