Hele (pronounced hé le), also known as Helou and Hele, is called huó luǒ in Shaanxi. It is made by mixing pea noodles, naked oats noodles, buckwheat noodles or other miscellaneous bean noodles, and using a Hele bed (a wooden or iron tool with many round eyes) to pass the noodles through the round intraocular pressure.

Hele is a traditional folk pasta snack in China, as one of the most common ways to eat pasta in northern China. Bean noodles sometimes need to be added with flour paste to adjust the hardness and taste of noodles, which is suitable for noodles that are not as sticky as wheat flour and cannot be made into noodles by ordinary methods. Wuji Hele is the most famous and common in the north, especially in Shaanxi, Shanxi and Shijiazhuang, Hebei, and it is also common at the junction of southeast Zhao County in Shijiazhuang and Ningjin County in Xingtai.

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The story of Hele:

According to legend, Bao Qingtian, a teenager in Song Dynasty, passed through Wuji County. As soon as he arrived at the west gate of the county seat, he smelled the fragrance of buckwheat, and he hurried into a hele, calling the bartender to "serve the three bowls of buckwheat". The bartender deliberately increased the weight, filled three bowls, and brought them to Bao Zheng: "You can finish these three bowls, and my nose will make you hit three wooden sticks."

Bao Zheng said, "If I can't finish it, I'll let you fill my nose with three bowls of sweet vinegar." Who knows that this hungry and hungry black man ate three bowls of Hele and three bowls of sweet vinegar. Bao Zheng shouted, "Shop assistant, get a wooden stick quickly." At this time, the bartender was scared and ran away. This story has been circulated, and the infinite people always like to add more vinegar when they eat buckwheat, which is called "it's enough to eat with sour taste".

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