Small pot rice noodles are a common cooking method for rice noodles in Kunming. The main feature is that rice noodles are boiled in a small pot over charcoal fire, and fresh meat and rice noodles are added. Rice noodles are made by fermentation, pulping, filtration, steaming, pressing and rinsing. In Yunnan Province, there are many ways to eat rice noodles.

As for his origin, it is reflected in the folk songs of Kunming in the 1980s:

"Invisible front, endless wool, endless rice noodles.

The invisible front is a movie imported from North Korea in the 1980s. In the early 1980s, people's cultural life was relatively monotonous, so such "imported blockbusters" were watched "n" times over and over again. Endless wool refers to one of the portraits of life scenes in Kunming in the 1980 s No matter young or old, many female compatriots in Kunming, regardless of spring, summer, autumn and winter, knit sweaters day and night to kill time, or show their ingenuity for relatives, lovers and acquaintances, or accumulate some talk from the neighbors. This folk song shows Yunnan people's love for rice noodles.