Mixed sauce noodles and fried noodles are not the same, fried noodles is the cucumber, carrots and other vegetables shredded into the boiled noodles, and then the diced meat into the pot stir-fried meat sauce made of pasta drizzled in the pasta mix to eat, no soup. Miscellaneous sauce noodles is the Sichuan term for noodles with soup, which is made by adding red oil and stir-fried meat foam to the already made noodles with soup, with soup.

Prevalent in the north of China and also found in other regions, fried noodles are made by mixing shredded cucumber and carrots with meat sauce made by popping and stirring. The most common meat sauce for fried noodles is pork sauce, and old Beijingers must grate the watery noodle soup clean. Guangdong, Shanghai, South Korea have fried noodles, Korean fried noodles are brought to the past by the early years of Shandong Chinese.

Mixed sauce noodles generally refers to a kind of noodles in Sichuan, because "mixed" and "fried" resonance, in fact, there is no fried noodles in Sichuan, and then from the north to become mixed sauce noodles. Its practice is slightly different from the fried noodles, Sichuan mixed sauce noodles like to add red oil to the soup noodles, and then in the top of the fried meat sauce, mostly meat-based.

Fried noodles are a traditional specialty of northern China and are known as one of China's top ten noodles, with a longer history than mixed sauce noodles. There is a similarity between fried noodles and miso noodles, in that they are both made with meat stir-fried into a sauce, which is mixed with the noodles and eaten together.