I remember the first time I ate "bridge rice noodles" is very accidental. It was a Sunday, shopping with mom unknowingly over lunch time. Happen to pass through the rich road, see a "Yunnan bridge rice noodle" store just happened to be in the new opening, push open the door of the store, the smell of fragrant chicken soup flavor will come to the nose, although it is not a normal meal time, but clean and spacious store hall or a lot of guests in the taste of delicious. When the waiter put the steaming bowl of thick soup with golden chicken oil and various dishes and hot rice noodles on the table, my appetite was immediately opened. I couldn't wait to follow the waiter's instructions, first pouring sliced meat, sliced ham, quail eggs, and cooked chicken pieces into the soup, then pouring vegetables, scallions, cilantro, and other condiments into the soup, and finally putting the snow-white rice noodles into the soup and stirring them gently with chopsticks. At this time, the rich and pungent aroma of the chicken soup constantly stimulate my palate, looking at the thick soup floating in the thin as a cicada wings of white meat and red ham slices, the whole white skin of the chicken thighs, green green onion, vegetable seedlings, and yellow and white quail eggs, a color, aroma and taste of delicious snacks in their own personal participation in front of me has been perfectly presented. I gently tasted a mouthful, wow, a time, the tenderness of the meat and the fragrance of the rice noodles and the freshness of the chicken broth at once overflowed into my mouth, how can there be such a delicious 'thing' in the world ah? I couldn't believe it! I kept eating and drinking one bite after another, and in the end, if it wasn't for the fact that my stomach couldn't hold out any longer, I really wanted to drink that bowl of chicken soup all the way to the bottom.
After tasting the "Bridge Rice Noodle", I asked my mom: "Who invented such a delicious thing? Why is it called this name?" Mom said with a smile: "There is a beautiful and touching legend here! It is said that during the Qing Dynasty, Yunnan Mengzi County outside a small island in the center of the lake, there is a scholar for quiet on the island to read poetry, and his three meals a day to rely on his wife to send across the bridge. But it was a long way to go, and every time the food was sent over, it got cold. The wife was anxious and apologized for this. One day, the wife made her husband's favorite chicken soup and rice noodles, in order to make it easier to carry, the chicken soup and cooked rice noodles are separate, and on the way there, the wife fainted by the bridge because she was overworked. When Xiu Cai searched for and woke up his wife, they were surprised to find that the tile pot containing the chicken soup was still hot. It turned out to be a thick layer of oil on the chicken soup to prevent the loss of heat. From then on, his wife made the soup every day according to the law, and the scholar ate hot meals and studied more attentively, and finally got the top grade in the exam. Therefore, later generations called the rice noodles made in this way 'Bridge Rice Noodles', and thus derived from the Xiu Cai Rice Noodles, Scholar Rice Noodles, Beef Rice Noodles and many other varieties. Because of its hot soup taste fresh, tender meat, rice flour and other characteristics, so it has become a unique traditional flavor of Yunnan region cuisine.
Listening to my mom's introduction, I am more on the "bridge rice noodles" this kind of Yunnan flavor food! Because it is not only delicious, but also wrote the miracle of love!
My mom introduced me to the "Bridge Rice Noodle".