Wuhan's breakfast is not only convenient and time-saving, but also rich in both northern and southern flavors. There are doughnuts, noodle nests, roasted plums, soup dumplings, bean skins, hot noodles, beef noodles, noodles with sauce, beans, dumplings, dumplings, dry and thin, eaten while hot and tasty. Hot noodles is one of Wuhan's traditional snacks, its thick and crisp, unique flavor, is the Wuhan people early in the morning the preferred food, it and fried noodles nest, hairy rice poop, etc. Wuhan formed a series of snacks known throughout the country, after decades and not decline. 20 years ago is a bowl of "two two grain stamps for ten cents," and now to spend on the dollar, it can be comfortably filled. The food has been popular in Wuhan for decades. Now all the snack stalls in the three towns of Wuhan are mainly selling hot noodles, Hankou's "Cailinji" is a hundred years old hot noodles, now Cailinji Hot Noodles Company in the three towns of Wuhan also opened more than 300 chain stores, the business is not red-hot. Wuhan's hot noodles and Shanxi's knife-shaved noodles, two Canton's Yifu noodles, Sichuan's Dan Dan noodles, northern fried noodles and known as China's five famous noodles.
When it comes to Wuhan hot noodles, most people in Wuhan know Jianghan Road, "Cai Linji" hot noodles store, which is the most authentic Wuhan hot noodles. In fact, about the origin of the hot dry noodles, the real invention of the patentee is cooked food vendor Li Bao. Li Bao's name is not rumored, only because of a sarcoma on the neck and named, the early 1930s living in Qiaokou Guandi Temple shantytown, long years picking a stretcher shaking a rattle in the Hanzheng Street, Changdi Street, along the road hawking cold noodles and noodle soup, the days are tight. One year, the evening of three volts, he was exhausted to pick the noodles did not sell out of home, for fear that the leftover noodles become rancid after the night, it is all boiled to dry on the board, who knew that accidentally knocked over the kettle, the fragrant sesame oil splashed all over the noodles. Li Bao and heartache and remorse, had to go along with the cooked noodles and splashed out of the oil mixing cool, counting on the next day to sell a few money to save a few money.
Early the next morning, Li Bao rushed to pick up these noodles on the street. Put it first in the boiling water in the hot, dry fish up with condiments for sale, customers see this noodle practice is different from the usual soup noodles, both dry and flavor, you a bowl of my bowl have bought to "taste the new", eat a lot of flavor. Someone asked about the name of this noodle, there is a bitter Li Bao inspired, casually replied: "This is my family according to your tastes specifically made both hot and no soup 'hot dry noodles' sand! "Thus, the hot dry noodles began to spread in the Hanzheng Street area, by more and more customers preferred. Li Bao see hot dry noodles sales than cold noodles soup noodles much more playful, began to turn to the exclusive business, and later with the ambrosia wine or green beans and rice, business is getting more and more prosperous. Li Bao's reputation thus went out of Hanzheng Street, expanding to Hankou, Jianghan District, and then spread throughout the three towns of Wuhan. The hot dry noodles were also copied by many hawkers, and gradually became the favorite breakfast of Wuhan people.
At the end of the thirties, Manchun intersection finally built a hot dry noodle hall listed as "Cailinji", Cailinji continue to inherit, improve the hot dry noodles Li Bao production process, according to customer taste in the golden oily, delicate and pliable hot dry noodles, add sesame sauce, pepper, pickles, shrimp and other condiments, mixed with small milled sesame oil or chili oil, etc., making hot dry noodles, the hot dry noodle, the hot dry noodles, the hot dry noodles, the hot dry noodles, the hot dry noodles, the hot dry noodles, the hot dry noodles, the hot dry noodles and the hot dry noodles. Mixed with small-ground sesame oil or chili oil, etc., the hot dry noodles are full of color and flavor, suitable for young and old, and have become a good breakfast for the people of the three towns, with a good reputation at home and abroad. As for the connection between Li Bao and Cai Lin Ji, there is no historical evidence. But Li Bao first hot dry noodles and hot dry noodles in the Hanzheng Street area of the prevalence, indeed, in the Cai Linji fame before, this should be an indisputable fact.
Hot noodles have gradually become part of Wuhan's culture. As long as you study the culture of Wuhan, it is almost impossible to get rid of the hot dry noodles. Wuhan writer Chi Li in the "Old Wuhan" book on the hot dry noodles made a detailed introduction, another Wuhan writer Fang Fang also on the hot dry noodles much ink. In Wuhan's busiest commercial pedestrian street, there is a bronze statue of an old man, with a towel on his shoulder, holding a bamboo strainer, a unique tool for cooking hot noodles, and concentrating on cooking the noodles. This is the most popular of all the statues on the pedestrian street, and countless Wuhan citizens gather around it every day to take pictures. Then one day, Wuhaners woke up early in the morning and realized that the bamboo strainer in the statue's hand had disappeared. Wuhan people were anxious, they looked around, the media also joined in. Later, still in an early morning, Wuhan people woke up and found that the bamboo strainer was magically back again. It seems that the thief also can not bear to Wuhan people do not have hot noodles to eat ah!