Banlan root instant noodles is a dark dish posted on Weibo in early December 2012 by a netizen, "Aqua of Song Takeout". His tweet reads, "I just found two packages of Banlangen. I used it to make instant noodles." And with a picture - the familiar instant noodles floating on the dark water. This microblogging triggered a heated debate among netizens, some of whom could not help but have all kinds of fantasies about its flavor and that it is a must-have for summer; it also appeared in the hit TV series Love Apartment 4; others suspected that there would be an adverse reaction if they ate it. After that, other netizens also imitated the "dark cuisine" to create a milk powder noodles and so on.