Noodles have been made and eaten for more than 4,000 years, and different places often have many different ways of making them. Did you know that there are many legendary stories behind these different practices?
It is said that many years ago, there was a loving couple. On weekdays, the husband and wife sang together, raised eyebrows together, and respected each other as guests. Their life was very sweet. The only drawback is that my husband has a bad stomach and can't eat anything. In order to cure her husband's stomach, the wife used her brains and tried her best.
Once, she lined up the bamboo poles in rows and connected them with strings, and spread them flat on the kneaded dough. Then she found a thick bamboo stick and fixed one end on the desk. The horse is on the other end of the bamboo pole, bouncing up and down and squeezing continuously. When the dough is squeezed into a thin dough, it is cut into thin pieces with a knife and put into the pot, and water is added to the pot to cook the noodles.
She accidentally knocked a wooden soup pot lid and dropped it into the pot. Because the water was hot, she didn't pick it up and let it cook together with the noodles. Unexpectedly, the noodles cooked in this way taste surprisingly good. There are pores on the noodles pressed by Zhumi, and the marinade is delicious. The noodles that are pressed repeatedly by thick bamboo sticks are chewy and chewy. The noodles cooked by pressure cooker are well-cooked but not rotten. My husband, who has always had a bad appetite, actually has a big appetite. , ate a lot at once.
After the meal, he asked his wife what magic method she used to cook such delicious noodles. The wife told the truth, and the husband told her seriously: "The noodles made by this method have a unique flavor. It's delicious. Please cook it this way next time you cook noodles." From then on, the method of making pot noodles was taught by the words and deeds of the smart and virtuous little daughter-in-law, and slowly spread among the people.
Another way of saying it: There is a pair of siblings who depend on each other for life. My younger brother is sick and has poor taste. My sister feeds him noodles every day, but my younger brother always says the noodles are hard. So, my sister thought of a way to roll out thin noodles, put the dough on the chopping board, used a bamboo pole, and sat on it to press the dough and dance, from left to right, and then from right to left, pressing the dough thinly, and then Shave into thin noodles.
My sister put the noodles into the pot and wanted to add some green garlic. When she was in a hurry, she put the small pot lid on the soup pot next to it into the big pot. Unexpectedly, my brother ate more and more delicious noodles like this. It turns out that using a small pot to cover the surroundings allows for ventilation, so that the noodles that come out are less likely to rot, have chewy texture, and taste better. Since then, Zhenjiang’s pot noodles have become famous, and many noodle shops selling pot noodles have appeared in the streets.