Crossing the bridge rice noodle: Crossing the bridge rice noodle is famous for its unique flavor, exquisite materials, fine production, special eating method and rich nutrition. Crossing the bridge rice noodles originated in Mengzi County, Yunnan Province. There is also a beautiful legend about crossing the bridge rice noodles: there is a South Lake outside Mengzi County, Yunnan Province, surrounded by pine and cypress, with beautiful scenery, and a tortuous stone bridge connecting the island in the middle of the lake. There are several elegant and quiet houses on the island, which are good places for literati to recite poems and write books. There is a scholar who often goes to the island to study. His wise wife cooks meals and gives them to her husband on the island every day. However, this diligent scholar often forgets to eat because of the hard work, and often wraps his stomach with cold dishes and cold rice. As a result, his body is getting thinner and thinner, and his wife is very distressed to see it. So one day, she killed the fat hen at home, stewed it in a jar and sent it to the island for her husband to eat. However, the industrious husband forgot to eat again. When his wife came back to clean up the dishes, the dishes had not moved. The wife looked at her husband's hard work and had no intention of complaining. She is going to take the food home and heat it before sending it. But when she touched the can of chicken, she thought it was still very hot. When the lid is lifted, the soup is covered with a thick layer of chicken oil, which plays a role in heat preservation. She tasted it with a spoon and it was delicious. Since then, smart wives often give their husbands chicken and rice noodles. This story has gradually spread into a beautiful story. People make chicken soup rice noodles according to this method. Because this virtuous wife wants to cross the bridge when delivering food to her husband, people call this kind of food "crossing the bridge rice noodles".
Crossing the bridge rice noodles has a history of more than one hundred years. 1920, the old man Sun San opened a restaurant named "Renhe Garden" in Kunming, specializing in crossing the bridge with rice noodles. Over the past 80 years, through the continuous improvement and hard practice of several generations of chefs, the rice noodles crossing the bridge have become more and more delicious, with unique flavor and richer content. All Chinese and foreign guests who come to Kunming, the spring city, will want to try this Yunnan specialty food.
The present rice noodle crossing the bridge consists of three parts, namely soup, rice noodle slices and seasoning. It embodies exquisite materials, exquisite cooking and special eating methods. Put monosodium glutamate, pepper noodles and cooked chicken oil into a large-capacity porcelain bowl, and then put the cooked soup into the bowl. After the soup is served, add pigeon eggs, raw meat slices, fish slices, pork liver slices, waist slices and belly slices in turn, and then gently stir with chopsticks. When the meat slices turn white, add rice noodles and various vegetables, and then you can enjoy the delicious rice noodles crossing the bridge.
Pot rice noodle: The so-called pot rice noodle is a small pot made of copper (the diameter of the pot is about 18 cm). Add ribs soup or broth to boil, add a little side dishes such as tender leek, pea tip or cabbage, add rice noodles when the soup in the pot boils again, add appropriate amount of sweet soy sauce, salty soy sauce, refined salt, monosodium glutamate and kimchi, boil again and put in a bowl. Small pot rice noodles are delicious, sour and delicious, and are deeply loved by people.
Yunnan people's rice noodle complex
Invisible front
Endless wool
Wuji rice noodle
-Kunming folk songs in the 1980s
Invisible Front is a film imported from North Korea in 1980s. In the early 1980s, people's cultural life was rather monotonous, so such "imported blockbusters" were repeatedly watched "n" times. Endless wool refers to one of the portraits of life scenes in Kunming in the 1980s. Many female compatriots in Kunming, young and old, whether in spring, summer, autumn and winter, knit sweaters day and night to kill time, or show their ingenuity to relatives, lovers and acquaintances, or accumulate some talk between neighbors. Put rice flour and these two things together, and you can get a glimpse of Yunnan people's obsession with rice flour.
In Yunnan, rice noodles are popular snacks among people of all ethnic groups, and they are really popular in the whole province, both in urban and rural areas. Rice noodles are made of high-quality rice by fermentation, pulping, filtration, cooking, extrusion and other processes, then soaked in cold water, rinsed and cooked. Rice noodles are slender, white and elastic, cooked with ingredients, and both cold and hot food are delicious.
Yunnan people take the way of eating rice noodles to the extreme: the cooking methods are cold, hot, marinated and fried; There are countless ingredients, such as braised pork, crispy whistle, three delicacies, sausage, fried sauce, eel, bean curd and so on. There are small pot rice noodles in Yuxi, East Yunnan, cross-bridge rice noodles in South Yunnan, cold rice noodles in West Yunnan, cross-bridge rice noodles and so on.
Yunnan people have been away from home for a long time, so the first thing to do when they go home must be to go to the rice noodle shop to get hooked on rice noodles; Some even go a long way and ask people to bring a bowl of rice noodles from Kunming to satisfy their desire.
People in Yunnan prefer rice noodles. It's hard to believe if you don't see it with your own eyes. Northerners make noodles with wheat flour and cook them. Wheat was not grown in the south in the past, so noodles made of rice flour can also be cooked and eaten, which has a special taste in the mouth. I didn't know until I arrived in Yunnan that in addition to rice noodles, there is also a kind of "bait silk" made of rice. It is said that the processing method is different from that of rice flour, and the shape is flat, so it tastes a little different from rice flour. But any store is made of rice flour and bait, and the price and seasoning are exactly the same, so customers can choose. So people in Yunnan say that rice noodles also include bait. The enthusiasm and persistence of Yunnan people who prefer rice noodles will make northerners who prefer noodles stay away.
Generally speaking, in Kunming, rice noodles are 2.5 yuan a bowl, and in country hotels, they are 2 yuan a bowl. When you get to the street, you will gather, but it only costs 1 yuan. Of course, you get what you pay for, but towns are really cheaper than Kunming because there is more meat.
So, is there a difference between rice noodles and rice noodles that Yunnan people say? There is a big difference between the two. Although the "rice noodles" of the two are exactly the same in essence, they all use rice as cooked vermicelli first, but the eating method of crossing the bridge rice noodles is much more particular. This can be called changing the soup without changing the medicine.
The so-called rice flour mill can be said to be the first fast food for Yunnan people. The seller scalds the rice noodles with boiling water, then pours a spoonful of broth, and adds seasonings such as chopped green onion, pepper and soy sauce for processing or eating, which is extremely simple and convenient. No matter what level of restaurants in urban and rural areas, rice noodles are sold. Shops that only sell rice noodles abound. Regardless of nationality, men and women, people of all colors, rice flour is an essential food every day. If one day, there is no rice flour in the market in Yunnan, and Yunnan people have no rice flour to fill their stomachs, I think Yunnan people will go crazy.
If rice noodles are civilian food, then crossing the bridge rice noodles are aristocratic food. With regard to crossing the bridge with rice noodles, the story of a virtuous and painstaking wife sending rice noodles to her husband who is looking forward to being the number one "crossing the bridge" has now become a wonderful part of business and culture, adding a bit of interest to distant guests who have never eaten the so-called crossing the bridge with rice noodles, and they are qualified to raise their social status. Look at the price of shop windows in Kunming, starting from a bowl of rice noodles crossing the bridge 10 yuan, 10 yuan. It is said that it has been sold all the way to 100 yuan. Expensive because the soup is good, plus all kinds of names and fresh ways to eat "Sao Zi". But as a basic "medicine"-rice noodles, there is probably no difference between a bowl of fine rice noodles with a price of one yuan and two yuan and thick rice noodles. Nevertheless, for those who have just arrived in Yunnan, they might as well have a taste.