Biangbiang noodles

Biángbiang noodles are a type of pasta that can be found in Shaanxi Province in northwest China. The special thing about these noodles is its thickness and length, and the characters. They are often compared with trouser belts and are among the "Eight oddities of Shaanxi " (陕西 八大 怪).

• 2.1 Computer Input
• 2.2 Nursery Rhymes
• 2.3 Origin of the character

About the noodle

Origin

The noodles come from the local area Xi'an, specifically from the small village Kangwang Cún (康王村) in the county Huxian (户县) west of the provincial capital of Shaanxi. That says in any case a broadly based research, carried out in October 2009 from the TV stations and TV Shaanxi Xi'an TV. The raw material is wheat flour, in ancient times it was more of a mixed meal from piston and millet, buckwheat elsewhere.

Production

Pure handicraft: To prepare the pasta dough is rolled with a kind of broom handle again and again until he is circular and reaches about the size of a small table top and the thickness of 1 to 2 mm. Thereafter, the dough is cut with a knife into long strips of about 3 to 4 cm wide, the circular shape is a different length condition. In other places, the noodles are cut more diamond-shaped.

For cooking they are thrown into a large pot of boiling water ( no salt! ) When forming foam, will be deleted with cold water " ," so three to four times.

Consumption

Traditionally, you eat the noodles with a few cubes of meat, some tofu, green leafy vegetables, bean sprouts and the inevitable Youpo Lazi (油泼 辣子) - dried, crushed chili peppers, which are doused with boiling oil - salt and vinegar. This is one of the other special features of Shaanxi watch the eaters do not sit on the benches, they sit! The noodles you like to drink the pasta water.

Once a poor man's dish of farmers, find the noodles used more and more in better restaurants in the cities and are now regarded as a specialty.

The character biang

Computer input

As the characters ' biang " is very rarely used, it can not even be entered on the computer, often remedy is to gradually with phonetic replacement as棒棒 面( mian Bàngbàng ) or梆梆 面( mian Bāngbāng ). Even easier is the use of Pinyin in newspapers and books.

Nursery Rhymes

There are a number of nursery rhymes, mostly in Shaanxi dialect that can help one to this complicated character to remember.

One version goes like this:

Origin of the character

The origin of pasta as well as the character biang are not understood. One story claims the sign biang was invented by the Prime Minister of the Qin Dynasty Li Si. At least you can not find in truly comprehensive Kangxi Dictionary, which indicates that it was created much later than during his lifetime Li Sis to it.

The Biangbiang noodle is certainly very old, the sign but seems to be " only " a few hundred years old, a kind of business logo in which a clever graphic of the Ancients has the businessman built into pretty much everything to do with a good pasta may have:

Stylistically, a kind of pot, in which a lot is, namely twice the character长"long" because the long noodles should already be a马"horse" ( in ancient China the poor came from and to the benefit of meat, namely when a horse fell down dead), the " moon " is actually a shortened form of the character肉"flesh" and the " hook " with " sesame candy cane " is a short form of刀character " knife," a心"heart " for the enjoyment ( with a heart in the character, is mostly about something that you feel, smell, can taste ), surrounded by the characters for辶" go " - speak, the" noodle on the go. " Still missing the head of the character, a kind of pot lids, actually the character穴- ( change ) and below the upper part of the long character bian4 ( xue cavity ) -变that the entire character gives his sound, because when eating a smacking sound, something like " biang - biang - biang " makes.

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