Taiyuan Sliced Noodles

Taiyuan Sliced Noodles are available in ordinary restaurants. Taiyuan Cooked Wheaten Food Restaurant at the south gate is a famous one.

Taiyuan Sliced Noodles boasts excellent workmanship and cutting skills, it is also called “Noodles Sliced by Flying Knife”. Tiled knife is adopted as the tool. The dough should be kneaded into a cylinder of more than a foot long. When slicing, people stand in front of the pot, hold the dough in one hand and slice with another hand from top to bottom, the sliced noodles drop into the pot. The noodles look like prism, with the same width and length. Skilled chef cuts out noodles very quickly, when the first noodle drops into the soup pot, the second one is floating in the air, and the third one is about to take shape, just like fish jumping in the pot. Taiyuan Sliced Noodles is hollow inside and chewy outside, has soft and smooth texture, and is easy to digest.

[Chinese Name] Taiyuan Sliced Noodles, which belongs to North East Cuisine by the ingredients - flour. It tastes hollow inside and chewy outside, with smooth texture. Taiyuan Sliced Noodles boasts excellent workmanship and cutting skills, it is also called “Noodles Sliced by Flying Knife”. Tiled knife is adopted as the tool. The dough should be kneaded into a cylinder of more than a foot long. When slicing, people stand in front of the pot, hold the dough in one hand and slice with another hand from top to bottom, the sliced noodles drop into the pot. The noodles look like prism, with the same width and length. Skilled chef cuts out noodles very quickly, when the first noodle drops into the soup pot, the second one is floating in the air, and the third one is about to take shape, just like fish jumping in the pot. Taiyuan Sliced Noodles is hollow inside and chewy outside, has soft and smooth texture, and is easy to digest. [1]

There was a legend about sliced noodles: Mongolian Tatars invaded the Central Plains and established the Yuan Dynasty. In order to prevent the rebellion of the Han people, they confiscated all the metals in every household, and stipulated that 10 households could use 1 kitchen knife to cut vegetables in turn, and they should return the knife to Tatar for safekeeping. One day, an old wife asked his husband to get the knife after kneading dough, but the knife was taken away by others, he had to return with empty hands. When he stepped out of the door of Tatar, his foot was touched by a thin sheet of iron. He picked it up and carried it in his arms. After returning home, the water was boiling, the whole family waited for the knife to cut noodles, but there was no knife. The old man was so anxious that he suddenly remembered the iron sheet in his arms. He took it out and said, “Let’s use the iron sheet to cut noodles!” The wife looked at the thin and soft iron, and muttered, “How can such a soft thing cut noodles?” The old man said angrily, “If cut fails, just chop it off.” The word “chop” inspired his wife. She put the dough on a wooden board, held it up with her left hand, held the iron sheet in her right hand, stood at the edge of the boiling pot and began to chop off the noodles. Sliced noodles fell into the pot. After boiling, she put some noodles in a bowl, added marinated juice onto the noodles, and asked the old man to take a bite first. The old man tasted it and said, “It’s good, it’s good, I don’t need to get the kitchen knife for noodles anymore.” Later, this story spread quickly throughout the middle region of Shanxi Province.