What the Shuishui people call the noodles is called wontons in some places, but in fact there is a difference between the two! The noodles are larger than the wontons, and they are not eaten alone, but mixed with the soup, which is mostly chicken soup and occasionally replaced with rib soup. As a Shuishui person, I have the impression that in the 1960s and 1970s, only on the morning of the first day of the Chinese New Year, I could eat a meal with my belly open, and although I occasionally ate noodles, the average amount of meat in the filling did not exceed 2 taels per person. Now that life is good, I can eat when I want, but I am too troublesome to do it.
