Guilin's landscape is the world, Guilin's cuisine is also very famous, Guilin's food is the most evocative, tireless is the bowl of Guilin rice noodles with a burst of halogen. Traditional Guilin rice noodles include horse meat powder, marinated meat powder, soup vegetable powder, beef brisket powder and other old four, of which horse meat rice noodles are the first of the traditional old four kinds of Guilin rice noodles. In Guilin, you can eat marinated vegetable noodles everywhere, but horse meat rice noodles are rare, and Yixuan should be one of the few horse meat rice noodle shops in Guilin.
This shop is located at the intersection of Jiefang West Road and Taiping Road, in the alley diagonally opposite the Smile Hall Mall, next door to Haitian Intestinal Powder. A Chinese-style shop, antique doors, the shop is very textured wooden tables and chairs, the environment is not bad. The old shop, which has been passed down for hundreds of years, was once identified as the first batch of "Guangxi time-honored brands".
The history of horse meat rice noodles is very long, it is said that it began in the Daoguang years of the Qing Dynasty, the heyday was before liberation, when the war swarmed, the exiled masses gathered in Guilin, the soldiers and horses came and went, many horses were slaughtered to make meat, so the horse meat rice noodle business flourished.
In the past, horse meat and rice noodles were served in special small plates, the size of the palms of the hand, one person took a bite and a plate, and after eating several plates at a time, many people had to eat twenty or thirty plates to be full.
Now they are all packed in large bowls, the price is more expensive than the general Guilin rice noodles, two or two is 14 yuan a bowl, three two is 17 yuan, equivalent to two or three times the price of ordinary rice noodles.
The key to horse meat rice noodles is the production of horse meat, using two methods of curing and waxing, the taste of pickled horse meat is sweet, and the meat of horse meat is fragrant. It is best not to add too many ingredients and side dishes to eat horse meat rice noodles, it is best to eat them in the original way, or simply add some green onions and coriander.
The soup of the rice noodles is made by boiling the horse bone for several hours continuously, and the rice noodles are directly blanched in the horse bone broth and put into the bowl together with the soup. Rice noodles are smooth and smooth, the soup is milky white, the aroma is fragrant, and the onyx-colored bacon meat is as translucent as ham, fragrant in the mouth, durable and durable, and the more chewy, the more fragrant it is.