Old friend powder is a special snack in Nanning, Guangxi, known for its sour and delicious flavor, its source is about ninety years ago, because an old man often patronizes a tea house, and the tea house owner becomes friends, because the old man is old and cold for a few days did not go to the tea house, the tea house owner misses him very much, he mixed pepper sour shoots and pepper tempeh and other sweaty ingredients together to cook noodles, sent to the old man to eat, the old man ate an appetite to sweat a lot, the cold is good, so this snack spread, known as the old friend noodles, people call it old friend noodles, Because it is popular to eat rice noodles in Guangxi, it later evolved into old friend powder.
In Nanning there are a lot of delicious old friends powder, streets and alleys can eat, in Qingxiu District there is a Shu Ji powder shop, is twenty-four hours open, here fire for thirty years, is the old friend powder circle of the handle, the façade is very large, half of the street shops are their home, and clean and bright, their home is three shifts, many waiters, also very enthusiastic, 24 hours do not worry about business, even the evening guests than the day, let many people envy, but because of the good taste, so the locals love to eat, admiring the foreign tourists are also many.
The shop is a bright kitchen stove, through the glass window can see the entire operation process, such as the clouds flowing water, look very comfortable, and the hand speed is very fast, two stoves responsible for frying yards, now fried now eat very fresh, there is a pot of broth, several pots of spices placed there, each will be used, each bowl of old friend powder is freshly made and a lot of ingredients are very sufficient, he is the first line to order food to pay, and then take the small ticket to the window, using an iron nail board, the receipt can be pasted on it, this iron plate is also a Nanning specialty, It has been used for many years and has a great sense of age.
Every time you see the master boiling rice noodles on a high fire, it will make people feel very grounded, it is a unique pyrotechnic gas of Nanning, all kinds of materials are fried into the broth, and then put in the slippery rice noodles, just the right heat to let the rice noodles maintain their own sticky and smooth taste, eat it is not soft and rotten at all, but the entrance is melted, all kinds of delicious materials taste heavier, but do not rob others of their style, but they integrate their own advantages together, so that the taste is more abundant, and it is really too fragrant to eat.
Beef powder is the specialty of the store, garlic tempeh and other stir-frying, add fresh beef quick fry, and then quickly cook the powder, green onions can be added casually, sour shoots sour and pepper spicy fusion of sour and spicy taste and usually eat sour and spicy powder is not the same, is a spicy and not heartburn but can make people sweat the pain and pleasure, when the weather is cold to a bowl of special satisfaction, no wonder the old man eats a bowl even cold is good. There are also many ingredients that can be ordered, like what pork liver is very tender, there is no peculiar smell, the powder sausage is also sticky and very Q bomb, cooked just right, from head to toe is a sense of happiness and warmth.
Travel to Guangxi, go to Liuzhou to eat snail powder, go to Guilin to eat rice noodles, come to Nanning then you have to eat old friend powder, and this shop is definitely worth a try, hot incense, let people still be unsatisfied!