Editor's Note
This year's National Day and mid-autumn festival, in this national celebration of the festival, Dahe Network around the province selected for the "Guotai Min'an National Day Noodles" book of twelve kinds of special noodles, especially launched the "National Day new tide Yu to see good face" special planning, not afraid of only one side of the fate, Henan is responsible for smiling. Come to Henan to eat a bowl of noodles and celebrate the 71st birthday of New China together!
Dahe Network News (reporter Cai Changwei Han Miaoyu) "I grew up eating wonton noodles for decades, and now I go to work in other places, and the first thing I do every time I go back to my hometown is to eat a bowl of wonton noodles, this hometown flavor can't be eaten anywhere else..." At noon on October 1, in the ZhangJi Chaoyang Dumpling Noodle Shop on Bayi Road in Wuxian County, Ms. Wang, who visited relatives from Zhengzhou back to Yixian County, and her family were eating hot wonton noodles with relish.
On the same day, the 3rd China • Yuxian Food culture week and the first Wuxian Rao Festival kicked off in the Yuxian Food Court, and tourists from surrounding counties and cities came here to taste the "delicious taste on the tip of the tongue". In the Zhang Ji Chaoyang Dumpling Noodle Shop, the continuous customer keeps the masters in the store busy.
At about 3 p.m., the number of customers gradually decreased, and the owner of the store, Ma Jifang, had time to sit down and be interviewed by a reporter from Dahe Network.
"Our family has been making dumpling noodles for more than 60 years, and we have been passed down for three generations, and our family training is to be a good person and make good noodles..." Ma Jifang told Dahe Network reporters, and her husband's grandfather Zhang Heshun began to make dumpling noodles in the state-run canteen in 1956. In 1968, due to the restructuring of the state-run canteen, Zhang Heshun began to pick up the burden of rushing to sell dumpling noodles, and in 1975, he built a shed in front of his house to sell wonton noodles, and passed on the business to his son Zhang Xuewa, who worked until 1990, passing on the business to zhang Chaoyang, who was already married to Ma Jifang.
Therefore, Ma Jifang and her husband Zhang Chaoyang rented two brick houses in the northern section of Bayi Road in the county seat of Yuxian County and started their own entrepreneurial road.
Riding on the spring breeze of reform and opening up, coupled with their hard work, the business is getting better and better. In 2000, they bought two facade houses next to the store. After having their own façade, their motivation is even greater. In 2015, due to business needs, they bought two facade houses next to them and built four three-story large stores together.
"For decades, we have been adhering to the family motto of 'be a good person, make good noodles', using high-quality wheat and high-gluten flour, good local lamb, relying on word of mouth, the business is getting more and more prosperous, and the people who come to eat noodles every day are endless." Ma Jifang and her husband, while making noodles, also opened a training school to teach the craft of making wonton noodles to students who are willing to come to learn from all over the country, "Our wish is to let people all over the country eat delicious and delicious wonton noodles, and pass on the traditional craft of yuxian wontons and carry forward them."
According to the records of Wuxian County, the Yuxian Dumpling Noodles were imported from Shaanxi in the early Ming Dynasty, and it is a famous snack with exquisite materials, unique characteristics and a thousand-year history.
It is a round strip noodle food called shelf noodles in the early days. The production of wontons is generally made in two large pots, one of which is boiled with fat and tender lamb and lamb bones (commonly known as old soup), and the other is specially used for dumplings. In the old days, due to the lack of electricity and backward technology, the production was limited to the original manual stage - the bird bed was riding sideways on the cauldron of the bird bird, and the reconciled soba noodles and wheat noodles were put into the bird bed (this bed was mostly made of hardwood, with a round hole in the middle, a hole below, and a round wooden pillar slightly smaller than the diameter of the round hole to squeeze into the hole), and the person sat on the lever to force the noodles to fall into the boiling pot from the hole below, wait for the noodles to press to a certain length, and then cut the noodles from below, cook them and then match them with various toppings. This kind of noodles, eating with muscles and smooth mouth, simple operation, fast speed, very suitable for multiple people to eat.
With buckwheat noodles as the fabric, the first bird in Wuxian County adds peppers and centuries-old pot soup and fresh and delicious lamb made of pure mutton oil, supplemented by more than ten kinds of ingredients such as star anise, fennel, pepper, pepper, cinnamon, green onion, goji berries, etc., which not only taste delicious, fragrant but not greasy, but also have the functions of warming the stomach and driving away cold, nourishing yin and aphrodisiac, health care and disease prevention. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, wheat noodles were replaced by soba noodles, and the taste was more nutritious. The book "Chinese Flavor Diet" calls the "Spleen and Stomach, Health Preservation Treasure".
In Yixian County, in addition to the county seat, all townships and villages have dumpling shops. When peasants go to the town to catch a market, a meeting or run an errand in the town, they can't help but eat a bowl of wonton noodles. If the farmer is busy and there is no time to cook at noon, the whole family will go to eat wonton noodles together. In addition to eating, you can also drink hot soup in a large bowl. If you're eating a lot, you can also add a piece of burnt yellow crispy fire-roasted cake (most of the dumpling shops have kang fire). If you put some crushed coriander, green onions and a big spoonful of sheep fat and spicy oil, you will eat well and enjoy it!
Many people in Wuxian County generally eat a bowl of wonton noodles before going to other places, and the first meal they eat after coming back is also wonton noodles, eating into the mouth, fragrant to the heart! It can be seen that the local people love the noodles deeply.