(Xiao Bao of the editorial department of the Food Treasure Book is a native of Qinghai, and when he returned to his hometown during the Spring Festival, he ate his bowl of noodles from snacks to large for the first time.) ）
Ga noodles are the most "everyday" food of Qinghai people, and there is no one.
Nowhere is there any place where people love ga noodles as much as qinghai people.
People who leave Qinghai and go to other places will definitely miss the noodles the most.
In the local dialect, "ga" means small, placed before "noodles", expressing people's liking for it. In the traditional Chinese mind, the more you like a thing, the more you like to use the name to "badly practice", such as "dog ignore", "dog egg", "second egg", "fat ni", etc., Qinghai's ga noodles are the same, "Ga" contains the "big love" for the noodles.
Because it is grounded enough, the practice of ga dough is also very simple. Almost everyone who needs to go down to the kitchen will do it, and it must be able to do it, otherwise it will be sorry for the stomach of qinghai people.
Although the dough is relatively fast to make, it is a very test of women's craftsmanship. The size of the dough is the key factor in measuring this craft, and the good dough is as large as the fingernails, thin and symmetrical, called "nail dough sheets"; the bad dough pieces are large and thick, and the size is different, the shape is not formal, people ridicule it as "mouth noodles", which means that the face leaves are too large to fit into the mouth.
Although the noodles are the same, they can make different flavors, which depends on what "material" is put in the noodles. If you put in the vegetable melon, it is "vegetable melon noodles"; after the noodles are ready, beaten with eggs, it is called "egg noodles"; add fresh lamb, a pot of lamb flavor, also known as "lamb noodles"; if the noodles are beaten with a colander, put in meat and fried sauce, it is called "braised noodles"; when they are beaten out and fried with noodles and meat, they are called "fried noodles". Don't look at the noodles, although small, but it is still very exquisite to eat.
Most of the lanzhou ramen restaurants in China are opened by Qinghai people (mainly Xunhua and Hualong), and noodles are often seen in these Lanzhou ramen restaurants. However, the average person does not know that if someone orders noodles in these Lanzhou ramen restaurants, then nine times out of ten they are Qinghai people. In addition, the production of noodles requires a "pinching" process, which is more time-consuming, so the price of noodles in many restaurants is relatively high, and the average person is relatively small.
Noodles are a favorite dish of Qinghai people, on this basis, there are also many "little known" customs, in the past, if the man went to the woman's home to propose, the woman's family such as the top of the piece, the man's family knows what it means, indicating that it was rejected, because the noodles are broken; such as the long ramen noodles on the end, indicating that the marriage can be achieved. However, these customs have become the past, and now people don't care much, and many young people have not even heard of it.
In Qinghai, many noodle restaurants now use machines to make noodles through machines. To be honest, although the machine improves efficiency and can be mass-produced, it is indeed inferior to manual in terms of taste. Purely handmade ga dough, the taste is simply a word: absolute.