There are many flavor snacks in Qinghai, including yak yogurt like tofu brain, pot helmets with hard outside and soft inside, tough stuffed skin, sweet butter tea, and hand-grabbed meat with unique taste, but the most pleasant thing for our family is Qinghai's ga noodles.
Hungry Qinghai Ga noodles
On that day, when our family of three returned from a trip to Qinghai Lake, my son was lying on the back window of the hotel, pointing outside and laughing: "Mom, you see, how funny is the name of that restaurant, what is it for?" Is it a mistake to write 'laugh' as 'small'? When I looked at it, it was a small restaurant with a small façade, and the words "small face greeted people" were written on the front of the restaurant. This noodle restaurant specializes in qinghai specialty snack "Ga noodles", "Ga" is the meaning of "small". Although it is not yet time to eat, there are already a lot of people sitting in front of several tables in the small noodle restaurant.
Soon, 3 bowls of colorful and fragrant noodles were brought to us, and the seductive noodles came to our noses, the noodles were small, the meat was silky and soft, and the potatoes were sandy. On that day, we all had a good stomach to put down our rice bowls, and even our son, who had never liked pasta very much, was too delicious.
For several days in a row, we would visit "Small Noodles" once a day and eat all kinds of ga noodles. There are a lot of patterns of noodles, including vegetarian noodles with only a little green vegetable and a little green onion; beef and mutton noodles that are fried first and then fried with noodles; there are broth noodles that are boiled first and then pulled out of the noodles; there are fried noodles that come out of the pot without soup and are poured into stir-fried noodles mixed with meat, vermicelli, peppers, and garlic seedlings; there are braised noodles with a small amount of soup and mixed with fried sauce; and there are clear soup noodles that have no vegetables and no meat and oil.
Listen to the owner of the restaurant, when making other pasta, the noodles are all and out, while the noodles that make ga noodles are pulled out and the gluten is pulled out. The dough pieces are not rolled out with a rolling pin, but are pulled out by hand. Making a piece of dough requires that the piece of noodles be small and small, as large as the fingernail cap of the thumb, so it is also called a nail patch.
Once, I went to the back kitchen to see the lady pulling the noodles, and as her hands moved, the noodles drifted into the pot like snowflakes, so fast that each piece fell into the pot accurately
A few days after returning home, my husband and son talked about Qinghai's ga noodles again. Remembering their food at that time, I used the craft I stole from the lady boss and made them a noodle slice, although the taste was not so authentic, but I finally explained the food to them.
If you go to Qinghai, remember to eat Ga noodles to ensure that you are reluctant to put down your rice bowl.