Friends in the south may not know that the famous northeast grilled cold noodles have long been unorthodox when they spread to the southern region. It is not about the taste, nor is it about the method, but the raw materials for baking cold noodles, which are completely different from the roasted cold noodles that people in the northeast eat locally.
Authentic Tohoku grilled cold noodles - using noodles, heating on an iron plate, adding eggs, seasonings, green onions, etc., in a few flips of the spatula, the noodles are wrapped in egg liquid, gradually becoming a whole piece. Before packing, cut it open with scissors for convenience for diners.
Not authentic but very common baked cold noodles - using noodles, also placed on the iron plate heating, will add eggs, ham sausages and other ingredients, want to add what to add, and finally with a shovel cut open, when eating, the noodles are slightly chewy, but almost no noodles can be eaten.
Is baked cold noodles noodles noodles? How many southern friends have had such doubts. In fact, the raw material for baking cold noodles is noodles, and it is a kind of dry refrigerated noodles that have been processed and improved. So you're right to say that grilled cold noodles are noodles. If you want to say that grilled cold noodles are the "carry handles" of the Northeast snack industry, it is not wrong.
How many food stalls in Tohoku make grilled cold noodles? No one can say for sure, but northeast people love to eat grilled cold noodles, there is no doubt, the small vendors in the northeast also love to make grilled cold noodles, and even make the baked cold noodles an inseparable part of the northeast cuisine series, which is enough to explain the status of baked cold noodles.
The reason why northeasterners love to bake cold noodles is actually very simple. The first reason is the "snack feeling" of baked cold noodles, the baked cold noodles can be eaten while walking in the hand, a bamboo stick in the hand inserted in the baked cold noodles, the mouth is the aroma of eggs, sauces, noodles, this is the feeling of the street.
The second reason is that the taste is too suitable for Northeasterners. The sweet and sour taste with sugar and vinegar just pokes the hearts of the people in the northeast, not to mention the diners in the northeast, that is, the small vendors, usually can't help but want to spread two baked cold noodles to eat themselves. Therefore, grilled cold noodles in the northeast, basically do not worry about diners.
The third reason is that the cost of baking cold noodles is low, the sales volume is high, and the goods are not pressurized. As mentioned above, grilled cold noodles are delicious, especially liked by northeasterners, and the goods prepared for a day are not worried about selling, unless your seasoning is too difficult to eat, otherwise it will generally be very popular in the market, so grilled cold noodles have endured in the northeast.
There are even three genres of grilled cold noodles, charcoal grilled, teppanyaki roasted and fried. Our most common is teppanyaki, because its operability is relatively high, imitation is relatively fast, and it is not easy to roll over. The soul of grilled cold noodles is the sauce, and if you think a portion of grilled cold noodles is not delicious, it must be that the sauce is not successful.
Back to the raw materials of baked cold noodles, the authentic roasted cold noodles in the northeast use dry cold noodles, so although the baked cold noodles are hot after baking, they are still called "baked cold noodles". So why do friends in the south see baked cold noodles, all noodles?
Because the dough is easier to handle, it will not make people busy. In the northeast, small vendors who bake cold noodles have a skill, completely wrapping noodles with egg liquid into dough sheets, not falling apart, and absorbing the flavor. However, small vendors in the southern region did not have this technology, and in order to reduce the failure rate, cold noodles were gradually improved, and later simply made into noodles.
In this way, when baking dough on an iron plate, the steps of brushing the sauce, adding eggs, sprinkling green onions, cutting dough slices, etc., are not easy to have problems. Therefore, the baked cold noodles seen by the small partners in the south are basically not authentic grilled cold noodles, but can only be said to be improved baked cold noodles.