Shallots, ginger, garlic, chili, soy sauce, vinegar, oil. Basically, it constitutes the core condiment of Shaanxi people to make noodles, but Shaanxi people seem to have magic, and they can turn these condiments into the Shaanxi noodle tradition of Yangyang Grandview, which is extremely delicious. The representative of this is Yang Ling dipping in the water.
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Legend has it that during the Zhenguan years, a couple of Yang Ling mixed their mouths, and the reason for the mixing was because of the silly daughter-in-law and noodles, the noodles added more water, the water added more noodles, and the noodles were added to a certain extent, and the basin could not be put down. But I didn't think that this kind of gluten was abnormal, the longer and longer, the form of the pants pocket, after cooking, because it could not be stirred, so I had to use the aforementioned seasoning to prepare a bowl of soup, did not think that it was unusually delicious. So according to the tradition of Shaanxi snacks to make up stories, after dipping the water surface into Chang'an City, only li Shimin was supplied, And Li Shimin praised it, so he ate it every day, ate it every day, and even gave the book "Dipping Water Pants with Noodles".
Trouser belt surface
I don't quite believe this legend about dipping in the water, but there is another legend about the trouser belt that I think has some meaning:
However, he said that an official once came to a noodle shop and saw that the sign of the noodle shop read: "Noodle King" The officials were very upset, after all, not everyone was qualified to be king. So the official asked his subordinates to invite the owner of the shop, and found that it was an old man in his 60s, so the official asked: "What ability do you have to dare to be king?" ”
Not to be outdone, the old man replied, "The little old man has been making noodles with noodles since he was 6 years old, and he has been doing it all his life, and he knows all the attributes of the opposite side very well." The official said: "I have traveled south and north all my life, I don't know how much noodles I have eaten, you actually dare to say that you are the king of noodles", saying, the official took off his belt and said: "If you can satisfy me, I will give you the trouser belt given by the emperor." ”
When the old man saw that the official was coming, he had to cook a bowl of noodles and hand it to the official. After eating the noodles, the official thought it was delicious, but he didn't want to be soft, so he said, "Is this also the king of noodles?" "The commander smashed the sign in the old man's shop." The old man nodded and didn't say anything.
Not long after the official left, when he touched his waist, he suddenly felt that something was wrong, and it turned out that what surrounded his waist was a noodle made by the old man. At this time, the official realized that the old man was a tall man, and went back to reshape the gold plaque for the old man, and since then the name of the strip in the old man's shop has spread far and wide, and eventually the noodles made by the old man are also called "trouser belt noodles".
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I always thought the second story was more comfortable to tell, even though the second story was more bizarre. In fact, the invention of snacks such as trouser belt noodles is generally because people in Shaanxi often rely on the mountains to eat, the number of manual workers is large, and the bowls used by ordinary people to eat are not enough for manual workers, so for them, eating pots is actually a common meal, in many villages, such as my hometown, many years ago, people with better conditions will use aluminum basins, and people with poor family conditions will use plastic basins to wash their faces. The bowls containing the noodle soup are also what we call "enamel bowls", and each one is incredibly large.
For people today, when they come to shops dipped in water noodles, the boss usually has this custom: use pots to fill noodles and use enamel bowls to serve soup. It's just that today's people's meal volume has become smaller, the boss will charge according to the "root", generally a noodle 1 to 2 yuan, I am still 200 pounds of fat people, a meal to eat 3 to 5 noodles will be full. If it is a sister paper to eat, it is estimated that 2 noodles for a meal are enough.
"Pulling" is the soul of the dipped water surface, just like the previous story, and noodles need to be repeatedly pulled 81 times, but in fact, it is not so exaggerated, we imagine the ramen master of Haidilao, in fact, we can still know how to pull. The difference with Haidilao's master is that the noodles must not be like Lanzhou ramen, a large number of noodles rely on the gravity of the noodles themselves to complete the internal sufficiency of the noodles by pulling the noodles; the method of pulling the noodles is actually "wrestling", that is, the noodles must be dropped on the desk, and the noodles will appear more ribbed. So I always thought that the noodle master and the bathhouse master had something in common, that is, after the work was done, they had to smoke in a fixed place, but the bathhouse master smoked the ass, and the noodle master smoked the board.
In addition to pulling, another soul of dipping water noodles lies in soup, although it is an ordinary noodle soup, but dipping water noodles often requires that the soup that cooks noodles must be dumpling soup. Fusing the aroma of the dumplings into the soup, it seems that the noodle soup has also become a "broth", which is actually the magic ability of the Shaanxi people, although in those years when there was no money, shaanxi people and the whole country could not eat meat, but this "pseudo-meat" will always make people feast. Compared with the Beijingers of the same period, they were still drinking bean juice and eating brine, and the black stuff of fried sauce noodles was really delicious if the ingredients were particularly cheap? But Shaanxi people can make the ingredients cheap and the content delicious. A great invention that is proper.
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With noodles and soups, it is naturally inseparable from "dipping". In fact, it has been more and more discovered recently that the war in the 1930s caused chefs across the country to flee, and snacks everywhere have been fully developed, which is why Beijing is not delicious - they enter are refugees, and chefs have run away. The "dipping" of dipping water surface is to put it bluntly the technique of crossing the bridge rice noodles. However, the Shaanxi people have used their local advantages to further optimize. Thus reaching the realm of "oil but not greasy, fragrant but not strong, dipped but not light".
The bowl dipped in the water is made with vinegar, chili pepper, chili oil, garlic and green onions. Of course, this is only the basic model, and the sauce for dipping in the water surface changes with the seasons and people's preferences. For example, we can add some vegetables or meat to it, like rice noodles across the bridge; for example, if the bowl is large enough, we can put the noodles directly in the bowl, pour the sauce in, add tomatoes and eggs to the brine... Well, this is almost an introduction to the authentic biangbiang noodles.
In fact, the introduction of dipping water surface is written here, and everyone seems to be able to see that dipping water surface is actually a pretty "dick silk" food, so in Xi'an, there are very few restaurant owners who dip water surface, and even the restaurants that use ketchup in the soup of dipping water surface are not very many. Many of the methods of dipping the water surface are that people really like this food to go home and continue to develop, if we eat the dipping water surface in order to eat the dipping water surface, I recommend preparing a meat in advance so that you can eat a big meal.
Of course, who doesn't dime a snack? Roadside stalls also have the happiness of roadside stalls, for example, Xi'an has an old shop without a house number, the food in the store is excellent, but the boss is willful and even lazy to hang the sign, which is evaluated as "dirty and dirty", this noodle is called "dried noodles" because of the boss's attitude, "pigan" in Shaanxi dialect originally has an arrogant meaning.
But for many Shaanxi people, it is really the real place to eat noodles.