It is impossible to talk about Zhenjiang's "local specialties" without talking about Zhenjiang's pot lid noodles. As we all know, Zhenjiang has "three monsters", the so-called "balsamic vinegar is not bad, the meat is not a dish, and the noodle pot is boiled inside the pot lid".
Pot lid noodles, one of the top ten famous noodles in China, also known as Zhenjiang knife noodles, known as "the first side of the world in Jiangnan", is a local traditional cuisine in Zhenjiang City, Jiangsu Province.
The noodles used for the pot lid noodles are "jumping noodles". The so-called "jumping noodles" is to put and knead the noodles on the board, by the operator sitting on one end of the bamboo bar, the other end fixed on the board, both up and down, and like a dance, like acrobatics, repeatedly squeezed into a thin dough skin, cut into noodles with a knife, cooked together with the pot lid, fished up and put into the bowl of seasoning. The characteristics of the pot lid noodles are that the softness and hardness are appropriate, the flexibility of the noodles is good, and it is suitable for all ages. However, it is this uncomplicated method of cooking noodles that is known as a pioneering work in the food skills of the Zhenjiang people.
Regarding the origin of the pot lid noodles, there are many folk sayings. There are allusions to Qianlong's lower Jiangnan, the story of Zhang Sister-in-law's pot lid noodle shop, and the legend of husband and wife working together to make noodles... Here is another way of saying it: there is a pair of brothers and sisters, who depend on each other for their lives. The younger brother is sick and has a bad taste, and his sister gives him food every day, but the younger brother always says that the noodles are hard. So, the sister found a way to roll out thin noodles, put the dough on the board, use a bamboo bar, people sit on it and press the dough to jump, from left to right, and then from right to left, the dough is pressed thin, and then cut into thin noodles.
My sister put the noodles into the pot and wanted to add some garlic, so she put the lid on the soup pot next to her into the big pot. Unexpectedly, such noodles made my brother eat more and more fragrantly. Originally, use a small pot to cover the air around, so that the noodles are not easy to rot, have tendons, and taste better. Since then, zhenjiang's pot lid noodles have become famous, and many noodle shops making pot lid noodles have appeared in the streets and alleys.
Pot lid noodles in Zhenjiang market is not small, the city's "authentic" and "not authentic" large and small noodle shops do not know how many, almost every family all day long customers.