On March 31, Yibin City, Sichuan Province, "Yibin Burning Noodle College" was officially unveiled.
This news immediately attracted countless ridicule and questions: can a bowl of burning noodles support a college?
Netizens with big brains have followed the post: next you can open Lizhuang White Meat College, Meishan Kimchi College, Yunnan Bridge Rice Noodle College, Lanzhou Ramen College, Chongqing Hot Pot College, Chengdu Husband and Wife Lung Film College...
The college is currently listed in the school cafeteria
In the face of ridicule and doubts, the relevant person in charge of Yibin Burning Noodle College explained that the complete name of Yibin Burning Noodle College should be "Yibin Vocational and Technical College Of Burning Noodles", which is the College of Burning Noodles under wuliangye Technology and Food Engineering College under Yibin Vocational and Technical College. "It is a systematic course of Yibin noodle series such as the history of Local Famous Snacks, skill inheritance, management and marketing, etc., which is mainly based on Yibin noodles, the most important of which is vocational skills training."
Yibin noodles: breakfast in the first city of the Yangtze River
Yibin City, Sichuan Province, is located at the confluence of jinsha river and minjiang river, and has the reputation of "the first city of the Yangtze River". The developed inland waterway shipping has cultivated the typical dock culture of the city, and has also formed many local famous foods that are inseparable from the dock culture. Yibin noodles are one of them.
Yibin burning noodles were formerly known as Xufu burning noodles, formerly known as fritter noodles. Using local high-quality noodles as the main ingredients, Yibin crushed rice sprouts, small ground sesame oil, fresh plate chemical oil, star anise, Shannai, sesame seeds, peanuts, walnuts, gold strip peppers, fine peppers, monosodium glutamate and chives, pea tips or spinach leaves and other accessories, the noodles are cooked and fished dry to remove the alkali taste, plus the accessories to become a loose red, fragrant, spicy and hemp, delicious and refreshing food. Because of its oil weight and no water, ignition is ignited, so it is called burning noodles.
Because the noodles are delicious and hungry, they are quite popular with low-class citizens with high labor intensity, such as dock workers and boatmen. After hundreds of years of inheritance, it has become a unique local snack. In 2011, Yibin burnt noodles were officially included in the list of intangible cultural heritage of Sichuan Province.
With the improvement of economic level and the diversification of people's taste needs, Yibin noodles have gradually developed from a single variety to dozens of varieties such as meat noodles, soup noodles, mushroom noodles, beef noodles, stewed chicken noodles, and spicy chicken noodles.
Stroll through the streets and alleys of Yibin, where you can meet the signs of the museum. No matter how big or small the noodle shop, burning noodles are always the first variety.
Although it has undergone many economic system reforms, the "Yibin Burning Noodle Restaurant" on Renmin Road in Yibin District has always been affiliated with the former Yibin Catering Service Company (state-owned), and the staff of the noodle restaurant are basically the old employees of the original catering service company and their descendants. It is the only noodle shop in the local area that insists on making Yibin noodles with traditional craftsmanship. Every day, locals and outsiders come here to taste an authentic bowl of Yibin noodles.
In 2017, the Yibin Municipal Government promoted the development of the Yibin burnt noodle industry at a high level, established the "Yibin Burnt Noodles" National Geographical Indication Product Protection Declaration Leading Group, and formulated the "Yibin Burnt Noodles Industry Development Plan (2017-2021)", which laid out the industrial status, development goals, development ideas, key tasks and safeguard measures, and strived to form an industrial scale of 10 billion by 2021, and build Yibin burnt noodles into the third city business card after Yibin wine and Yibin tea.
Cao Zhiqing, the inheritor of burning noodles, taught the art of burning noodles
It only takes six days to master the general skills of burning noodles
At the age of 17, Cao Zhiqing entered the former Yibin Catering Service Company as an apprentice. In 1975, he learned the inheritance skills of burning noodles according to the company's arrangement, and accompanied him for more than 30 years.
"Yibin Burn is very strict in the face of various raw materials, especially secret soy sauce and sesame oil fried with a variety of spices, which is the key to the rich taste of burn noodles." After years of exploration, Cao Zhiqing has explored his own set of methods in every aspect of raw material selection, oil temperature control, spice addition time, noodle boiling time, and selection of sprouts and chives. In 2016, Cao Zhiqing was named a representative inheritor of Yibin's traditional noodle making skills by the Sichuan Provincial Department of Culture, and has appeared on CCTV's Intangible Cultural Heritage and Food Column for many times.
After the establishment of Yibin Burnt Noodle College, Cao Zhiqing was hired as a visiting professor to teach courses related to the burnt noodle process.
Cao Zhiqing said that in recent years, he has often been invited by various localities to conduct a series of technical training on Yibin noodles for migrant workers and other independent entrepreneurs. "As long as you study carefully, you can master the basic techniques in six days."
Cao Zhiqing said, of course, if you want to master all the skills of Yibin noodles and become a high-level noodle craftsman, it will take longer.
Cao Zhiqing hopes that in the process of teaching the cooking noodle craft skills at the Burning Noodle Academy, he will be able to find good seedlings and cultivate successors for the next generation of non-genetic inheritance of burning noodles.
Yibin noodles can really burn
Burning Noodle Academy? There is also a secondary college above
"Burning Noodle Academy? Oh. On April 6, an old noodle restaurant on the north bank of the Min River in Yibin, the owner Mr. Zeng laughed dumbly when he talked about this topic, "Burning noodles can set up a college, so can I be a professor after decades of burning noodles?" ”
Yibin Vocational and Technical College is located on the banks of jinsha River, approved by the Sichuan Provincial People's Government in 2002, and was formed by the merger of Yibin Agricultural School, Yibin Industrial (Agricultural Machinery) School and Yibin Adult Secondary Professional School. According to the information on the official website of the school, the college covers an area of 829 acres, with more than 700 faculty members and more than 13,000 students. The total value of teaching instruments and equipment is nearly 110 million yuan, and there are 12 second-level colleges.
The relevant person in charge of the asset management company of Yibin Vocational and Technical College, which participated in the preparation of the Burning Noodle College, introduced to the cover news that the full name of Yibin Burning Noodle College is "Yibin Vocational and Technical College Burning Noodle College", which is a subordinate college of Wuliangye Technical and Food Engineering College, a second-level college under Yibin Vocational and Technical College.
"Isn't that equivalent to a major in Wuliangye Academy?" In the face of the cover news reporter's questions, the relevant personnel said that the college was established after approval by the education administrative department, so there was no problem in the establishment procedure.
Yibin Burning Noodles College was inaugurated
According to reports, the burning noodle college has not yet started after the unveiling, and the college's sign is currently hanging in a canteen in Area A of Yibin Vocational and Technical College. "In the early days, we mainly conducted free training for school students, in order to let students master one more vocational skills in labor and broaden the path for future employment." Chen Huan, chairman and general manager of the asset management company, said that in addition, the college will also carry out training work for those who have the intention of starting their own business and re-employment.
Chen Huan said that the establishment of the Burning Noodles College is mainly to cooperate with the development strategy of "10 billion burning noodles industry" of the Yibin Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government, large-scale training of catering professional and technical talents led by burning noodles, the development of burning noodles series products, the opening of Yibin burning noodle chain franchise stores, and the expansion and strengthening of the Yibin burning noodles industry.
According to reports, the asset management company plans to take the "Yibin Burning Noodle Cooking Technical Specification" jointly issued by the Yibin Catering and Cooking Industry Association and the Food Industry Association as the standard, and first pilot the standardized chain operation of Yibin burning noodles in several university canteens in Yibin, so as to accumulate experience for the future opening of chain operations in the catering market.
Curriculum, in addition to the surface process, there is also business management
How about a college with a specialization of at least three years, a labor skill that only takes a few days or a few months to master? After graduation, will students become "koban noodle masters" as netizens ridicule?
Chen Huan said that in the early days of the college, it was mainly based on short-term training, and the complete professional curriculum is still being improved. "In addition to courses such as noodle technology, noodle history and culture, and nutritional composition analysis of noodles, a series of courses related to the operation of noodles need to be mastered, such as marketing management, promotion and publicity, and even store selection and decoration." To put it bluntly, we just want to take the burning noodles as the leader and cultivate high-level catering management talents, rather than just cultivating a noodle master. ”
What diplomas can students of the Noodle Academy get after graduation? "At present, only students can be issued with a certificate of labor skills issued by the vocational and technical college."
Source: Cover News
Editor: Liu Dan