Laoyou noodles are one of the snacks in Guangxi, which is a century-old Nanning noodle dish. It is said that an old man patronized the Zhou Ji Tea House every day to drink tea, and one day because of a cold, he did not go to the tea house, and the owner of Zhou Ji made refined noodles, accompanied by fried garlic, tempeh, pepper, sour shoots, beef minced, pepper, etc., boiled into a bowl of hot noodles and sent to this old friend to eat. After eating, the old man sweated and the illness was alleviated, so he got the name of "old friend noodles". The appetizing cold repellent of old friend pasta is popular with diners and endures for a long time.
Old friend noodles have developed so far, its evolution has old friends flour and old friends fried flour, old friends flour and old friends noodles the same practice, but the main ingredient is replaced by rice noodles.
Old friend noodles are sour, spicy, salty and fragrant fresh pasta, which has the effect of dispelling wind and cold, awakening food and exciting spirits. Regarding the origin of "old friend noodles", there are many opinions among the people. It is said that in the 1930s, there was a diner who often went to a snack bar on Zhongshan Road to eat, and over time, the host became friends. Once, the diners felt the wind chill bedridden, the shop master heard about it and made a bowl of noodles for the diners, put on sour shoots, peppers, tempeh, ginger, onions, etc., the diners sweated after eating, the whole body felt comfortable and relaxed, even after a string of sneezing, the wind chill was all right, and he was happy to send a plaque to the snack bar with the book "Old Friends Often Come". "Old Friend Noodles" got its name from this.
The traditional method of making laoyou noodles is to first add fine flour to eggs and noodles, knead them repeatedly, beat them repeatedly with bamboo bars, cut into thin noodles, and then cook them with ingredients such as stir-fried garlic paste, tempeh, sour peppers, sour shoots, ground beef, vinegar, bone broth and other ingredients. The flavor is unique, the smell is sour and spicy, tempting the appetite; the appetizer is degreasing, the fragrance is endless, and it has the effect of removing wind and cold. The main ingredient is rice noodles, called "old friend powder". Since the 1950s and 1960s, Nanning Second Catering Company has been mainly engaged in old friend noodles (powder), of which zhongshan restaurant located on Zhongshan Road is the most famous, old friend noodles are also known as "Zhongshan old friend noodles", Hong Kong Wen Wei Po, Guangdong "Yangcheng Evening News" and "Nanning Evening News" and other media have introduced it.