Noodle is one of the most popular main courses in China. 4000 years ago, Chinese people developed a new way to eat cereals and beans. Make the cereals and beans into the dough and rolled flat to cut or pull hard to change the shapes into long strips. In China, there are so many different ways of making noodles with different taste.

Today, I will introduce one of the most famous noodle styles in China, it called Lanzhou noodle or Beef noodle soup from Gansu province. Basically, there are 2 types of noodles in China, dry noodles (mix with sauce, stir-fried and cold mix sauce) and noodle soup. The Lanzhou noodle is the noodle soup type. The shape of the noodle can be different, such as regular, flat， slim and etc . The different shape of noodle gives the dish a different taste. When the chef making the dough into noodles, they need to pull the dough up and fall the dough onto the table while holding the two side part of the dough until the dough become noodle. The soup comes with the noodle takes even more effort to make: use flash cut beef and bones with spices to boil more than 5 hours.

There is a standard for Lanzhou noodle: “clean, white, red, green, yellow.” Clean means soup has to be clean as water but with decent flavor. White, red, green, yellow means white radish, chili oil, parsley and the color of the noodle. According to existing history book in China, the Lanzhou noodle style establishes in Qing dynasty by Weijing Chen who gives the standard for Lanzhou noodle.

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The restaurant I will introduce to you today called Orient Express Toronto, they are located in Scarborough, ON. Don’t be confused by the name of the restaurant, they are not express, they have a very nice hand made noodles with traditional way. They have done some basic modify on the noodle recipe to meet the local taste but keep the original taste. The chili oil they have are homemade with fresh dried crushed chili. Try the noodles there and you will see the true beauty of the noodle culture.

the following website is their website, but maybe required translate http://www.dongfanggong.com.cn/

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