Jin Noodles

Jin, also known as Shanxi province, in the middle of China, is well known for its special cuisine specially noodles. Since Shanxi province has a history of two thousand years of making dishes from flour and dough, noodles in Shanxi stand for a traditional food in China and also represents the most famous dishes in Shanxi. There are a lot of types of noodles in Shanxi, including biangbiang noodle, saozi noodle, helao noodle, men noodle and daoxiao noodle, etc. Among all of the noodles, the four most famous are known as shaved noodles, pulled noodles, zhuan pan noodle, and chopped noodles. Also, the common toppings of noodles are potato, mushroom, celery, carrot and ground pork, beef or lamb.

It’s a culture value that people live in Shanxi province have a common habit that eating noodles as breakfast. Eating noodles become a tradition for people in Shanxi. When you travel to Shanxi, you will feel satisfied and excited because you can choose noodles to be cold or hot, thin or thick, stir-fried, deep-fried, boiled, soup-combined, or steamed. During the summer, people are willing to order a cold noodle and for summer, a bowl of noodle with soup would be a great choice.

In addition, there is a famous noodle restaurant called “Shanxi Noodle Museum” in Taiyuan, the capital city of Shanxi province. Wood tables and chairs were chose to decorate the restaurant, establishing a traditional style back to 1970s in China. In this restaurant, there are 280 types of noodles are served! Also, the most unique thing is the restaurant provided people with a lot of noodle performances: chefs give performances about how they make noodles and how thin they can cut the noodles. The most unbelievable is that the thinnest noodle the chef cut is even thinner than a hair!!