Biangbiang Noodles

11 points by nkanaev 2 years ago | 6 comments

mikhael28 2 years ago |

Shaanxi cuisine is dope - biang biang, liang pi, yang rou chuar - tasty.

Business opportunity of the century though? A salad chain in China. Spend more than a few weeks there, you might find yourself craving a Caesar.

wenc 2 years ago | |

Salad chain? Possibly among the younger more Westernized crowd but not a natural part of the diet.

There is no salad culture in most of east Asia — folks there don’t really go for raw vegetables (pickled/fermented/steamed/stir fried yes, but not raw mixed greens). It could catch on among the urban cosmopolitan crowd though.

I’ve gone all my life without ever missing salad. As my hero John Pinette would put it, “Salad is a promissory note that real food would soon arrive”

mikhael28 2 years ago | | |

That’s a funny quote, and true in the western tradition of multi course dinners. I’ve made salad for some of my Chinese family and friends, and they loved it - you have to have good sauce and local ingredients, like tofu or taco salad esque beef. Heavy sauce, for the tofu, like Vietnamese oyster sauce. Boiled corn. It works, but it’s a pain.

I just think it’s something that hasn’t had its full chance to shine in the sun, but I’m probably wrong and ignorant. Some liang cai is probably the most I will ever see

mikhael28 2 years ago | |

Especially in Xi’an lol

082349872349872 2 years ago |

From what number of strokes on do the common hanzi dictionaries have at most one entry?

rfarley04 2 years ago |

They are as delicious as Wikipedia's description is off putting