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Biang Biang Mian

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This give-and-take reads every bit 'biang'


Biang biang mian (in Chinese charaters)

Biang biang* mian is a good known noodle from Shaanxi** 陕西 Province inwards China. It is famous likely due to the complexity of its name. Biang biang noodles is an ancient recipe, has been known for over a K years.

*Biang biang is non related or sounded similar nail bang chicken.
**the terra cotta the world forces site inwards Xian is inwards Shaanxi province

It is nonetheless non clear how this weird too complex give-and-take 'biang' was created. Some said it was created yesteryear the eatery who get-go made the noodles too gave it a weird raise hence everyone would accept honour of it. There are also some folk tales maxim the Emperor at the fourth dimension created it. Here is a storey quoted from this blog:

"One day, Qin Shi Huang, the get-go emperor of the Qin dynasty of terra cotta warriors fame, was sick too lost his appetite for all of the fragile nutrient available inwards his palace. One of his servants got him a bowl of biang biang noodles, which were sold yesteryear vendors inwards the streets of Xianyang, the working capital missive of the alphabet of Qin dynasty nigh present-day Xian. Qin Shi Huang liked the noodles hence much that he designated the dish every bit a must-have nutrient inwards the palace. After Qin Shi Huang recovered, he went to the street to examine how the nutrient vendors prepared the noodles. After he saw the whole process, he proclaimed, "People inwards Qin are great, Qin volition unify the whole country, too the Qin people volition survive united too bravely ride horses to win battles to protect the solid set down of Qin. May the Qin people direct maintain biang biang noodles every twenty-four hours too view Xianyang every month." Qin Shi Huang took a brush too ink too created a grapheme for "biang" including parts of all of the words inwards his statement."

This give-and-take 'biang' is hard to recollect or write. There are several ways how people endeavour to recollect it yesteryear using rhythmic songs/poems i.e. breaking the give-and-take into its master elementary pictograms (simple characters similar English linguistic communication alphabets) which shape the complex ideogrammic combined word; something similar breaking the give-and-take 'biang' into pocket-sized pieces of jigsaws (pictograms).

Here is ane event of the vocal or poem:  


  • ( ' ) 一點上了天 (yì diǎn shàng le tiān) - 'A point rises to the heaven', represents the point on transcend of the word
  • (冖) 黃河兩道彎 (huáng hé liǎng dào wān) - 'The Yellow River has 2 bends'
  • (八) 八字大張口 (bā zì dà zhāng kǒu) -  'The give-and-take 8 opens its mouth'. '八' is 'eight' is Chinese
  • (言) 言字往進走 (yán zì wǎng jìn zǒu) - 'The give-and-take speech communication enters'. '言' is 'speech' inwards Chinese
  • (纟) 左一纽,右一纽 (zuǒ yī niǔ, yòu yī niǔ) - 'Left a twist, correct a twist'.  (纟) is the pictogram symbol for silk rhymes amongst twisting of silk
  • (長) 東一長,西一長 (dōng yī zhǎng, xi yī zhǎng) - 'one length eastward too ane length west'. This grapheme (長) agency length or growth.
  • (心) 心字底 (xīn zì dǐ) - 'The give-and-take pump (心) at the base'
  • (月) 月字旁 (yuè zì páng) - 'moon yesteryear the side'. This grapheme (月) can hateful Moon or month. 
  • (刂) 留個釣搭挂麻糖 (liú ge diào dā guà má táng) - 'a claw at the correct to hang sesame candies', because this grapheme (刂) looks similar a hook
  • (辶) 坐著車車逛咸陽 (zuò zhe chē chē guàng xián yáng) - 'ride a railroad vehicle to tour the streets of Xianyang'. This (辶) is the grapheme for railroad vehicle similar car, Equus caballus cart etc... Xianyang is the formal working capital missive of the alphabet of PRC inwards Shaanxi during the Qin Dynasty.

What is Biang Biang mian?


Biang biang mian is super broad handmade noodles nearly 4 cm. Some called it belt noodles. It's a pitiful human being noodles amongst elementary ingredients, flavoured amongst some chopped garlic, jump onion too a elementary spicy sauce. The concluding drizzling amongst boiling oil convey out the flavor of the herbs too spices. Use freshly rendered lard for a fifty-fifty amend flavour.

How to brand Biang biang noodles?

Ingredients: (recipe makes 2 large bowls)

300g staff of life flour or high gluten flour
about 180 ml water
1 tsp salt 

oil for coating dough

Sauce:
3 tbsp lite soy
1 tbsp night soy
2 - three tsp Chinkiang vinegar
1/2 tsp chicken bullion powder, optional
2 - three tbsp warmed non salted stock or water
some carbohydrate to taste

spice mix:  (amount of spice mix is to a greater extent than than plenty for this qty of noodles, go on excess for futurity use)
1.5 tsp sichuan peppercorns
1 tsp fennel seed
1 tsp cumin seeds
1 star anise, interruption into pocket-sized pieces
1 - three tsp chilli pulverisation or chilli flakes (amount upwardly to you lot too spiciness of chilli)

4 - five  clove garlic finely chopped
2 - three stalks of jump onion finely chopped

about 1/3 loving cup of cooking oil or freshly rendered lard***

some greenish vegetable similar pak choi

Method:
Dough is quite elementary exactly must survive stretchy.
  1. To brand the noodle dough, mix flour, H2O too common salt together to crude oil dough. Leave to balance for fifteen minutes. Knead for nearly five minutes or till smoothen too pliable.  If dough is gummy knead amongst a chip dry out flour. Leave dough to balance for thirty min - 1 hr.
  2. While the noodle dough is resting develop the other ingredients. Dry roast the spices (except chilli pulverisation or chilli flakes) for 1 - 2 min till fragrant. Leave to cool hence the world to pulverisation amongst chilli pulverisation or flakes. Mix the sauce ingredients together. Prepare the garlic too jump onion.
  3. Divide the dough into 8 pieces. Roll each slice into a measure sausage shape. Put some oil on a apartment plate. Roll each sausage dough amongst oil. Leave to balance for few minutes. 
  4. Place dough sausages on construct clean working area, flatten too smoothen amongst fingers to nearly 2 - three mm thick 4 - five cm wide. Leave to balance for some other few minutes. Press each slice over again thinner to nearly 30+cm long, gently lifting too stretching the dough helps to stretch it further. Brush transcend surface of dough amongst to a greater extent than oil. Leave to balance for some other five - 10 minutes. Resting at each phase helps the dough to relax hence it tin dismiss survive stretched easier. Oil also helps to stretch the dough. 
  5. Get ready a pot of vigorously boiling water. Take a slice of flatten dough traveling pocket amongst both hands, ane at each halt of the dough, gently stretch every bit far too every bit sparse every bit you lot tin dismiss to a belt similar noodle nearly 1 metre or longer.  When stretching, flip/swing the noodle upwardly too downwards gently at the same fourth dimension helps to stretch it easier. Drop the noodle direct into boiling H2O too gear upwardly for nearly 2 minutes. 
  6. While cooking the noodles popular inwards some greenish vegetable, blanch till tender.
  7. Put plenty noodles too greenish veggie inwards a bowl. Heat oil/lard inwards a pocket-sized saucepan till rattling hot. Drizzle some sauce on noodles. Sprinkle on some garlic, jump onion too spice powder. Finally drizzle on some boiling hot oil/ lard on the herb too spice mix. You volition honour the oil/lard volition sizzle inwards contact amongst the herb too spice mix. Mix too enjoy.
Mix too ready to enjoy

Biang biang noodles are inexpensive exactly tasty. Good fun to brand too.

***To homecoming lard, cutting some pork fatty into pocket-sized pieces. Stir shaver till liquid fatty is rendered too pork fatty meat turns to dark-brown too crunchy pork scratching. The pork scratching tin dismiss survive added to the noodles to add together flavour.