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Pita Chips: making chips from hand-pulled noodles (chemian 扯面)

Posted on December 31, 2009 by jen

As a bonus from our pulled noodle adventures, I manufactured a load of…pita chips. Or some variation tasting an awful lot like the pita chips from Trader Joe’s I used to love to munch on with or without dips. After … Continue reading →

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Recipe for Hand-Pulled Noodles (chemian 扯面), biangbiang noodles (youpo chemian 油泼扯面)

Posted on December 17, 2009 by the ladies

The first step to making a good bowl of biangbiang mian, is, of course, making some good mian. At the Shaanxi restaurants we visited, the noodles were hand-pulled right before cooking, and the belt-strap wide chewy noodles of charmingly uneven … Continue reading →

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Recipe for Biangbiang Noodles (youpo chemian 油泼扯面)

Posted on December 17, 2009 by the ladies

This was the best bowl of noodles we’ve made in a long time. Today, we pulled ourselves some fresh noodles (see hand-pulled egg noodles) and made biangbiang mian. Despite the mass of chili, it’s an easy dish with simple ingredients. … Continue reading →

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Recipe for a Quick Ten Minute Lunch, or Tomato and Egg Noodles (xihongshi jidan mian 西红柿鸡蛋面)

Posted on December 4, 2009 by jen

Tomato and egg is a common homestyle dish in China, but in Beijing, I’ve also seen it stuffed into dumplings and ladled on top of noodles – both are delicious. So, a week after watching Christine eat a giant tin … Continue reading →

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