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Lanzhou beef noodles The brief introduction of Lanzhou Lanzhou is the capital city of Gansu province, which is located in the northwest of china .The whole city is sandwiched by the mountains, and it is the only capital city crossed by the yellow river. Because of the mother river of the Chinese nation - the Yellow River, Lanzhou formed not only majestic and beautiful city view, but also bred Lanzhou unique food culture. WORD LIST: sandwich 夹在中间 majestic 雄伟的 history Lanzhou is a major stop on the ancient Silk Road west of Xian. Situated on the upper reaches of the Yellow River, Lanzhou has been important for thousands of years because of the Hexi Corridor, or “Corridor West of the Yellow River,” in which early Chinese civilization began. About 3,000 years ago, in the Zhou Dynasty, agriculture began to take shape in the basins of the Jin and Wei Rivers that formed the corridor, marking the beginning of the great Yellow River basin civilization. Starting in the Qin Dynasty, merchants and traders traveling from Xian to central Asia and then on to the Roman Empire, or the other way round, broke their long journey at Lanzhou. To protect this corridor and important communications hub, the Great Wall was extended under the Han as far as Yumen, in the far northwest of present-day Gansu Province. WORD LIST: Corridor 走廊 basin 盆地 The origin and evolution of Lanzhou beef noodles Lanzhou beef noodles was founded in Guangxu years, according to the legend, it is created by the Muslim chefs called Mabaozi first. In the subsequent century long years ,the generations bring forth new from the old ,numerous beef noodle soup cooks use their wisdom and take efforts to make it more delicious. Today, it is famous for clear soup ,rotten meat and unique flavor ,and it win the praise of customers domestic and the world . It is rated by the Chinese cuisine association as one of the three largest Chinese fast food, and become the genuine China first noodle. WORD LIST: rotten 烂的 flavor 风味 cuisine 菜系 shop And now, not abound in Lanzhou, there are beef noodle shops in almost every city around the nation .And it is estimated, there is at least 1000 shops in Lanzhou. Most of noodle shops open from 6:30amto 10:00 pm ,in daily peak time, a small noodle shop could reach hundreds of people. The culture of eating beef noodles The life of Lanzhou people begines with a bowl of beef noodles. For them ,it is an indispensable part of life, and cant simply use snack defined. According to an official statistics, about 1000 noodle shops downtown Lanzhou sell more than 80 million bowls every day on average, and breakfast account for over half. In terms of the number of people in urban area ,more than 25 million residents and flowing population, one of four people want to eat a bowl of noodles every day. WORD LIST: indispensable 必不可少的 The features of beef noodles It is characterized by one-ching, two white, three red, four green, five yellow.they represent respectively the clear noodle soup, white radish, red chili oil, green coriander and garlic sprout and permeably yellow noodles. The soup is braised with beef , radish and traditional condiment for a long time. And it is very benefit for your stomach. And pay attention, the soup boiled noodles is different from the soup in the bowl. WORD LIST: coriander 香菜 radish 萝卜 garlic sprout 蒜苗 permeably 有渗透性地 braise 炖 condiment 调味品 classification Noodles according to thickness can be divided into the big wide, wide, thin, two small, capillary, leek leaves, bridge types, In which the capillary surface coarse about 0.51 mm in diameter, “two small surface coarse 1-2 mm in diameter, “capillary” surface coarse 2-3 mm in diameter. Among all kinds of noodles, the most popular is thin, two small and capillary, leek leaves shape, etc. Too thin, it will be easy to absorb water to become too soft in soup; too thick or too wide surface, it will not easy to cook or hard after cooking. Once people are used to eating one type, they will not change it commonly. I am used to eating the two small type. WORD LIST: capillary 毛细 diameter 直径 leek 韭 The hand-making process The hand-making process involves taking a lump of dough and repeatedly stretching it to produce many strands of thin, long noodles. There are several styles of twisting the dough but they all employ the same concept: a piece of dough is repeatedly stretched and folded onto itself in order to align the glutens and warm up the dough for stretching. Then it is rolled out to a workable thickness and cut into workable portions. This dough is then pulled to about an arm spans length. The puller then makes a loop with the dough, joining the two ends into one clump of dough, and inserts his fingers into the loop to keep the strand from sticking to itself. Doing this, the pull has doubled the length of the dough while fractioning its thickness. This process is repeated several times until the desired thickness and quantity is achieved. In the Lanzhou style, the dough is worked with aggressively. It is pulled in straight, quick, tugs with no twisting or waving. Some pullers regularly slam the noodle against their boards to ensure even stretching and uniform thickness. Flour is sometimes used to dust the strands and prevent sticking. WORD LIST: lump 块 strand 线 dough 面团 glutens面筋 loop 环 tug 拽 The other special food Jiangshui noodle In Summer, lanzhou people coincide to eat Jiangshui noodle. Jiangshui contains a variety of beneficial enzyme, and it can clear summer-heat ,increase your appetite .with a bowl ,you will feel refresh soon. Its taste is similar to lemon, very sour. Huidouzi Huidouzi is boiled into porridge with local ash and peas, red dates and sugar. WORD LIST: enzyme酶 porridge 粥 Hot winter fruit people like eating this street snacks for hundreds of years. Because Lanzhou is very dry in winter, hot winter fruit is the best of winter to relieve fire. With frozen pear, it is rich in fruit acid, citric acid, and sucrose, and it has the effect of clearing heat, relieving cough, improving body and removing disease etc, and is a kind of special fruit in northwest fruits. Tianpeizi is a kind of special food made from oats .The hand-making process involves fermentation like wine. When eating, you can put cold water and sugar, it is very sweet and sour. NiangPiZi is available all year round, its characteristic is orange and transparent colour and lustre, soft and resilience taste, the flavor is very special. WORD LIST: citric acid 柠檬酸 sucrose 蔗糖 oat 燕麦 fermentation发酵 colour and lustre 色泽 Is there any delicious food in your hometown? what is it? And give a brief introduction. Question
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