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Shahe rice noodles

(www.lifeofguangzhou.com)
Updated: 2010-11-08 16:10

 

Shahe rice noodles are a popular rice flour product in Guangzhou named after Shahe town of Tianhe district, Guangzhou City, where they were invented hundreds of years ago.

Shahe rice noodles are prepared with rice immersed in water from the Nine Dragon Spring on Baiyun Mountain. The rice is then ground into flour paste, steamed and cut into strips. They are clear, white, thin and tenacious. It tastes crisp and tough yet gentle.

Common cooking methods include dry frying, wet frying, boiling in soup, and mixing with salad. Sometimes, the vegetable juice and fruit juice are added when cooking, making the noodle more colorful and even more different in taste.

Fried rice noodles, a local Cantonese dish, have landed up on the 2009 list of "the 10 most favourite US recipes" published on the Los Angeles Times Website. In response, Chinese culinary experts wished to see this recipe added to the list of China's Intangible Cultural Heritage.

Obviously, in a country known as a melting pot of cultures and people, fried rice noodles in the US are rather different from in Guangdong, with the Los Angeles Times recommending adding Chinese chives, shrimps and pork as opposed to the ordinary slices of beef.

Recommended Shahe Rice Noodle Restaurant

1. Add: Huicheng Garden (Longjin Road), Kangwang Zhong Road, Liwan district, Guangzhou

Tel: 020-81394781

2. Add: Yuntai Garden, Baiyun Mountain, Guangyuan Zhong Road, Baiyun district, Guangzhou

Tel: 020-37226888；020-37227888

3. Add: No. 157 (Opposite the Liwan Lake Park), Longjin West Road, Liwan District, Guangzhou

Tel: 020-81197125