What is the origin of lo mein

1, the origin of lo mein:

The word "lo" in lo mein is derived from the word "road", which means "noodles sold by the roadside". The White Horse Temple was founded in the 11th year of the Yongping reign of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and was the first temple built after the introduction of Buddhism to China, and is regarded as the "Ancestral Court of the Source of Buddhism" by both Chinese and foreign Buddhist communities.

It is said that after the temple was built, the people came to the temple to worship more than a thousand people every day, and the food business around the temple was also booming. One of the most popular fast food items at that time was the Luoyang Lo Mein, which is now known as Luoyang Lo Mein. It was sold on the roadside in stalls, which were called "road noodles" at the time.

2, Henan lo mein is a colorful and fragrant local famous dishes. The snack is made from a variety of ingredients into a brine soup and noodles, vegetables, two steam and two mixed production, nearly two thousand years ago, is the world's earliest fast food, the view of the golden, chewing tendon, smell the fragrance.

Expanded Information:

Production steps:

1, first of all, put the pot on the fire, high heat heating to boil the water, the use of boiling water time to the noodles with vegetable oil mix, it is best to use cooked oil, so that mixing can prevent the noodles from steaming out of the sticky.

2, after mixing the noodles evenly placed on top of the steamer, after the water boiled the noodles on the steamer, cover the lid on high heat steaming, steaming time of 10 minutes, steam start counting time.

3, the following use of steamed noodles time to start making soup brine, hot pot cool oil slippery pot, into the pork stir-fry, so that has been stir-fried pork stir-fry oil, so that eating is not greasy, pork stir-frying skin yellowish when you let pour out the oil, the oil can also be poured out of the step, directly under the small stir-fry ingredients, so that out of the noodles is more fragrant.

4, the pan with the bottom oil sautéed star anise, pepper, and then into the onion and ginger sautéed, and finally into the pork stir-fry evenly, and then into the soy sauce sautéed color, this time you can add a little bit of soy sauce, marinade coloring depends on the soy sauce, and then into the beans, soybean sprouts sautéed and then into the celery stir-frying.

5, 3 kinds of vegetables stir-fried to tender cooked color green when adding 800 grams of water, here with the noodles is 4 pounds, and then add salt, chicken essence, monosodium glutamate, pepper, thirteen spices seasoning, the amount of salt to be a little heavier, or else the marinated noodles out of the steaming flavor is not mellow enough, the pot of broth boiled for 2 minutes after you can turn off the fire.

6, this time the noodles are also steamed, the steamed noodles while hot with chopsticks shake, and then the good marinade poured on top of the noodles, with chopsticks mix well, so that the noodles fully absorb the flavor of the juice, like a little bit of soft texture you can add a little bit of marinade appropriate.

7, and then put the mixing of the noodles on top of the steamer, high heat continue to steam for 10 minutes, 10 minutes after the steamed noodles under the cage mixing can be.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Henan Marinated Noodles