What is the authentic crossing the bridge rice noodles like? Why is it called "crossing the bridge"?

Crossing the bridge rice noodles is a special snack in southern Yunnan, Yunnan Province. It belongs to Yunnan cuisine and originated in Mengzi area. Is prepared from soup stock, seasoning, pork tenderloin slices, chicken breast slices, mullet slices, medium-rare pork tenderloin slices, belly head slices and water-soaked squid slices.

Accessories include pea tips and leeks, as well as coriander, shredded onion, shredded grass buds, shredded ginger, magnolia slices and tofu skin; The staple food is rice noodles slightly scalded with water. Goose oil cover, hot soup, but not steamed.

Crossing the bridge rice noodles has a history of more than one hundred years. According to legend, in the Qing Dynasty, there was an island in the middle of a lake outside Mengzi in southern Yunnan. A scholar went to study on the island. The scholar's virtuous and hardworking wife often cooks his favorite rice noodles and sends them to him for dinner, but when he leaves the island, the rice noodles are no longer hot. Later, I accidentally sent chicken soup. Miss Scholar found that chicken soup was coated with a thick layer of chicken oil like a pot cover to keep the soup warm. If you eat with seasoning and rice noodles, it will be more refreshing. So she first cooked the clear soup of fat chicken and bone, and then coated it with thick chicken oil; Rice noodles are made at home. Many ingredients are sliced on the island and cooked in boiling oil. Then rice noodles are added, which is delicious and smooth. As soon as this law was spread, people followed suit, because it was necessary to cross the bridge to the island and to commemorate this good wife. Later people called it "crossing the bridge rice noodle".

In fact, crossing the bridge refers to a kind of practice, not really crossing the bridge. That is to say, prepare all the ingredients first, including plates, scalded rice noodles and chicken soup heated in advance. After serving, pour the ingredients into the casserole and cook with the waste heat of the casserole. This process is called crossing the bridge. Therefore, whether it is an authentic rice noodle crossing the bridge depends on two points, one is whether to use a casserole, and the other is whether the ingredients are poured into the casserole after serving. If you don't have these two points, then you must be eating fake rice noodles.

Crossing the bridge rice noodle has been included in the important intangible cultural heritage of Kunming, which is the first economic project in Kunming to be included in the intangible cultural heritage.