La mian is a type of hand-made or hand-pulled Chinese noodle. It is also the name of the dishes that use these noodles.
Dishes using la mian are usually served in a beef or mutton-flavored soup called tāngmiàn (湯麵), but sometimes stir-fried and served with a tomato-based sauce, this dish being called chǎomiàn (炒麵). Literally, 拉 (lā) means to pull or stretch, while 麵 (miàn) means noodle. The hand-making process involves taking a lump of dough and ...
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La mian is a type of hand-made or hand-pulled Chinese noodle. It is also the name of the dishes that use these noodles.
Dishes using la mian are usually served in a beef or mutton-flavored soup called tāngmiàn (湯麵), but sometimes stir-fried and served with a tomato-based sauce, this dish being called chǎomiàn (炒麵). Literally, 拉 (lā) means to pull or stretch, while 麵 (miàn) means noodle. The hand-making process involves taking a lump of dough and repeatedly stretching it to produce many strands of thin, long noodle.
Small restaurants serving Lanzhou-style la mian are very common in eastern Chinese cities. They tend to serve a variety of low cost meals, with a choice of la mian, 'dāo xīao mìan' (刀削麵, knife-sliced noodles) and perhaps Xi'an-style 'paomo' (泡饃, steamed bread). Noodles may be served with beef or mutton, either in soup or stir-fried. Many of these la mian restaurants are owned by Hui ethnic families from Northwestern China, (in Xinjiang they are known as laghman, لەڭمەن, in...
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