/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Xi'an: I found this to actually be the hardest to decide on. Obviously, I should do noodles, because hey, that's one of the major foods that was brought back from China. But as I researched what noodle dishes they made back then, at the end of the Silk Road, there was basically two choices. Qishan noodles, which is a noodle soup, and I honestly didn't think that would show very well; or Cold Noodles, which back then was cold noodles with cabbage, sesame, and few other ingredients, except for maybe mutton. (yes, mutton was popular everywhere.) Also, when I read through some of Marco Polo's accounts, there were specific mentions of cold noodle dishes, so I decided to run with it, but I dressed mine up more than they did back then.