Disappearing Chengdu Cuisine: Copper Well Lane Plain Noodles
Long shopping trips in shoes tire one out, and a group of three aunts, six stepmothers, and stepmothers arrived in a line.
They most enjoy hand-pulled sweet noodles, chewing and setting up seats right on the street.
This is a poem written by poet He Yunuo, 'Bamboo Branch Lyrics of Jinchang,' which records the situation of Chengdu people eating noodles. The noodles eaten here are Copper Well Lane plain noodles and sweet noodles.
The author He Yunuo provides the following description of the noodles in this shop:
The alley is located at the east entrance of Wangjiabajian Street, and within the alley there is a plain noodle shop (in the local dialect, a noodle without meat sauce is called 'plain noodles,' and if it has meat sauce, it is called 'meat noodles,' noodles with soup are called 'soup noodles,' plain noodles with seasoning are called 'seasoned noodles').
The seasoning uses refined soy sauce, top-grade East Mountain peppercorns ('two jin tiao'), sesame oil, and sesame paste. When the pot is started, six or seven stems of peas are boiled into the noodles, with red and green colors, which can be very appetizing. They also pull 'sweet noodles', which are about the thickness of chopsticks, with seasoning using sweet 'red sauce', with a lot of sesame paste, because the noodles are relatively thick and tough, they are very chewy. At that time, the local women, or aunts and stepmothers, or stepmothers, came together to visit and shop after shopping and visiting, and often frequented this shop.
This noodle shop is not very large, and there are many diners, so there was a scene of 'chewing and sitting on the street'
Eating a bowl of plain noodles in Copper Well Lane is a great pleasure for many diners. I've heard many old Chengdu people reminisce about eating noodles at Copper Well Lane, sometimes going through half the city to eat a bowl of noodles, which is a wonderful story.
