Yunnan Cross Bridge Rice Noodle

With its dainty ingredients, delicate cooking skill and special eating method, the Cross Bridge Rice Noodle has been one of distinctively local snacks in Yunnan for more than 100 years. It is said that Yunnan Cross Bridge Rice Noodle originated with a beautiful and charming story.

Cross-bridge rice noodles were originated in Mengzi County. It is spread that there's an affectionate couple in this county and they loved each other very much. For a better life by getting the first place in the national exam, the husband lived alone on a small island for concentrating on his examination. His wife sent food to her husband every day. However, for the long distance, the delicious food got cold as she reached the destination. In order to ensure her husband to eat warm& sweet and delicious meals, the wife attempted to use different methods to keep the meal warm. And finally, she found a special way to make sure her husband can eat fresh and hot meals: she firstly prepared a pot of soup covered with some butter on the surface; and put some fresh meat , vegetable and some other ingredients aside in the basket. When she arrived at the island where her husband studied, the soup was still very hot. She firstly put the ingredient into the soup, and then those meat and vegetable. In this way, the husband could eat fresh food each meal. In the end, the husband succeeded, and he owed his success to the special meals created by his virtuous wife.

Profited from this beautiful story and with the improvement and innovation of modern cooks, Yunnan Cross Bridge Rice Noodle becomes more and more famous in China and overseas; moreover, it has become a symbol of Yunnan cuisine.
The Cross Bridge Rice Noodle consists of soup, pieces of meat, noodles, vegetable and ingredients. Before the meal, a bowl of hot soup, a bowl of rice noodles, some slices of meat, fresh vegetable slices and some other ingredients are to be prepared. The soup is the most important, which is boiled from chicken, duck and pig bones. To ensure fresh ingredients are well cooked in the soup, the huge bowl of soup is full of hot liquid although there is no steam flowing from it. It is worth mentioning that please remember to put the meat first, then the egg, then the vegetables, and lastly the noodles. After this, the ingredients are immersed in the hot tailor-made soup for two minutes.

You can taste the Cross Bridge Rice Noodle and the prices range from RMB 12 to RMB 60 according to their main ingredient.