Mandarin Duck Noodles

( chinadaily.com.cn )

Updated: 2014-03-04

Residents of Pingnan county first started to make Mandarin Duck Noodles, also known as Kuzhui Noodles, at the end of the Tang Dynasty (618-907). The dish includes dried and cooked hawthorn which is cut into strips. From the end of the Tang Dynasty to the 1980s, people in Pingnan county survived almost entirely on Kuzhui Noodles, but they now eat it as part of a more varied diet.

Mandarin Duck Noodles [Photo from Pingnan county government]

Kuzhui Noodle, rich in amino acid, iron, zinc and other trace elements, is often prepared with pork – which has transformed it into a more expensive delicacy.

As Kuzhui Noodles is the specialty of the county that is famous for its mandarin ducks, the dish is now referred to as Mandarin Duck Noodles.

Edited by Wang Yifei and Niva Whyman