Dandan Noodles

An earthy, spicy dish, which is typical of Sichaun street food. The noodles used locally are often the hand-drawn kind, made on the spot; after a dramatic performance of ‘dancing’ and twisting, the well-beaten flour-and-water dough is split, as if miraculously, into several hundreds of strands. These hand-drawn noodles, flat and ribbon-shaped, are available dried in plastic bags in Chinese and Oriental stores, but although the Chinese characters tell you they are hand-drawn, the English lab