Cold Sesame Noodles

冷面 Lěng Miàn

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    2

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
House of Nanking: Family Recipes from San Francisco's Favorite Chinese Restaurant

By Kathy Fang and Peter Fang

Published 2025

  • About

PETER: I consider cold sesame noodles a common folk food in Shanghai. It’s easy to make, affordable, and accessible to all. In Shanghai there was one spot that always had the longest line. I would often wait in that infamous line, but I didn’t mind it because I loved watching the man, maybe he was the owner, build a noodle plate for each customer. He had a really good system and never seemed rushed or off his rhythm, no matter how crazy the line was or how impatient his cus