Lanzhou Beef Noodle Soup Recipe

Lanzhou Beef Noodle Soup or Lanzhou Beef Lamian is a type of a very spicy soup of sliced beef, radish, red chili oil and chewy hand-pulled wheat noodles. A dish that originated in Lanzhou, China this where it is known for the springy texture of the noodles used. It was said that during the old days in Gansu province noodles use certain kinds of ash to give that effect on the dough, due to the high alkali content of potassium carbonate present on the ash, it makes the noodles soft inhibiting the development of gluten (similar effect of lye water on rice cakes) Today there might be a different methods but they still achieve the same results, it is also retained its original characteristics of “1 clear, 2 white, 3 red, 4 green, 5 yellow”…