Noodle specialty dishes:
- Hokkien (Fujian) ban mian, hand-rolled egg noodles served in sesame butter sauce and soup, sometimes w/ fried anchovies.
- Traditional Sichuan dan dan mian: Consists of a spicy sauce containing preserved vegetables, chili oil, Sichuan peppers, pork, and scallions served over noodles.
- Re gan mian: breakfast fare from Hubei province. Hand-pulled wheat-based noodles over which a mixture of soy sauce, sesame paste, pickled vegetables, chopped garlic chives, and rice vinegar is poured.
- And many peoples' favorite, zhajiang mian (more info), a Beijing-style dish with thick wheat noodles and a mixture of ground pork stir-fried with fermented soybean paste.
