What's the secret of beef noodles (Lanzhou Lamian Noodles)?

The most unknown inside story of Lamian Noodles in Lanzhou is that Lamian Noodles in Lanzhou has nothing to do with Lanzhou. There are only beef noodles in Lanzhou. People in Lanzhou call them beef noodles or beef bowls, and restaurants also call them beef noodles (restaurants). In Gansu, except Lanzhou, other areas are basically called * * * beef noodles (restaurants), which is a brand. But out of Gansu, they are all called Lanzhou Ramen Restaurant, and most of them have nothing to do with Lanzhou, that is, what everyone said above is basically opened by Qinghai people under the guise of Lanzhou people. Lanzhou beef noodles were invented by Ma Baozi, a Hui nationality, because Lanzhou is a city inhabited by ethnic minorities, and there are a large number of Hui people besides the Han nationality. Lanzhou people like to eat pasta, while Hui people eat beef and mutton. Therefore, after many attempts and generations of inheritance, the raw materials and technology of beef noodles were basically finalized in Ma Jiesan, the grandson of Ma Baozi. At first, Muslims liked mutton instead of beef, but quite a few people didn't like mutton because of its smell. Moreover, the mutton is too tender and the meat is too broken to form easily. Moreover, sheep are too small in size and low in meat yield, so they are not suitable for being used as ingredients in the public diet. Finally decided to abandon "sheep" and use "cattle". So it wasn't Comrade @ Zhao who said, "Lanzhou Lamian Noodles was not invented by Lanzhou people, but the car beef noodle soup in Huaiqing Prefecture, Henan Province. At that time, the famous spy Ma passed by here and found that this noodle was suitable for monitoring the distribution of points in various places, so he brought it back to Lanzhou and carefully developed it. Today, it has become the largest gang in the wall and even in the village. " During the processing of Lanzhou beef noodles in Lamian Noodles, an additive must be used to improve the toughness and elasticity of the noodles. In the early days, it was baked in Cao Peng. Nowadays, Lamian Noodles is mostly used as a food additive, just like milk is a normal food. It's not as horrible as the rumors in the Jianghu, except that Sanlu milk makes the baby kidney calculi. Lanzhou people have been eating beef noodles for decades, and I have been eating beef noodles for more than 20 years. I have never heard of an accident because of eating beef noodles. Even in Peng Hui's time, in the absence of scientific experiments to prove that Peng Hui is toxic and nontoxic, Lanzhou people have been mice for decades, not because Lanzhou people are stupid, but because this food was left over by our ancestors and has been used for hundreds of years. There are many beef noodle brands in Lanzhou, and the competition is encouraging. The two most famous leading companies are "Mazilu" and "Jinding", among which Jinding started to develop as an enterprise at the end of last century and opened stores in major cities in China. However, Jinding beef noodles is a high-end diet outside Lanzhou, and its price is 10 times and 100 times lower than that in Lanzhou, and Jinding in Lanzhou is basically the only designated place for national leaders to eat beef in Lanzhou. Although "Mazilu" is a state-owned store, it has always shown the trend of family development, so it has done little in outward expansion. Other famous brands include Bao Guo and Wu Muller, a family-owned restaurant with amazing single-store income and many die-hard fans, as well as the new corps of regional franchise chain brands that have risen in the past decade, such as Master Huang, and. Although these brands are not as representative as Mazilu and Jinding, their income and passenger flow are not lower than them. In this case, is it true that "Lanzhou Lamian Noodles is the only spy organization that can judge the opening time by touch, and under normal circumstances, the opening time is directly proportional to the thickness of the desktop oil stain"? "Mazilu" and "Jinding" can be said to be the two most representative brands of Lanzhou beef shopping, but their business methods and habits are completely different, even contradictory. Jinding, as an enterprise, has been operating for a long time, and its mode of operation is close to that of a modern catering enterprise. Although Mazilu is state-owned, it has always operated as a family unit like an ordinary beef noodle restaurant, which is even more thorough and stubborn than other stores. Friends who have been to Lanzhou to eat beef noodles know that Lanzhou beef noodles are semi-self-help. Customers buy tickets at the front desk, and then pay tickets in front of the window in the operation room, reporting requirements, such as the thickness of noodles, the number of peppers, the number of onions, the number of garlic sprouts, or I often say that I don't want coriander (I am allergic to coriander, but most Lanzhou beef noodles take the initiative to put coriander). There is a classic joke: Customer: Boss, put two pieces in a small bowl, with more Chili meat and more garlic noodles. Boss: Brother, don't you want a big bowl? . In the process of development, Jinding gave up this semi-self-help form and replaced it with a waiter to deliver food. After ordering, it's a great relief for people like me who don't like waiting in line for anything (friends who are waiting in line with Wumule in Mazilu should know the pain), but it leads to the price of Jinding being much higher than other beef noodle shops outside. Even in Lanzhou, Jinding is a high-end consumer brand in beef noodles. Mazilu developed this semi-self-help to the extreme. A major store in Mazilu is near Lanzhou Railway Station. Because of his Jianghu status and large passenger flow, Mazilu's semi-self-help sometimes turns you into a full self-help, and the waiters in it are arrogant, regardless of your requirements. The following master will occasionally tell you the thickness of noodles. Don't expect to change them for you. People will say, "You run amok, you run amok to make the master in line behind you." Of course, this only happens occasionally, but it is this extreme operation mode that people are still alive and well. In Lanzhou, the brand is still supporting the "Jinding".