Shanxi is so Pasta-stic! Part II: Dragon Beard Noodles
If pull 7 times, by arithmetical calculation, the extended dough gets to 512 lengths of noodle. At this stage, it has come to what we all known as simply as na-mian(拉麵).
If pull 9 times however, which requires distinctive techniques and deftness, it gets to 2048 lengths (the one you see here is the young provincial pasta champion ﹣﹣ national champion can double it to 4096 blindfolded). At this stage, extraordinary achieved, without any pasta machine, nor a fraction of any angel hair pasta attachment. It transcends to "dragon beard noodles (龍鬚麵)," a term lesser-known outside China, a legacy that investitured by an Emperor centuries ago for its comparability to the long beard of a gliding oriental dragon.
[Foodporn caveat: if you're the kind of foodies who tends to have some jaw-sagging moments whenever you see your hometown conceited pizza boy whirling his flabby pizza dough in mid air, if you fall to that type, this video will probably give you rounds of
orgasmgastronomic comma in its piffling 4 minutes run time...So hardcore, so frontal and so outrageous that I personally vouch it'd be one of the most X-rated (x1000) foodage you've ever seen.
Nay. Seriously, just wanna share some fine Chinese culinary art with you]
