The Legend of Quanzhou Red Oil Rice Noodles

Quanzhou is a good place, with not only Xiangshan Temple, one of the two ancient temples in Guangxi, but also Shi Tao, a master of Chinese painting, who serves as a link between the past and the future. Jiang Yun and Jiang Yan, from Quanzhou in the Ming Dynasty, were the prime ministers of Nanjing and Beijing. Food also includes the well-known flower fish and vinegar-blood duck. There are also peppers, old garlic and meat in Quanzhou, and Jiang Ye is world-famous. It is precisely because of the "Three Spicy Seasons in Quanzhou" that the famous Quanzhou Red Oil Rice Noodle was born.

Quanzhou has simple folk customs, and Quanzhou people honor their parents at home and serve the country abroad. According to legend, Quanzhou has a filial son, Tang Guozhong. In order to honor his old mother, he has done his filial piety 24 times. One winter, his old mother was ill. She couldn't eat or drink. She was so anxious that Tang Guozhong was on pins and needles. Thinking of the red sister-in-law who had been filial to her husband, she also quickly burned incense and prayed for the help of sister Chang 'e.

When Chang 'e received the incense from Tang Guozhong, she was naturally moved. She thinks Quanzhou is colder in winter than Guilin. After careful consideration, she taught Tang Guozhong to cook a bowl of rice noodles for her old mother, which is the famous Quanzhou red oil rice noodles.

The so-called red oil is to choose big red pepper, first boil it with clear water, remove seeds, then add a proper amount of salt, and pour it into a stone mill with the water for boiling pepper to grind it into fine slurry. Then take a proper amount of peanut oil and heat it in a pot (500g of fine Chili sauce and 200g of peanut oil), pour in the fine Chili sauce and keep stirring until the Chili sauce doesn't touch the spatula and turns into red oil. Mix rice noodles with red oil, refreshing and appetizing, and keep out the cold. Tang Guozhong's old mother ate it three times, and she recovered, so she was no longer afraid of the cold. Quanzhou red oil rice noodles have become a famous snack in Quanzhou.