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担担面 · Sichuan

Dan dan noodles

Wheat noodles with chili oil, Sichuan pepper, minced pork, and usually sesame.

Ingredients

  • Wheat noodles
  • Minced pork
  • Chili oil and Sichuan pepper
  • Sesame paste
  • Preserved vegetable, suimi yacai, and often a little vinegar

How it is cooked

  1. Pork is fried dry with yacai until it is crumbly and salty.
  2. The bowl is dressed with sesame paste, soy, vinegar, and chili oil.
  3. Noodles go on top and you mix.
  4. Peanuts are not in every old recipe and are in a great many restaurant bowls. Ask.

Taste

Salty, hot, numbing, and nutty from the sesame. A small bowl. It should not be a soup.

Possible allergens

  • Wheat in the noodles or wrappers, and often in soy sauce.
  • Sesame oil or sesame paste.
  • Soy sauce, which in China is often brewed with wheat.
  • Peanuts, in the classic version or as a garnish.
  • Pork.
  • A shared wok or a house chili oil can add peanut, sesame, or shellfish even when the recipe does not.