🍽️ Laoyou Rice Noodle

Noodles cooked with sour bamboo shoots and fermented beans, sour and spicy.

Laoyou rice noodles are the signature noodle soup of Nanning, Guangxi. Sour bamboo shoots, fermented black beans, garlic and chilies are first stir-fried until aromatic in the wok, then bone broth is poured in and flat rice noodles added. The reddish broth layers sour, spicy, salty and umami, with the bright tang of bamboo shoots and the depth of beans standing out, bright and appetite-opening. The wok-fire stir-fry is the soul; the noodles soak up the gravy and slip down smooth. Eaten for breakfast or late-night snack, a bowl leaves a light sweat on the brow, and is a daily comfort of Nanning locals, especially refreshing in summer heat.