🍽️ Yan'an Mushroom Noodle

Hilly-town mushroom noodles.

Yan'an Mushroom Noodle is a flavorful noodle dish of Yan'an, Shaanxi, a northern-Shaanxi hill-town taste. Wide, thin hand-pulled noodles are served with a topping of shiitake mushrooms, sliced pork and daylily buds stir-fried into a fresh, thick gravy poured over the top. The noodles are broad, thin and springy; the mushrooms are richly fragrant and the broth savory and mellow, warming and filling in one bowl. On the Loess Plateau, Yan'an's hills yield mushrooms, so mushroom noodles are a common winter warming dish and guest food for locals. It prizes ample mushroom aroma and wide noodles, best eaten hot with broth and noodles together to capture the hearty, substantial hot-bowl taste of the northern Shaanxi plateau.