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Black bean paste and noodles
BEIJING — Kang, our young Chinese friend, had done his research. He was joining us for lunch and a multihour visit to the Temple of Heaven, an exquisitely beautiful site that played an important role for hundreds of years as the place where the emperor prayed annually for good harvests.
Kang, a student at Beijing University, had read about Zha Jiang Mian, a famous noodle house that is more than 100 years old and is not far from the east gate of the temple. So we headed there for a lunch of noodles. The bowl of noodles arrived with julienned vegetables on top and a small bowl of black bean-and-pork sauce on the side. We followed Kang’s lead and dumped the black bean paste over the noodles, took a few noodles to swab the inside of the sauce bowl and then mixed the noodles and the savory, slightly sour sauce. It was delicious.
This place would definitely be on my list for a repeat visit if I had more time in Beijing.
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By Danny Zhang
July 3, 2008 5:01 AM | Link to this
I do enjoy the noddle too, that was great. It is a traditional Chinese noddle, and the restraunt is very old and famous. Meanwhile, it is very cheap.