This Chinese Noodle Dish Is as Popular as 'Ramen in Tokyo or Pasta in Italy'

This Chinese Noodle Dish Is as Popular as 'Ramen in Tokyo or Pasta in Italy'

The noodle is on China’s National Intangible Cultural Heritage list.Sharon McDonnellMeet the “First Noodle of China,” as the China Cuisine Association dubbed it in 1999: Lanzhou beef noodles. It’s startling to see sculptures of a noodle bowl, a chef hand-pulling noodles, and people slurping them in front of the Lanzhou Beef Noodle Museum and its restaurant in this city in Gansu province, once an outpost on the fabled Silk Road. (The city’s also …