Breakfast in Wuhan is not only convenient and time-saving, but also rich in patterns, with both North and South flavors. There are fried dough sticks, noodle nests, roasted plums, baozi, bean skin and Regan Noodles, as well as beef noodles, miscellaneous sauce noodles, shredded beans, jiaozi and glutinous rice balls, which are dry and thin. They are delicious when they are hot. Regan Noodles is one of the traditional snacks in Wuhan, with delicious taste and unique flavor, and it is the first choice food for Wuhan people prematurely. It, fried noodles and rice cakes form a series of Wuhan-style snacks, which are famous all over the country and have been enduring for decades. Twenty years ago, it was a bowl of "twenty-two food stamps and a dime". Now you only need a few dollars to fill your stomach comfortably. At present, the food stalls in three towns in Wuhan mainly sell Regan Noodles. The "Cai Lin Ji" in Hankou is a century-old shop in Regan Noodles. Now Cai Linji Regan Noodles Strip Company has opened more than 300 chain stores in three towns of Wuhan, and its business is booming. Regan Noodles in Wuhan, Daoxiao Noodles in Shanxi, Yifufian in Guangdong and Guangxi, Dandan Noodles in Sichuan and Zhajiang in the north are also called the five famous faces of China.
When it comes to Regan Noodles in Wuhan, most people in Wuhan know the "Cai Lin Ji" Regan Noodles store on Jianghan Road, which is the most authentic Regan Noodles in Wuhan. In fact, regarding the origin of Regan Noodles, the real inventor was Li Bao, a cooked food vendor. Li Bao's name is unknown, but he was named after a sarcoma on his neck. He lived in the shack area of Guandi Temple at Qiaokou in the early 1930s, and for many years he lived in poverty by carrying the burden and shaking the rattle on Hanzheng Street and Chang Di Street. One night in the dog days, he came home exhausted with unsalable noodles. Because he was worried that the leftover noodles would turn sour after a night, he cooked them all and hung them on the chopping board. Unexpectedly, he accidentally knocked over the oil pan and spilled all the fragrant sesame oil on the noodles. Li Bao was heartbroken and regretted it, so he had to mix the cooked noodles with spilled oil and let it cool, hoping to sell some money and save some money the next day.
Early the next morning, Li Bao quickly picked up these noodles and took to the streets. Blanch it with boiling water, dry it and sell it with seasoning. Customers see that this noodle soup is different from the usual noodle soup, and it is dry and delicious. I bought a bowl of yours to "taste the new" and ate it with relish. When someone asked about the name of this noodle, Li Bao, who had difficulties, casually replied: "This is the' Regan Noodles' sand that I specially made according to your taste. It is warm and there is no soup!" As a result, Regan Noodles began to spread around Hanzheng Street and was liked by more and more customers. Li Bao saw that Regan Noodles's sales were much more attractive than bean jelly noodle soup, so he began to specialize in it. Later, with wine or mung bean porridge, the business became more and more prosperous. Li Bao's fame went out of Hanzheng Street, extended to Hankou and Jianghan District, and then spread to three towns in Wuhan. Regan Noodles has also been imitated by many vendors, and has gradually become a favorite breakfast for Wuhan citizens.
In the late 1930s, a Regan Noodles Pavilion with a sign of "Cai" was finally built at the intersection. Cai continues to inherit and improve Regan Noodles's production technology. According to customers' tastes, sesame sauce, pepper, pickles, shrimp skin and other condiments are added to golden, oily, delicate and flexible Regan Noodles, and sesame oil or Chili oil is mixed. Regan Noodles is so delicious that Xian Yi is suitable for all ages and has become a good breakfast for the people in the three towns, and its reputation has spread all over the world. As for the relationship with Cai, history cannot be verified. However, before Cai became famous, it should be an indisputable fact that Regan Noodles was first created and Regan Noodles prevailed in Hanzheng Street.
Regan Noodles has gradually become a part of Wuhan culture. As long as we study Wuhan's culture, it is almost impossible to get rid of Regan Noodles's entanglement. Chi Li, a writer from Wuhan, introduced Regan Noodles in detail in the book Old Wuhan, and Fang Fang, another writer from Wuhan, also wrote a lot about Regan Noodles. On the most prosperous commercial pedestrian street in Wuhan, there is such a bronze statue: an old father, with a towel on his shoulder and a bamboo grate in his hand, is concentrating on cooking noodles. This is the most popular statue on the pedestrian street, and countless Wuhan citizens take pictures around it every day. Then one day, Wuhan people got up early in the morning and found that the bamboo fence in the statue's hand was gone. Wuhan people were anxious and looked around, and the media joined in. Later, early in the morning, Wuhan people woke up and found that the bamboo fence had magically returned. It seems that thieves can't bear to eat without Regan Noodles!