To name the dominator of Guilin snack, Guilin rice noodle shall be worthy of this name. Just by counting the history of it, you can get the answer. More than two thousand years ago, when Ling Canal was dredged, the Qin people from the north stationed troops in the South Ridges. For the northerners were not used to rice of the south. Some ancestors whose names we don¡¯t know thought out the way to grind rice into flour and make it into noodles. In this way, Guilin rice noodles appeared. For the South Ridges are damp, and Guangxi is rich in all kinds of spices, people learned to add the spices into the rice noodles and make a brine to go with it. Gradually, the traditional features of fragrance, freshness and deliciousness of Guilin rice noodles had come into being.  

Today¡¯s Guilin rice noodles have developed to the point with many varieties and perfect condiments. You can say that it has become a culture. This is a strange phenomenon which you can not see in other cities. Most people only choose one kind of food as their breakfast---rice noodles. There are many people who would feel something missing if they haven¡¯t eaten rice noodles for a couple of days. And all the tourists who have eaten Guilin rice noodles will not forget it.

From prophase preparation to seasoning before eating, Guilin rice noodles are very demanding in each procedure and process. Some processes relate to specific geographical factors, the seasoning of later period is especially so. It carries many mysterious traditional subjective colors and is really incredible!

   In prophase preparation, in the rice noodles factory, rice is ground into flour, steamed and made into long round lines. Finally, the workers coil it into a ball of 2 liang by hands, and the rice noodles will be packed into boxes and delivered from the factory. In making the rice noodles, the water quality of Guilin plays an important role. Facts have proved that only the water in Guilin can make rice noodles which are long, not breakable and elastic. If you make the noodles with the same process in other places, you can not get the desired results. It is really something miraculous. Today, with the production method of Guilin rice noodles factory which combines traditional process flow and modern technological fruits, in production of rice noodles, the smoothness, luster and rice fragrance have been merged into the rice noodles, which better suits the health needs of modern people. 

    The steamed fresh rice noodles are delivered to the rice noodle shops big or small in sizes at five or six o'clock in the morning. Before the guests eat them, the shop keep just heat it up in the boiling water and then filter the water dry and pour it into a bowl. Then add brine and condiments into it and shallot, garlic and pepper. In this way, a bowl of sweet-smelling and hot rice noodles is done. 

  Guilin rice noodles have a lot of varieties, among which the most typical is spiced noodles. Just as its name implies, it is a bowl of rice noodles with finely-made spiced meats, which generally are spiced beef or spiced pork. These spiced beef and noodles are spiced in that pot of most mysterious brine. In eating, slice the spiced meat regularly and put the slices on the boiled noodles. In this way, by adding the meat to the white noodles, and sprinkling shallot and pepper powder on it, the bowl of rice noodles is delicious and beautiful at the same time. The spiced rice noodles shall be blended and eaten and shall not be added with soup. In this eating method, you can experience the charm of pureness, deliciousness, freshness and fragrance of Guilin rice noodles. After eating the noodles, you can drink slowly the bone soup provided by the shop for free. Immediately, you will feel refreshing and vigorous in mind. Now, some shopkeepers even provide soybean milk for free. After you eat the rice noodles and drink the soybean milk, it is an excellent taste with the aromatic spiced noodles matched with the soybean milk with faint scent,   

   Usually, the rice noodles with sirloin are also very popular, which is a variety with aromatic and delicious stewed sirloin in soup with rice noodles. The sirloins are fine beef tendons and ox tripe, added with some spices and fried and then boiled, then stewed for several hours. The long rice noodles are soaked in the yellow soup of the sirloin. Eat soup with rice noodles. It can satisfy your craving for good food!

   In Guilin, rice noodles are not only snack, but also staple food and flavors. In a sweeping view of the rice noodles shops in town, each shop has its own style and taste. But ultimately which taste is good and which can absorb the customers depend on their techniques in making the brine. In making the brine, they generally choose the traditional spices, such as the tsaoko amomum fruit,   ginger, aniseed, fennel, etc. Some masters use a dozen spices, while others even use dozens of spices, each with their own points. In addition, there still used are ox bones or pig bones, Guilin Three-Dimple Spirit, fermented soybeans, mangosteen, crystal sugar, etc. It is the unique skill of each master as to how to make the wonderful brine with these raw materials. The assorted amount, the order of putting it into the pot, and control of fire, all these decide the taste of the brine made. But the successful brine is sure to be fragrant and delicious in taste. It will make the rice noodles aromatic and refreshing, with a lingering taste. After eating such rice noodles, you will feel refreshing and vigorous in mind, comfortable and smooth in stomach, and will not forget it for long.