Guilin rice noodle itself is thin and tasteless. One can smell the unique scent of high-quality fresh rice noodles. To make authentic Guilin rice noodles, a key material needed is the strong fragrant secret-made brine.

All rice noodles shops in Guilin have their unique skills in brine making, particularly the old brand shops among which have their secret recipe handed down from their ancestors, which are concentrated in the Guilin culture of different periods and the deposition of history.

 In the making of brine, we usually use licorice, cinnamon, fruit grass, cloves, dried tangerine peel, fennel, pepper, sand ginger, aniseed and other spices, as well as specialty of Yongfu County - mangosteen, also add the old and famous Guilin Three-Dimple Spirit and soy sauce. First fly the meat in the water such as pork with skin, pig bones, beef and pig stomach, liver and so on, and then cook them together in the water. At the beginning use quick and fierce fire, then use slow fire after boiling. Only after a long period of well cooked, can we make the brine fragrant, dense and have a sense of colloid. The new brine can not be immediately used, which should be blended with the old brine, and stewed with beef until there is no raw soy sauce flavor. The brine will be successfully done, which are fragrant, tasty, nutritious, no raw materials flavor when enjoy with the various spices together.

 In addition, in the stewing of brine, we are very particular about the use of fire. If we blindly use quick fire, the flavor of the spices will quickly evaporate. If blindly use slow fire, the flavor of the spices is difficult to come out. Just like making soy sauce, it is the key to control the fire level. Strong aromatic brine that is stewed carefully is white and smooth, mixed with the noodles, which is absolutely a delicacy in the world.

 The materials and recipe are various for every rice noodles shop, so the flavor of their noodles are also different. As the ancestral secret, for fear of affecting their business, and the most critical reason is afraid of losing his good fame, it is often not easily allowed outsiders to know the secret recipe. It can make no benefit by only selling brine. Now the secret is not kept so tight, maybe because many more young shopkeepers become the noodles owner and to some degree share their secrets together. There are also some market operators who develop packages of sauce brine, convenient for everyone but compared with the long-established brand rice noodles shops, that brine is simply not in a level, local people are not very interested in that, but very welcomed by tourists.