Although I feel that my noodles taste worse than theirs in the south, I still have to eat a bowl of noodles every day.
This feeling is the same as that of us southerners who eat rice every day. As long as you don't eat once a day, you will feel uncomfortable. The same is true for them. They always eat pasta once a day, otherwise they will feel that they have not had dinner.
This is a kind of eating habit there. Of course, the formation of a kind of eating habit is related to many factors and is precipitated by the long river of history.
In Shaanxi and Gansu, wheat is mainly grown. Unlike some places where rice is mainly grown, rice can be eaten every day.
Such a long-term historical background makes them spend a lot of time and energy to study how to make more and more delicious pasta. So, this forms a virtuous circle. Because pasta is delicious, more people like it.
Slowly, Shaanxi's pasta became famous, and people all over the country knew it. And although they eat noodles every day, they can do different things every day and will not repeat them for a week or two.
In their minds, eating noodles is relatively simple, especially when they are alone, eating a bowl of noodles is fast and simple. If you eat rice, you have to stir-fry and cook soup, which is very, very troublesome.
Moreover, cooking is greasy and pasta is light. In their minds, eating pasta in a long-term diet is healthier.
But this is also related to personal thoughts, and not everyone thinks so. Some friends from Shaanxi came to the south and fell in love with our cooking here.