Sihong Hollow Noodles are the special local products of Sihong County, Suqian City of Jiangsu Province. Sihong Hollow Noodles are nutritious food for all ages because they are fine but not greasy, of different varieties and different flavors, tasty and easy to digest.
Sihong Hollow Noodles are famous local products of Jiangsu Province with smooth and round appearance and silky holes inside. Pick up one at random and insert it into water, it will blow out strings of bubbles; light the bottom of noodles with match, blue smoke will appear from the upper end of the fine hole. Sihong Hollow Noodles originated in Shuanggou Ancient Town and was named ‘Shuanggou Hollow Noodles’.
It is said in Zhenghe years of Huizong period of Song Dynasty, Tianchang Champion Dai Nanfeng passed by Shuanggou when returning home to Beijing. After tasting Shuanggou Hollow Noodles, he appreciated them very much and wanted them specially made for the emperor. So he immediately discussed with the store owner. Used Huaihe speciality-Huaihe jade turtle to boil soup for three days and then took the undiluted liquid to knead dough.
At last hollow noodles were produced after elaborate processing and were dedicated to Zhao Ji, Emperor Huizong of Song Dynasty. Zhao Ji thought highly of them after eating. Since then, Shuanggou Hollow Noodles have been listed as tributes and have been in short supply for a period of time.
The special ingredients used by Sihong Hollow Noodles can be made into over ten refined varieties such as chicken noodles, shrimp seed noodles, egg noodles, jade turtle noodles, crab noodles and crab yellow noodles. These varieties have their own characteristics. The hollow noodles are nutritious food for all ages because they are fine but not greasy, of different varieties and different flavors, tasty and easy to digest.
