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What you need
Flour
Salt
Vegetable oil
Garlic
Spring onions
Sichuan pepper
Chilli flakes
Soy sauce
Chinese black vinegar
MAKING noodles by hand is an art, practised most spectacularly by chefs in China who pull, twist and stretch a single piece of dough into hundreds of strands as diners watch. It takes years to master this, but some types of noodle are pretty easy and fun to make at home. One is biang biang noodles, which originated in Shaanxi province in central China.
Hand-pulled noodles are testament to the stretchy and springy properties of gluten, a mix of two groups…
