Crossing the Bridge Noodles

Name: Crossing the Bridge Noodles
Yield: 3 servings
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 1.5 litres very hot, rich chicken and pork bone broth; 300g fresh round rice noodles (mixian); Very thinly sliced raw chicken, pork and fish; 2 quail eggs; Chinese greens, bean sprouts and chives; Sliced mushrooms and tofu skin

过桥米线/gwaw chyow mee shyen/

Also known as: Guoqiao Mixian, Over the Bridge Rice Noodles, Yunnan Crossing the Bridge Noodles

About this dish

A bowl of piping hot chicken broth served with plates of raw meat, quail egg, vegetables and rice noodles that you add at the table to cook in the broth.

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Ingredients

🍲1.5 litres very hot, rich chicken and pork bone broth

🍜300g fresh round rice noodles (mixian)

🍗Very thinly sliced raw chicken, pork and fish

🥚2 quail eggs

🥬Chinese greens, bean sprouts and chives

🍄Sliced mushrooms and tofu skin

Method

Serves 3

Bring the broth to a rolling boil and pour into a large preheated bowl.

At the table, first slide in the thinly sliced raw meat and fish so they cook in the hot broth.

Crack in the quail eggs.

Add the vegetables, mushrooms and tofu skin.

Finally add the rice noodles, season and eat at once.

✓ What Makes it Authentic

Guoqiao mixian is the signature dish of Mengzi and Kunming in Yunnan; legend says a wife kept her husband's soup hot under a layer of fat as she crossed a bridge to bring it to him.

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