A bowl of steaming Huimian noodles 没啥是一碗郑州烩面解决不了的
On Oct. 1, tens of thousands of people gathered in Erqi Square to eat Zhengzhou Huimian noodles, celebrating the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, and this activity was live broadcasted by CCTV for 6 minutes.
中央电视台新闻频道曾用6分钟时间连线直播郑州“国庆吃面、国泰民安”新民俗活动。当时上万市民齐聚二七广场，同吃郑州烩面，为祖国贺寿。
Photo: Ma Jian
Zhengzhou, the capital of Henan Province, is backed by a large grain province and enjoys the reputation of "City of Quick-frozen Food" and "City of Huimian Noodles". For Chengdu people, hot pot can heal everything; while for Zhengzhou people, nothing can defeat us in the face of a bowl of Huimian noodles. Zhengzhou has at least 6,000 Huimian noodles restaurants offering different types of noodles, such as noodles in beef and mutton soup, noodles with special flavors such as curry and seafood, and Qiangguo noodles, of which the noodles in beef and mutton soup are always the mainstream.
作为河南省会的郑州，背靠粮食大省，享有“速冻食品之都”的美誉，也有“烩面之城”的称号。对成都人而言，没什么是一顿火锅解决不了的。但对郑州人而言，没什么是一碗烩面解决不了的。郑州的烩面馆子至少有6000家，烩面种类也极其丰富，牛羊肉烩面始终是主流，咖喱、海鲜等特色风味的也不在少数，还有炝锅烩面之类的后起之秀。
What should we eat in winter in Zhengzhou? A bowl of steaming Huimian noodles is undoubtedly the best choice.
冬季来郑州吃什么?烩面无疑是最好的选择，一碗热气腾腾的烩面，暖啊!
He's Huimian Noodles Restaurant
合记烩面
One of the three time-honored restaurants in Zhengzhou
“郑州老三记”之一
Photo: Ma Jian
Each city has an irreplaceable food symbol, such as Quanjude Roast Duck to Beijing, Cai-lin's Hot Dry Noodles to Wuhan, and Sun's Pita Bread Soaked in Lamb Soup to Xi'an... When it comes to Zhengzhou's time-honored restaurants, we have to mention Cai’s Steamed Jiaozi and Huntun, Ge's Braised Pancake and He's Huimian Noodles. He's Huimian Noodles has been specializing in noodles in mutton soup for 50 or 60 years, and has been famous throughout the country because of its honors such as "Chinese Famous Snack", "Henan Time-honored Brand" and "Zhengzhou Intangible Cultural Heritage".
每座城市都有自己无法替代的美食符号，比如北京全聚德烤鸭、武汉蔡林记热干面、西安老孙家羊肉泡馍……说起郑州的餐饮老字号，则少不了“老三记”：老蔡记蒸饺馄饨、葛记焖饼以及合记烩面。说起合记，“中华名小吃”“河南老字号”“郑州市非物质文化遗产”等殊荣让这个专做羊肉烩面五六十年的品牌享誉全国。
If you want to eat a bowl of authentic Zhengzhou Huimian noodles, He's Huimian Noodles is naturally the first choice. Fentiao (noodles made from bean or sweet potato starch), black fungus, brassica chinensis, bean curd skin, and large mutton slices are added in a bowl of Huimian noodles, appetizing. The soup is fragrant but not greasy. In addition, you can also add coriander and pickled sweet garlic as you like. Some people say that He's Huimian Noodles represents Zhengzhou flavor, a home-made flavor.
如果你想吃一碗原汁原味、地地道道的郑州烩面，合记自然是首选。粉条、木耳、小青菜、豆腐皮，加上大片的羊肉片，口味纯正，汤汁香而不腻，还有香菜、糖蒜等小份佐料可根据个人喜好自行添加。有人说，合记的烩面能吃出郑州味儿，那是家的味道。
Xiao's Huimian Noodles Restaurant
萧记烩面
Increasingly-international time-honored brand
国际范儿的老字号
Xiao's Huimian Noodles is also a time-honored restaurant in Zhengzhou, and its specialty is Sanxian Huimian noodles. The soup is made from tender meat, sheep bone and seven or eight traditional Chinese medicines. After long-time boiling, the soup is as white as milk, and added with squid, it will generate a hard-to-describe fragrance.
萧记是郑州的老字号，三鲜烩面是其招牌。萧记烩面的汤底很讲究，由嫩肉、羊骨加上七八味中药长时间熬制而成。汤白如牛乳，再配以鱿鱼提鲜，味道别致。
In 2015, Xiao's Huimian noodles were offered at the dinner of the 14th Meeting of the Council of Heads of Government of Member States of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, winning a lot of praises.
2015年，在上海合作组织成员国政府首脑(总理)理事会第十四次会议的晚宴上，这个行走在国际舞台上的郑州烩面老品牌，一亮相便得到诸多点赞。
Yufengyuan Huimian Noodles Restaurant
裕丰源烩面
Famous for nourishing soup
滋补汤底高大上
Yufengyuan Huimian Noodles is relatively high-profile because of its graceful decoration and various dishes. But the key factor is its broth containing more than 30 kinds of traditional Chinese medicines such as angelica sinensis and lycium chinensis, which can not only weaken the smell of mutton but also nourish the body.
裕丰源的烩面是比较高大上的，一方面，店内环境宽敞优雅，菜品丰富;另一方面，汤料考究，汤底内含当归、枸杞等30多味中药，喝起来既中和了羊肉的膻味，又能滋补养生。
The blue-and-white porcelain bowl vs. milky white soup, and the large piece of fresh lamb vs. thin and chewy noodles, Yufengyuan Huimian noodles can easily whet appetite and lead a person to endless aftertastes.
青花瓷的汤碗配上乳白色的浓汤，大块的鲜嫩羊肉配上轻薄而Q弹的面条，裕丰源烩面让人看着有食欲，吃着有回味。
76 Huimian Noodles Restaurant
76人老烩面
Visiting Henan with a pair of chopsticks
一筷子到河南
76 Huimian Noodles, as one of the "Top 100 Catering Enterprises in Henan Province in 2018", has often been designated as a catering supplier of Zhengzhou large-scale events in recent years, conquering the stomachs of countless players at home and abroad with a bowl of "Central Plains Flavor".
作为“2018年度河南省百强餐饮企业”的76人老烩面，近几年经常成为郑州大型赛事的指定餐饮供应商，用一碗“中原味道”征服了无数海内外选手的胃。
The bowl gets narrower from top to down, like a bucket; the soup shows white and yellow; the noodles are chewy. Though it looks plain outside, it has many ingredients inside, such as shredded kelp, bean curd, daylily, and Fentiao... What's more important is that 76 Huimian Noodles has launched ready-to-eat noodles and gift sets, allowing people to taste the home-made Huimian noodles anytime and anywhere, in spite of eating midnight snack due to overtime or going out for a trip, or sending to friends and relatives during the festivals. Perhaps that's why the package writes strikingly "Yi Kuai Zi Dao Henan" (visiting Henan with a pair of chopsticks).
上宽下窄的斗形烩面碗，汤色白里透黄，面条洁白筋道。一碗样式朴素的老烩面，轻轻一捞，海带丝、豆腐丝、黄花菜、粉条……真够丰富的。最关键的是，76人老烩面有方便装、礼品装，甭管是加班吃夜宵还是出门旅行，又或者过节送亲友，随时随地都能品尝到咱家乡的烩面。怪不得包装上醒目地写着：“一筷子到河南。”
Sichang Huimian Noodles Restaurant
四厂烩面
Yellow curry and fragrant sesame
咖喱黄，芝麻香
"Mianfang Road represents half of Zhengzhou history." In the 1980s, Mianfang Road witnessed the "golden age" of national cotton factories in Zhengzhou and the prosperity and development of Zhengzhou light industry, and also recorded the memories of the old Zhengzhou people on food. Sichang Huimian Noodles was established at that time, and its specialty is noodles with curry flavor, quite different from the mainstream Huimian noodles in Zhengzhou.
“一条棉纺路，半部郑州史。”上世纪80年代，那是郑州几大国棉厂的“黄金时代”，见证了郑州轻工业的繁荣与发展，也留下了老郑州人的美食记忆。四厂烩面，就是从那个年代诞生的，主打咖喱口味，成了郑州烩面的“另类门派”。
Some people say that Sichang Huimian noodles are heavily flavored. With "yellow curry" mixed in the soup, it tastes the fragrance of "sesame".
有人说四厂烩面属于重口味的浓香型烩面，端上桌满碗“咖喱黄”，吃起来满口“芝麻香”。
Zhang Lao Qiang Huimian Noodles Restaurant
张老炝烩面
一爆一炝加高汤
Quickly fried before adding broth
Zhang Lao Qiang's Qiangguo Huimian noodles were introduced to Zhengzhou in 2016 from Fangcheng County, Nanyang City, Henan Province. Its Qiangguo Huimian noodles not only inherit the essence of traditional Huimian noodles such as fresh and fragrant soup, soft and smooth noodles, fresh and green vegetables, but also make bold innovations, for example, the meat should be stir-fried to brown and the scallion should be fried to yellow before the broth is added, and fresh Chinese cabbages are finally added when the noodles are taken out of the pot. A bowl of Huimian noodles with fresh soup and chewy meat is thus completed.
张老炝的炝锅烩面，来自河南南阳的方城县，2016年才进入郑州。这种炝锅烩面，既继承了传统烩面汤要鲜香、面要软滑、菜要青翠等精髓，又大胆创新，强调“肉炒焦、葱炒黄，一爆一炝加高汤”，出锅时再加一把鲜嫩的小白菜，汤鲜面润肉劲道。
Relying on the perfect combination of inheritance and innovation, the new brand "Zhang Lao Qiang" also earns a place in Zhengzhou, a city of Huimian noodles.
传承与创新的完美结合，使“张老炝”这个新晋品牌在“烩面之城”郑州也能拥有大批忠实粉丝。
How delicious Zhengzhou Huimian noodles are!
郑州烩面，中!
