Chinese Street Food DAN DAN NOODLE Tour in Sichuan, China | INSANELY GOOD and SPICY Szechuan Noodles
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One of the best Chinese street foods you will ever eat in China is the Dan Dan Noodles! Check out for 3 months free w/ 1 year pack and 49% OFF! Spicy Chinese Dan Dan noodles are the best street food in China! If you love spicy Sichuan food and street food in China, then you're going to love Dan Dan noodles, because they are so flavorful and covered in a rich chili oil!
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In this Chinese street food video, we're bringing you on a full on Dan Dan noodle tour of Chengdu, China, DEEP in the heart of Sichuan in Southwest China. This is the land of delicious and spicy Sichuan cuisine, sometimes spelled Szechuan cuisine. There are so many famous Sichuan foods to try here in Chengdu, but today, we are trying 4 different variations of Dan Dan noodles, also sometimes called Zajiang noodles.
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China has so many amazing street foods to try, and I've been filming and documenting them for you for the past 4 years. In my opinion, the best noodle dish in China is dan dan noodles, right here in Chengdu, Sichuan. China has some of the best street food around the world, and these dan dan noodles were INSANELY GOOD, some of the best noodles in China for sure!
If you're traveling to China to eat and try different street foods, and perhaps want to learn a little bit about Chinese food and chinese cooking in the process, you need to try a few different variations of Dan Dan noodles. When they prepare the traditional Chinese dan dan noodle recipe right on the street, you can watch as they scoop the main ingredients like chili oil, soy sauce, sichuan peppercorn, and garlic right into the noodle bowl and then place the steaming hot noodles right over top. It's truly satisfying! After they put the noodles over top, they place their signature fried ground pork on top, known in Chinese as shaozi.
When your dan dan noodles arrive to your table, it is very important to mix up all the chili oil and all of the ingredients throughout. This ensures that the flavour and the hot oil gets coated onto each noodle before you take a bite. It's also quite satisfying mixing the noodles and watching the dark red oil slowly turn each noodle from white into red and silky smooth.
When you take your first bite, you'll understand why this is one of the BEST Chinese street foods you need to try. The spicy noodles are coated with an incredibly aromatic chili oil and really send you straight up to heaven! It's one of the best forms of Chinese cooking!
If you are traveling to china and want to find these famous Dan dan noodles, here are the addresses:
1) Dawanmian, AKA big noodle bowl:
Restaurant name: 大碗面店
Address: 成都市过街楼街26-6号
2) Deep alleyway dan dan noodles:
Restaurant name: 十五栋面店
Address: 成都市西体路7号
3) Street side dan dan noodles in the north of Chengdu:
Address: 成都市星辉中路城隍庙街城隍面馆
My neighbourhood noodle joint outside of Chengdu, China
4)Restaurant name: 恋味老面馆
Address: 成都市龙泉驿区龙平路427号
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My name is Trevor James and I'm a hungry traveler and Mandarin learner that's currently living in Chengdu, Szechuan, China, eating up as much delicious .
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Easy Chinese Spicy Noodles (Dan Dan Noodles!)
A Chinese ground pork noodle dish with a spicy kick! This dan dan noodles recipe is made with ground pork and thin noodles coated in a spicy sauce that is loaded with Sichuan flavors, perfect for spicy noodle lovers. Chinese noodle dish with a spicy kick!
CHAPTERS:
0:00 Easy Chinese Spicy Noodles
0:14 Pork Prep
1:08 Garlic, Ginger, and Greens
2:02 Noodles
2:30 Making the Sauce
4:28 Background
4:43 Heat Factor
5:17 Adding Noodles
6:15 Vegetable Options
6:42 Done!
7:05 Taste Test
THINGS YOU’LL NEED:
1 tablespoon vegetable oil peanut oil is great
12 ounces ground pork
Salt and pepper to taste
3 garlic cloves chopped
2 tablespoons fresh chopped ginger peeled
1/3 cup Sui Mi Ya Cai Sichuan Preserved Mustard Greens - use Kimchi as a substitute, or omit if desired
2/3 cup chicken broth
3 tablespoons chili oil
2 tablespoons dark soy sauce
1 tablespoon rice vinegar
1 teaspoon sesame oil
2 tablespoons sesame paste tahini
1 teaspoon 5 spice powder or more to taste
1 teaspoon Sichuan peppercorns coarsely ground
8 ounces Dan Dan noodles boiled per packaging instructions - or use wheat noodles or egg noodles
For Serving: Sesame seeds, spicy red pepper flakes, chopped green onion, chopped roasted peanuts
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Dan Dan Noodles - How to Make Authentic, Street Food style Dandan Noodles (担担面)
Dan Dan Noodles - always a favorite. It's a simple dish, but how could you go wrong with fresh noodles, a pork and yacai topping sitting in a pool of a spicy, chili oil based sauce?
The first step in a great Dan Dan noodle is a quality homemade chili oil. We want the Sichuan version here - so be sure to check out our video on how to make that red oil.
As always, here's the detailed written recipe over in /r/cooking. If you're coming from the future, note that we did this recipe together with the Chili Oil recipe:
Lastly, a huge thank you to Trevor James, a.k.a. the Food Ranger. Because we live in Shenzhen, we didn't exactly have any Chengdu street food B-Roll handy. He was nice enough to give us permission to use some of his clips, so check out the whole video of his Chengdu street food tour: (the Dan Dan Noodles are at 12:28) In his videos they go to some of the tastiest restaurants/stalls in China, so give his channel a look if you like food/travel shows.
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How to Make Dan Dan Mian with Jet Tila | Ready Jet Cook | Food Network
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Dan Dan Mian
RECIPE COURTESY OF JET TILA
Level: Easy
Total: 25 min
Active: 15 min
Yield: 4 servings
Ingredients
Sauce:
4 tablespoons (60 milliliters) Chinese sweet soy sauce
4 tablespoons (60 milliliters) Chinese light soy sauce
1 to 2 tablespoons (15 to 30 milliliters) sambal chile sauce
2 teaspoons (10 milliliters) Chinese black vinegar
1/2 teaspoon Sichuan peppercorn powder
1 tablespoon (15 milliliters) tahini
Noodles:
2 tablespoons (30 milliliters) vegetable oil
2 tablespoons (30 grams) fresh ginger, thin sliced
2 tablespoons (30 grams) garlic, minced
1 pound (500 grams) ground pork
4 tablespoons (60 grams) Tianjin preserved vegetable, rinsed
3 tablespoons (45 milliliters) sherry
1 cup baby spinach
3 scallions, green parts only, thinly sliced
8 ounces (500 grams) Chinese dry wheat noodles
Directions
For the sauce: Combine all sauce ingredients in a small bowl and reserve.
Boil 3 quarts of water in a 6-quart pot. Cook the noodles for about 10 minutes or until al dente, rinse and drain well in a colander. Place the noodles in a large serving bowl.
Heat the vegetable oil in a wok over high heat. When you see wisps of white smoke, add the garlic and ginger. Add the pork, breaking it up and tossing for 2 to 3 minutes until brown and almost cooked through. Add the preserved vegetable to the wok and stir-fry for 30 seconds. Deglaze the pan with sherry and add baby spinach, cooking until wilted. Then add the reserved sauce. Stir-fry folding constantly for 1 more minute or until pork is fully cooked.
Pour the meat sauce over the noodles and top with scallions and Sichuan peppercorn powder.
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Dan Dan Noodles | Kenji's Cooking Show
There are a million versions of Dan Dan Noodles, the one dish you should eat if you want to understand the ma-la (numbing-hot) flavor profile. I have four or five recipes for them myself, like this one:
Or this one:
Or this one:
Or even this one:
I do not follow any of these recipes - or any recipe at all - when I'm making them at home.
In the short time I spent in Chengdu, I found that dan dan noodles are to Sichuan what the hamburger is to the U.S.: They're ubiquitous, there are certain expectations, but there are no hard and fast rules other than the main ingredients (noodles, chili oil, Sichuan peppercorns, and vinegar) and the manner in which they're served (fast and cheap). Beyond that they can be soupy or not, they may or may not have sesame or peanuts, they might have greens, or not. Sometimes they have raw garlic or even a sprinkle of sugar on top, etc etc.
In other words, get the chili oil and Sichuan peppercorn bit right, and the rest is really up to you.
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