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“Flat rice noodles in a vegetable broth, fried peanuts, Sichuan pepper oil, and the local heat of zhe'ergen.”
What the real thing tastes like
Juanfen (pinyin: juǎnfěn) is a type of flat rice noodle in China. It is made from ordinary non-glutinous rice. Pictured left is a bowl of juǎnfěn (卷粉) as served 2015-12-01 in Guangnan, Wenshan, Yunnan, China. In addition to a vegetable broth and the noodles themselves, ingredients include lettuce, thinly cut tomato slices, fried peanuts, spring onion, zhe'ergen (a spicy local rhizome), chilli, powdered white pepper, garlic, soy sauce, powdered Sichuan pepper, and Sichuan pepper oil. The location, external seating on stools around a low table at the roadside, is typical of the region and food.
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Juanfen is a flat rice noodle that arrives as a study in texture and heat—the noodles themselves mild and yielding, but the bowl around them alive with sharp angles. In Yunnan's roadside stalls, it comes swimming in vegetable broth with lettuce, tomato, fried peanuts, and a calculated burn from chili, Sichuan pepper, and the region's own zhe'ergen rhizome. This is food built to be eaten on a stool at a low table, meant for quick, absorbed attention.
Order it here when it has
- textural variety with fried peanuts
- built-in complexity from multiple peppers and spices
- made from simple rice
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