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Biang Biang Noodles, with Chili oil topping (油泼面)

Biang Biang noodles are an awesome handmade noodle from Xian thatve seemed to finally cross the Pacific. Sometimes called...

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Xi’an Biang Biang noodles

FAQ

According to a China Daily article, the word biang is an onomatopoeia that actually refers to the sound made by the chef when he creates the noodles by pulling the dough and slapping it on the table.
1. Huáng – Unknown meaning (172 strokes) Huáng, with its incredible 172 strokes, is generally regarded as Chinese writing's most fiendishly difficult character. The character however is shrouded in mystery, as scholars have tried to determine both its source and meaning.
biang. With between 56 and 62 different strokes, biang is an atypical character, comically considered by the Internet as the most “Chinese” out of over 50,000 Chinese characters due to its combination of many pre-existing traditional characters.);})();(function(){window.jsl.dh(xoS8ZuqhLtqO5OUPl_-Z0A4__51,
biáng. The most complex character, biáng (above), is made up of 57 strokes. This character occurs in the written form of biángbiáng miàn, or biangbiang noodles, a dish of wide, flat noodles popular in the Chinese province of Shaanxi.);})();(function(){window.jsl.dh(xoS8ZuqhLtqO5OUPl_-Z0A4__58,
English : The Chinese character zhé (U+2A6A5), meaning verbose. With its sixty-four strokes, it is one of the most complex ideographs (along with 𠔻), composed with four copies of the same base ideograph. It fell from use around the fifth century AD.