Shaoyang Rice Noodles 邵阳米粉
Shaoyang Rice Noodles is featured among the local specialties of Hunan.
Shaoyang Rice Noodles (邵阳米粉) are the rice-noodle bowls of Shaoyang (邵阳) in Hunan. The Shaoyang city government's food page puts the noodle itself first: made the same day, springy and chewy, coarse in the mouth yet still smooth.
How it is made
The topping, called gaima (盖码), is not simply stir-fried. Red chillies are first cooked down in a wok of oil until the oil turns red, then the meat goes into that red oil and is simmered with it until the aroma is strong.
Once the noodles are cooked, no clear soup is added. The liquid poured over them is the original cooking juice of toppings such as tofu, pork intestine and beef, and the helping of topping is large.
Flavour and texture
The Shaoyang city government names the rice noodles of the Hui (回民) Muslim community as the most authentic Shaoyang Rice Noodles, and describes them as fragrant, oily and hot. It adds that the fiery bowl is so strongly local in character that it has never spread beyond Shaoyang, which leaves people from the city who live elsewhere missing it.
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Yueyang Rice Noodles 岳阳米粉 →
Another Hunan city's own rice-noodle bowl; set against Shaoyang's red-oil topping and topping-stock bowl it shows how the province's noodle bowls differ from city to city.
Sources & reading
Written from the linked sources and fact-checked against them on 2026-09-25. Recipes and servings vary between kitchens.
Image credits & notes (1)
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