Wanzhou Minced Meat Sauce Noodles 万州杂酱面
Wanzhou Minced Meat Sauce Noodles is featured among the local specialties of Chongqing.
Wanzhou Minced Meat Sauce Noodles (万州杂酱面) take their local character from Wanzhou broad-bean paste, local soy sauce and specially prepared red chilli oil. The sauce brings together chilli heat, a numbing edge and savoury saltiness, with a lighter fragrance running through it.
Several kinds of topping
Pork and beef versions both belong to the tradition. Other choices include dry noodles, noodles with broth, and a pea-and-meat-sauce combination.
A noodle shop from Shanxi
The Wanzhou Intangible Cultural Heritage Centre traces the tradition to Li Zhengtang (李正堂), who moved from Qixian (祁县), Shanxi (山西), to Wanzhou (万州) in the late Qing period and opened Shanxi Lao Mianguan (山西老面馆). Successive generations adapted his noodle-making skills to Sichuan tastes. Later, successor Li Qinggang (李庆刚) worked with investor Hu Yingchao (胡应超) and a development team to turn the shop-made noodles into a commercial product.
Sources & reading
Written from the linked sources and checked sentence by sentence against quoted extracts by a separate reviewer on 2026-09-26. Recipes and servings vary between kitchens.