Zizhong Rabbit Noodles 资中兔子面

Zizhong Rabbit Noodles (资中兔子面) are a longstanding breakfast food in Zizhong (资中). A bowl brings together springy noodles, aromatic rabbit-meat topping and bone-stock soup, with red, white and green colours.

Stock and seasonings

The bone-stock base is seasoned with soy sauce, vinegar, Sichuan pepper powder, cooked chilli oil, sesame, ginger juice, scallions, garlic and yellow chives. The rabbit topping is tender without falling apart, while the noodles retain a pleasantly firm bite.

Breakfast and remembered flavour

A familiar local order asks for rabbit noodles with plenty of broth and extra scallions. Shops represented by Xiaodong Shiqi (小东十七) have operated locally for several decades. The local media feature describes the dish’s precise beginning as unrecorded, but it has accompanied successive generations of Zizhong breakfast eaters.