People say that Changsha is a busy city.For local people,the day often starts with a bowl of rice noodles.
Chen Xueyi,48,owns his restaurant for 27 years.The restaurant is small,but it's famous for its delicious rice noodles.Chen starts working at 4 a.m.every day and stays busy until the evening—making soup,preparing toppings (浇头),and cooking rice noodles.
To make delicious rice noodles,Chen uses pork bones to make the soup.Later,he puts spring onions,salt,soy sauce (酱油) and meat on rice noodles.If you like,you can also ask for green beans and chilies (辣椒) in the rice noodles.
The tasty dish brings in a large number of people every day.Now,Chen sells three to four hundred bowls of rice noodles a day.As well as local people,travelers now come to his restaurant too."I'm happy to have more guests (客人),but I am too busy now,so it would be good to keep it a small restaurant," Chen said with a big smile.
"To make nice rice noodles,everything needs to be fresh,but the most important is that you have to put your heart into it," said Chen.