Description
The staple soup eaten by Northwest Chinese Muslims (Hui and Uyghur) on freezing winter mornings and festivals. A premium, cloudy broth boiled for hours from mutton bones and meat is loaded with wildly chewy 'extra-thick glass noodles' (Fen Tiao) made from sweet potato starch, sliced mutton, and radish. Warms you to the core.
Restaurants serving Yang Rou Fen Tang (Mutton and Glass Noodle Soup)
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Recipe
Ingredients
- Mutton bone broth
- Extra-thick sweet potato noodles
- Mutton
- Radish
- Coriander
- White pepper
- Sichuan pepper
Instructions
- [Authentic Recipe]
- (Premium Broth) Purge mutton bones in cold water, then boil aggressively in a massive pot, skimming scum perfectly. Add scallion, ginger, Sichuan pepper, and black cardamom. Boil heavily for hours until the broth turns milky white.
- (Glass Noodles) Boil 'extra-thick sweet potato glass noodles (Hong Shu Fen Tiao)', which resist turning mushy, until the core vanishes.
- (Finish) Transfer the mutton broth to a pot and add the softened thick noodles.
- Add sliced boiled mutton, sweet winter radish, wood ears, and tofu.
- Season purely with salt and white pepper (DO NOT add soy sauce; maintain the white color).
- Once the noodles absorb the mutton soup to their limit, plate and garnish heavily with cilantro and scallions. Drizzle with 'lamb fat chili oil' if desired.
Learn more Spice, substitutes, tips
Key spices
Sharp aroma of white pepper and profound depth of mutton broth、羊骨スープの濃厚なコク
Substitutes at Japanese supermarkets
(Boil Korean Dangmyeon in lamb broth)
Pairing
You Xiang (Fried bread) / Kao Rou(Skewers)
Trivia
[Trivia] 'Fen Tang' means glass noodle soup. On the morning of Eid (ending Ramadan), after praying at the mosque, families gather and this 'Yang Rou Fen Tang' is the very first thing they eat. It holds a deeply sacred and heartwarming significance.
Eating tips & etiquette
[Unique Eating] Drink the soup with a spoon while slurping the ultra-thick noodles with chopsticks. The sweet potato noodles possess a violent chew and absorb the lamb fat and umami like a sponge. Tearing 'You Xiang' (fried bread) into this soup is the most classic Hui Muslim feast.
Allergen
Mutton