Anyone interested in Korean culture should know something about Yanji. It is a city located in Jilin province, very close to the border with North Korea, so the cold noodles in Yanji are as genuine as you're going to get in China.

Nowadays, cold noodles are well-known nationwide. The main ingredients are white flour, buckwheat flour, and starch. When you make cold noodles, put the flour that has been mixed into the special pot. Cook it and take it out of the pot and then cool it with the cold water. It is edible after adding the beef soup and chicken soup into it with pickles, peppers, beef slice, chicken meat bolus, apple slice, eggs etc.

Korean nationality used to eat cold noodles on the forth day of the first month of the lunar year. It is said that you will have a long life after you have the cold noodles at this day. Today, it is favored all year around.

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