"Noodle making is a dying art form; chefs who can properly make a bowl of mian stand out. The classification of Chinese noodles, a Northern China (bei fang 北方) specialty, gets complicated. Handmade can mean a lot of things: hand-kneaded, hand-pulled, hand-torn or knife-cut. The knife-cut variety (dao xiao mian 刀削面） originates from Shanxi, and is made by shaving off a kneaded piece of dough with a small blade. The hand-pulled version (la mian 拉面) is a Lanzhou delicacy and is crafted by repeatedly stretching the dough. Noodles need to be kneaded for long periods of time to get a chewy consistency." - Andrew C (✓) from Bookmarklet

Those all look sooo good. Get in mah belleh. - Laura Norvig from iPod

This made me think of They Call Me Bruce. - Rodfather

Maybe I've never had a great batch, but I love the showmanship of hand-pulled noodles or knife-cut noodles more than the actual taste. - Andrew C (✓)

Yeah. I was thinking of this scene http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Rodfather