Wenzhou Snacks：Stir-Fried Rice Noodles (Chao Fen Gan)

2026/08/17 Source: 66wz.com

Ou Cuisine is built on seafood, light oil, delicate thickening, and meticulous knife work. These ten signature dishes showcase its culinary mastery — pounded fish consommé, scallion-oil croaker, mud crab with egg white — and ten more snacks embody its vibrant street culture, from fish balls that are decidedly not round to the bowl of glutinous rice the city wakes up to.

Stir-Fried Rice Noodles (Chao Fen Gan). This dish is all about "wok hei" — known in the Wenzhou dialect as "the breath of the fire." Fine rice noodles are soaked, drained, and tossed over high heat with pork shreds, egg, dried shrimp, and cabbage. The pan must sizzle loudly as the noodles are tossed; that sound is the ultimate test of authenticity. It often arrives before the main courses at gatherings to take the edge off guests' hunger.

Served as: main staple, late night.