Pingnan - Mandarin Duck Noodles

I was intrgued by the name. It is not noodles with duck soup.

I was brought up in Sibu, far away from Minqing, Fujian, where my ancestors came from. And we do not have mandarin duck noodles in Sibu.
Mandarin Duck Noodles  is produced in Pingnan County. The noodles are made from hawthorn fruits. The fruits are slightly astringent taste, taste delicious, cool detoxification, contains amino acids necessary for a lot of iron, calcium, and the human body, regular consumption of arteriosclerosis, reduce cholesterol, anti-aging and other significant effects. There is a way to process hawthorns to make flour and then this brown noodle. This noodle has kept many Pingnan people alive during the years of famine since the Tang Dynasty.
Hawthorn tea is lovely.

It is also known as Kuzhui Noodles, at the end of the Tang Dynasty (618-907). The dish includes dried and cooked hawthorn which is cut into strips. From the end of the Tang Dynasty to the 1980s, people in Pingnan county survived almost entirely on Kuzhui Noodles, but they now eat it as part of a more varied diet.Kuzhui Noodle, rich in amino acid, iron, zinc and other trace elements, is often prepared with pork – which has transformed it into a more expensive delicacy.

As Kuzhui Noodles is the specialty of the county that is famous for its mandarin ducks, the dish is now referred to as Mandarin Duck Noodles.