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  • Vic.

  • Strips of dough pulled toe, arm's length slapped down on the counter and continuous rhythm.

  • Lam tossed in the walk, cooked until tender, mixed with a fiery blend of sauce and spice.

  • But it's the signature homemade chili oil clinging perfectly to these hand pulled noodles that makes the spicy human lamb noodles.

  • A legend in New York.

  • Head to New York and you'll find several Chinese noodle shops dotted across the city.

  • But the wide hand rip noodles from the shop celebrated by Anthony Bourdain.

  • This place is unbelievable.

  • This place is great.

  • Come from here now.

  • This is the central kitchen, where the popular spicy human land plate is made from scratch.

  • Spicy cumin lamb is a dish that's pretty commonly found in most of mainland China, like northern parts, especially.

  • But to put the lamb along with our wide noodles were the first to do that.

  • Is that because you guys like noodles or you felt like New York would respond to the noodles with the lamb way?

  • Were like, All right, something human, something lamb.

  • Let's make this dish so that this is my favorite right?

  • And then the noodles is my father's favorite because he just He's a noodle person.

  • He's not that much into rice.

  • So that's how it came to be.

  • The noodles start out like this, a simple dough mixture made with flour, water and a little bit of salt.

  • And then how long can that's it before your you have to pull way?

  • Rubio Togo Bank, Which I'll see you on that.

  • How can I just like like another meal you with?

  • So David recommends letting it sit for 10 minutes.

  • But if you ask Jason that's in 20 minutes of rest.

  • Why don't you take it out?

  • I'm pretty consistent.

  • He changes his mind all the time.

  • He's like, Ah, year ago.

  • Ah, year ago.

  • He will have standards like these on and then yesterday he would be like I want to change the waits for this and the but one part of the process never changes the noodle pull.

  • Each portion is pulled toe order.

  • If they're pulled early and set aside, the noodles will lack their signature chewiness.

  • How do you know when you pulled far enough?

  • Ideally, 5 ft s, but I just go by a Z.

  • That's about there you go.

  • That's about right.

  • That's a reference.

  • After they're stretched, Jason strips each noodle down the middle and throws it into boiling water way.

  • Find one new is better because it just carries the flavor a little bit better.

  • The noodles is always perfect.

  • They wider, but they tender nice and tender.

  • While the protein may not be the star, the most popular dish as she and famous foods simply wouldn't be the same without it.

  • To make the lamb, Jason and his father set aside seven ingredients.

  • This young people just a slit.

  • Uh huh.

  • There's a large or gun just a year, just a young Kim Jinjiang tunes hole.

  • Poor Peter and Paul David turns the walk up to full blast, adding in the lamb first and flipping it almost continuously.

  • You'll see them doing a combination that any idea is just to keep the meat from sticking to the size, because that means it's first thing David tosses in the rest of the ingredients and a spoonful of the restaurants.

  • Chili oil, which famously flew off the shelves after The New York Times recommended it to readers in May with a proprietary blend of 30 spices.

  • That's where the signature flavor and heat in this dish really come through the lamb sliced thin so that each piece really absorbs all that cumin and chili and spice.

  • Yeah, Sounds good, right?

  • You wanna try right now.

  • Are the O e o casually.

  • Oh, you got it?

  • Yeah, I'm all right.

  • No pressure, just in case.

  • Gotten so flavorful.

  • No, really.

  • I thought it was gonna be so spicy in your face.

  • Like very approach.

  • Very virtual the flavor profile of Shan Xi.

  • Xi'an cuisine is not Thio.

  • Burn your mouth off.

  • That's not the gulf.

  • It's a fragrant spices.

  • Shangla, you know.

  • So you have all the fragrances, you have some spice.

  • A lot of it looks intimidating because it's really red.

  • But that's, you know, part of the presentation of the dish.

  • But when we actually eat it, you know it's not.

  • It's not that I know.

  • It's very fragrant.

  • That's like the perfect word to describe that before the lamb and noodles combined.

  • Jason, add some more veggies, a spoonful of noodle sauce and more chili oil.

  • She is actually a very historical city in China.

  • The Silk Road actually starts in China, ends up somewhere in the Middle East, so There's a lot of folks going around.

  • A lot of culture, from different parts of Asia and beyond come into the city.

  • So that's how it has affected our food.

  • You know, it's very cosmopolitan of flavors, even though it's still concerned.

  • Chinese food, of course.

  • But you know, thousands of years of history has made it into somewhat of the unique cuisine.

  • What was once a tiny flushing restaurant has turned into 10 locations across New York City.

  • And as the restaurant grew, so did its loyal band of customers.

  • When we find it was open here we come in, like, 23 times a week.

  • We've been going on website to see, like the ingredients, like make our own like home made e didn't get Thio.

  • Then they came out with cookbook.

  • Oh, I already got the cookbook.

  • Yeah, that's the work right around the corner, and our back door is today Backdoor.

  • How often do you come four times a week?

  • Things is the most vitamin D.

  • I've gotten in, like five months.

  • Okay, it's a mhm Hold the chili flakes.

  • They're putting my lips.

  • Oh my God.

  • I'm like, pleasantly surprised at how it's not too spicy.

  • Jason has this like sign in the restaurant that basically says You shouldn't order something not spicy because their dishes air made and curated in a way where recipe is valued in the spices kind of essential.

  • That's the flavor you're ordering this dish for.

  • And then, just honestly, the added perks are tender lamb that's just beautifully marinated and delicious and honestly addicting chewiness to the noodles.

  • Look at the way it's coded.

  • You wouldn't get the flavor.

  • And the impact of this sauce without the noodle like the noodle is there to accompany that sauce.

  • And like you, you just carries that flavor throughout this whole dish.

  • It's just like a nice, fiery nous.

  • It's really, really good.

  • It's a reason to come to New York.

  • Oh, yeah, sure who was worth the stuff?

  • Yes, try it.

  • You will not regret it.

  • As an Asian kid.

  • You know how these kids you're you're not supposed to go into restaurants, but I don't regret that at all.

  • You know, after 10 years of being the business, I feel like it was the right decision.

  • It's not just about financial reward, it's about making impact.

  • It is about people recognizing what we're doing as a way of, you know, spreading our culture.

  • That actually is worth more than anything else.

  • That makes it better.

  • Needle here, you're dead.

  • He's not here to witness The way we see it, I think we make the same quality of noodles.

  • I think my father would say he will always make fire noodles.

  • But you know, you could say that I believe in my own abilities.

Vic.

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