thin hand-cut noodles made with duck egg yolks, a western sichuan specialty. [ chef speaking chinese ] >> fuchsia: okay. [ chef speaking chinese ] >> fuchsia: okay. so he's saying, um, first have a smell of this and then a taste of the broth. >> anthony: oh, that's beautiful. >> fuchsia: and just gently press the noodles and then lift them up and eat them. >> eric: yeah, very refined. >> fuchsia: you know, some of these dishes, the character is very similar to what you'd get on the street, but it's just done so beautifully. >> anthony: well, we were talking the other day that so many of the dishes we were eating in the restaurant started out, these were not invented by chefs, or even cooks, they were invented by farmers, uh, and hungry people. i mean, that's the, certainly