Old cold noodle dish becomes hot new favorite

XI'AN－In a factory workshop, cold noodles and seasonings are packed into bags on an assembly line in preparation for delivery to dinner tables across the country and the world.

These cold noodles, called ganmianpi in Chinese, are a specialty of Baoji, a city in Northwest China's Shaanxi province.

Xu Lu, office director of the Baoji Shangrun Food Company, said they receive more than 500 orders a day via e-commerce platforms, with each order averaging seven bags of noodles.