Talk:Lamian

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It is not mentioned in this article that creating a single long pasta noodle from a lump of dough is a VERY difficult thing to do, and that the kneading process for doing this is largely secret. This is why you cant find authentic la mian anywhere except large metro areas, and there are many immitations.

Learning how to make la mian is an extremely refined and very difficult process. The most similar thing in western culture is throwing pizza dough - and that can take a lifetime to master. Making la mian is even harder. If you are trying to make a pizza crust, anyone can eventually get something circular and flat, even if the dough doesnt have the right consistency. But getting a lump of dough into a long thin strand of noodle which doesnt stick to itself requires far more training, and gives a unique texture to the noodle itself. The dough is well known to achieve a distinct molecular structure which is not achieved otherwise, giving it the strength to be stretched to such long lengths without breaking and getting stuck to itself again.

This fact is completely overlooked by the current article, especially with respect to the difficulty of achieving la mian - People who know how to make it are no simple pasta throwers. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 156.145.28.102  (talk • contribs) 22:55, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

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Is it from northern or northwestern China? Is it made from wheat flour? Badagnani 05:57, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
 * yeah, is it gluten? Inquiring minds (Celiac disease) want to know. 67.170.212.250 22:15, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

Any idea why Lagman redirects here? Although perhaps related, they seem like distinct foods. Cskotte (talk) 18:07, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

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what the heck is this????
Does this article even NEED an islamic category tag?

I believe it shouldn't seeing as how Islam didnt exist when lamian was being made.

I contest the category tag and any relevance to Islam be removed for posterity sake of the article. Murakumo-Elite (talk) 08:38, 8 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Well, whatever the history is, these days any town in China would have a "Langzhou Beef Lamian" place with a halal (qingzheng) sign on it, so at least in China lamian is associated with the local Muslim (Hui) cuisine... Vmenkov (talk) 11:19, 5 January 2009 (UTC)


 * In any case, the traditional root shall be upheld. Murakumo-Elite (talk) 08:38, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

Space in article title
Why is this titled "la mian" and not "lamian"? As it is a single word, proper Hanyu pinyin rules dictate that it should be written without a space. As far as I know, no form of this word could be considered a proper loan word in English, so there is no reason to use the current nonstandard spelling. -Amake (talk) 13:55, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

dubious image


I find it highly dubious that this is an image of lamian. Exploring the category lamian on Wikimedia Commons, I have reason to suspects that the uploader didn't spot really obvious signs that certain images of noodles does not depict lamian (which makes this image even more dubious). For example:


 * Introduction of an error at, corrected at.
 * Another introduction of an error at, corrected at.

--Cold Season (talk) 17:57, 6 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Does the uploader, Wykymania, know about this?--Quisqualis (talk) 23:52, 9 March 2019 (UTC)