Dan Dan Noodles, aka Dan Dan Mian, is a kind of Chengdu food popular not only in the city, but also throughout China. The chewy noodles with cooked minced pork, chopped shallots and crushed peanuts on the top, is so tasty that would whet your appetite absolutely. It was originally sold by the venders who wander about streets and alleys with a shoulder pole, and in Chinese a shoulder pole is called Dan, that’s how the name of the noodles came from. Now the restaurants and snack bars selling Dan Dan Noodles could be easily found here and there in Chengdu.