CC-CEDICT identifies 拉面, lā miàn, as pulled noodles.
What the reference establishes#
The dictionary identifies the food term. It does not prove a particular cook’s technique, recipe, speed or strand count. Repeated doubling is a mathematical model, not evidence that a chef produces 16,384 intact, uniform noodles. Different noodle-dish names should not be presented as interchangeable examples of hand-pulled preparation.
Questions to use in practice#
Ask whether the noodles are pulled by hand at the venue and what the dough and broth contain. If watching a demonstration, describe only the steps you actually observe. Keep a dish’s sauce or broth separate from its noodle-making method, and confirm dietary requirements with the kitchen rather than inferring them from the name.
Scope and source#
The questions are newly written editorial guidance. This article is not a personal visit report, a complete recipe, a dietary certification or a verified biography.
Lexical sense adapted from CC-CEDICT contributors, distributed by MDBG, retrieved 23 October 2026, under CC BY-SA 4.0. The selected gloss is abridged and numbered pinyin converted to tone marks.