Mantou and wheat noodles are the mainstay of the Northern Chinese diet (as compared to rice in the southern Chinese provinces). It is made with milled wheat flour has a soft and fluffy texture. Mantou is very similar to white bread and is typically eaten by dipping into condensed milk. Both steamed and deep-fried mantou are available in many Chinese resturants although the former seems to be more popular.

Mantou is also a common diet in Japan, Korea, Mongolia, Turkey, Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Simple ingredients, easy to cook and healthy to eat. As to taste, it all boils down to the sauce.

Add some red pepper flakes and grated Parmesan to taste.

fn¹ “tomato sauce” tends to be a confusing term. It may mean very different things depending on where you are in. It generally means tomato ketchup in Britian, Ireland, India, Australia and New Zealand. In North America, “tomato sauce” refers to “marinara sauce” - a simple quickly-made tomato sauce for pasta without meat. But in Italy, marinara sauce actually refers to seafood sauces for pasta, risotto, or pizza (with or without tomato sauce).

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