A contestant holds hand-made noodles during a contest in preparing food made with flour in Taiyuan, north China's Shanxi Province, October 15, 2007. Some 1,500 people from tens of province-widerestaurants participated in the contest. Shanxi Province has a recorded history of more than 2,000 years in making wheat flour food, due to bumper wheat harvests resulting partly from rich experience in cultivation. Local chefs make nice products to the amusement of diners. (Xinhua) |