Yellow soybean paste is used most notably in the noodle dish called "zhajiang mian" ("fried sauce noodles"), in which the yellow soybean paste is fried together with ground pork, then poured over the top of thick wheat flour noodles.
Yellow soybean paste is used most notably in the noodle dish called "zhajiang mian", although outside Beijing, sweet bean sauce or hoisin sauce is often used as a substitute. In this dish, the yellow soybean paste is fried together with ground pork, then poured over the top of thick wheat flour noodles.