Moganshan noodles: the four shops the Chinese record names

The English guides to Moganshan we checked send you to a hotel dining room and stop there. Few name a noodle shop. The Chinese record does. In 2024 the provincial tourism department’s media account and the county’s promotion account printed noodle shops at the foot of the mountain, with street numbers, and a restaurant listing adds a fourth. If you want a bowl of noodles on Moganshan without a booking, this is the list the written record supports. For everything else, see where to eat on Moganshan, village by village.

Moganshan (莫干山) is a bamboo mountain and former hill station in Deqing County (德清县), Huzhou (湖州), Zhejiang, about 60 km north of Hangzhou and 200 to 240 km from Shanghai. It is not Moganshan Road in Shanghai, the M50 art district, which owns the search results. Three of the four shops are in Yucun (庾村), the market town below the scenic area gate where the road up the mountain and the Chiang Kai shek path both begin.

Nobody from this site has eaten at any of them. What follows is what dated sources say. Most are promotion accounts run by government, and they get that weight: they tell you a shop exists and what it is known for, not that it is good.

Three of the four addresses, the Zhejiang culture and tourism department’s media account (诗画浙江游浙里) on Tencent News (腾讯新闻), 20 May 2024, tier 4, as published. https://news.qq.com/rain/a/20240520A00KC500

Why the answer is noodles, and why before noon

Start with the bowl the county eats. Dry tossed noodles (干挑面), also called lard noodles (猪油拌面), come with no soup. You lift and turn them with your chopsticks until the seasoning at the bottom coats every strand. In 2011 Deqing News called it the most ordered breakfast in Wukang, the county seat, and quoted a resident who reckoned eight breakfast shops in ten could make it properly.

Dry tossed noodles as Wukang’s most ordered breakfast, Deqing News (德清新闻网), 29 June 2011, tier 2. http://dqnews.zjol.com.cn/dqnews/system/2011/06/29/013927478.shtml

Yucun had its own claim. A 2018 account said that in 2011, before the street was rebuilt in a Republic era style, pig liver noodles were one of the town’s three treasures, with sesame cakes and cloth shoes. The same writer found Yucun silent by 21:00. Treat noodles as a morning and lunchtime meal, and settle dinner with your host.

Pig liver noodles among Yucun’s three treasures in 2011, and the town quiet by 21:00, The Paper (澎湃新闻), 湃客 contributor column, 9 October 2018, tier 3. https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_2502086

Moganshan noodles on Huangfu East Road

Xingxian Noodle Shop, at No. 15, is described first in both accounts, and Aqingsao against it. The county account calls it an old name everyone locally knows; the provincial one says it has been handed down for decades. Its signature, in both, is pig liver tossed noodles (猪肝拌面): liver sliced and blanched, laid on thin noodles with spring onion and celery, a house chilli sauce and broth. Beef and green pepper noodles are on the list too, the toppings fried to order.

Aqingsao Noodle House, at No. 9, is described by comparison. Same liver, stir fried (爆炒猪肝面), but in a heavier sauce, on alkaline noodles (碱面) with more bite. “For those who like it strong,” the county account says, “we recommend this one.” In May the provincial account reported spring bamboo shoot in the bowl. Beef noodles cover anyone who will not eat liver.

Both accounts place Aqingsao “opposite Moganshan station” (莫干山车站). Go by the street number. The old railway station once called Moganshan is in Wukang and is now Deqing West, as Deqing station: which exit, which taxi, which bus explains, and a shop on Huangfu East Road is not opposite it.

The county account came out of a vote. Its news app, 我德清 (My Deqing), asked readers for their favourite noodle shop in 2024, and the write up listed eight shops across Deqing, both of these among them, in no order. We don’t rank them either.

Eight shops from the app’s vote, in no order, with both Huangfu East Road addresses, Ai Deqing (爱德清), the county promotion account, on NetEase (网易), 2 September 2024, tier 4, as published. https://www.163.com/dy/article/JB3GJODL0514AIVC.html

The Anji chain on Yuxin North Street

Meixi (梅溪) is not a Moganshan name. It is a town in Anji County, next door, where the brand’s main branch is listed. The Moganshan branch is at 42 Yuxin North Street, in Yucun. Its listing names pig liver in sauce, braised spring bamboo shoot, dry tossed noodles and pork intestine. One review, dated 12 May 2026, calls it well known, with a queue at mealtimes.

That review is the most recent dated sign that any of the four is trading.

The Moganshan branch at 42 Yuxin North Street and its queue at mealtimes, Ctrip restaurant listing (携程美食林), review of 12 May 2026, tier 4, cited only as a listing, never for a price or hours. https://you.ctrip.com/food/1011/154234561.html

The one on the road in

Huiyi Noodle House is the outlier, and not in a village. The provincial account puts it beside the S304, the road to the mountain, opposite the Duihekou reservoir (对河口水库), “a little out of the way”. It gives no distance from Yucun. It recommends pig liver and pork chop noodles, three delicacies noodles (三鲜面) of shrimp, fish, greens, shredded pork and dried bamboo shoot, and dry tossed noodles with a fried egg, in portions it calls big enough for two.

Only that one account, of May 2024, names it, and nothing later confirms it is still trading.

What the record will not tell you

Three things a visitor wants to know, and the sources leave out.

Price. No source we can cite prints the price of a bowl at any of the four. The figures that circulate come from booking listings and unsigned guides, which we never quote for a price. Read the board on the wall, and see paying for things on Moganshan for how to pay a small sum.

Opening hours appear only on listings, so we print none; the dated record says breakfast and lunch, which means going before noon. Nor can we promise a shop is still open. The table gives each one’s last dated mention, and on the morning a recent review on a map app or on Dianping (大众点评), China’s restaurant review platform, settles it.

A name that misleads. A shop called Yucun Noodles may not be in Yucun. A Hangzhou subdistrict account reported that the son of the woman who opened what it calls the town’s first noodle shop, on Yucun square, now runs Yu Village Noodles (于村面馆) in Wukang, and since 1 April 2026 a Hangzhou branch, 庾村面馆·山河 (Yucun Noodles, Mountains and Rivers).

The Wukang shop, and the Hangzhou branch opened on 1 April 2026, the Shangtang subdistrict account (寻“糖”记) on Sohu (搜狐), 10 April 2026, tier 4, as published. https://www.sohu.com/a/1007541664_121123792

If you pass through Wukang

The county’s noodle street isn’t on the mountain. Baile Street (百乐街) in Wukang runs under 500 m and holds 10 to 20 noodle shops. Over May Day 2026 one, a fish noodle shop, sold more than 200 bowls a day, and a visitor from Shanghai told the reporter he had spent half a day in Yucun, then come down for Wukang’s mutton noodles. Arriving late, or leaving by Wukang? Eat there.

Baile Street under 500 m with 10 to 20 noodle shops, and more than 200 bowls a day at one over May Day, China News Service (中国新闻网), 6 May 2026, tier 2. https://www.zj.chinanews.com.cn/jzkzj/2026-05-06/detail-ihfefuir8009492.shtml

Last checked 4 November 2026 by Liyan Ye. Prices, timetables and entry rules on this mountain move without notice, so confirm anything you are booking around.

Photographs on this site are representative illustrations, not documentary images of the specific building, property or service described.