猫耳朵是一种古老的特色面食。其做法是：将和好的面擀到半厘米厚时切成指甲块大小的面块，用双手大拇指将面块捻成一个个形似猫耳的面点；倒入锅内煮熟后，将炒好的肉丁、豆腐、鸡蛋、西红柿、粉丝、香葱等十余种佐料烩入锅内；热腾腾的烩猫耳朵出锅了，鸡蛋的黄，香葱的绿，豆腐的白尽收眼底！筋、鲜、香，既实惠又解馋。除了烩，猫耳朵还可以炒和炸，各有其味。

　　As a kind of ancient wheaten food with special features, it is prepared like this: Well-blended dough, when rolled into 0.5-centimeter in thickness, is cut into many nail-sized dough pieces which are twisted by thumbs into wheaten food shaped like cat-ears. Boiled in a cooking-pot, they are braised with over ten sorts of ingredients such as fried diced-pork, bean-curd, eggs, tomatoes, fine vermicelli and Chinese onions, resulting in hot Maoerduo. Yellow eggs, green Chinese onions and white bean-curd are all in sight! Strongly pliable, delicious and savory, these dough pieces are both inexpensive and appetizing. Apart from being braised, Maoerduo can also be fried and quickly fried, respectively leading to different tastes.

　　曹建新 译