Actor Shao Feng is eating Hui noodles in Gongyi, Henan, and casually remarks:

"Forty years ago, this bowl of noodles only cost two mao."

As he finishes speaking, the scene instantly falls silent.
The smile on the shop owner's face stiffens, thinking he might complain that it's too expensive now, and quickly prepares to explain.

Unexpectedly, Shao Feng shifts his tone, pointing at the bowl filled with meat and side dishes:
Back then, there were no such things, it was just plain boiled noodles with a pinch of salt, enough to fill the stomach and be content.
Looking at it now, slow-simmered lamb bone broth, tender and flavorful stewed meat, seven or eight side dishes all prepared, the taste and sincerity—unimaginable in the past.

Actually, what has never increased is not the price of a bowl of Hui noodles,
but the confidence of ordinary people to steadily improve their lives;
what they are eating is not just a nostalgic flavor,
but the better era, a tangible happiness etched on the taste buds.