Xialin Noodle House

* Original front
* "XGM" front

**Xialin Noodle House** (Chinese: 夏林面馆 *Xiàlín Miànguǎn*) is the original restaurant co-founded by Lin Zhen and Yu Xia, after they graduated college.

## Overview

The original name of the restaurant, Xialin Noodle House, is a combination of Yu Xia (予夏) and Lin Zhen (林贞) 's names. Yu Xia was the one who originally suggested the name when they were still in university. Lin Zhen worked there as the head chef while Yu Xia was the manager of the store.

When Yu Xia rebrands the store into a food chain, she renames it XGM, with the full name being 小干妈 (*Xiǎo Gānmā*), which is a play on the famous chilli oil brand 老干妈 (*Lǎo Gānmā*).

After leaving XGM, Lin Zhen returned to her rural hometown and opened a new noodle restaurant on her own much like the original, once again naming it Xialin Noodle House.

## Description

### Original Design

The original design of the noodle house seems to be a plain off white one story building. The facade has 2 big square windows on each side of a double paneled green wooden door. A light green sign made up of 4 panels with the name of the shop is hanging on a downwards angle above the door. There are 2 rows of large brownish bricks surrounding the base of the building up to hip height, and thinner bricks going over the door entrance.
Xialin Noodle House’s building seems to be split into 5 distinct areas: The eating area and the kitchen take up the same main room separated by some glass panels. Throughout the episode 3 more plain dark wooden doors are visible. One in the kitchen, one by the fridge and ac unit and one door that may or may not be by the bench hugging the right wall of the building, since it is not visible in every frame of that angle, possibly an oversight. Those doors may lead to some back rooms, storage rooms, or a bathroom.

The main eating area has an off white wallpaper and simple wooden flooring and is separated into 3 distinct rows of seating arrangements, parallel to each other. Going from right to left; the right row is 2 kitchen tables with 2 seats on one side and a large bech taking up the whole entrance wall of the room. The middle one consists of 2 large bar tables with 4 or more high stool chairs on each side, and the left row is a lower long table against the wall with off white circular hourglass shaped stools. The final row sees outside the window
On the far side of the room on the left of the kitchen area we can see side to side a tall commercial fridge containing various beverages and an air conditioning unit, with a small microwave and small potted plant on top of them respectively.

The kitchen of Xialin Noodle House is pretty simplistic, with small green square tiles on the wall and larger ones on the floor. It is separated from the eating area with ceiling height glass panels that start from the top of the counters, with a large gap similar to a bar. A small wooden hinged board acts as the entrance to the kitchen.
Inside the kitchen there are counters, tables and other shelving units and appliances hugging the walls of the whole room. The stove is on top of a counter overlooking the main sitting area and across it is a large white fridge.

### XGM

The rebranded XGM seems to be in the same building, however 10 years later many drastic changes and renovations have taken place, making both the inside and outside of the store have a completely different, more professional and colder atmosphere.

In the facade of the store the 2 rows of brown tiles have been replaced by similar blue/green ones that continue to go to the top of the wall above the door, which is now a double transparent glass door. The simple board sign has been replaced by an underlined XGM light up sign, with 2 more signs visible from the front of the noodle house, a red sign depicting a bowl of noodles and some writing right above the main XGM sign and one on the side of the building protruding towards the road.

We can briefly see another room that may either be a part of the old main sitting area of the shop or one of the chain restaurants, where there is a large gray couch going along the wall in front of a wide window with some orange lettering on the outside, where Yu Xia is seen taste testing new flavours of noodles.

## Affiliation

There are only 2 named characters affiliated with Xialin Noodle house. After the 10 year timeskip the restaurant is staffed by a larger number of cooks and waiters, that are not however named.

* Lin Zhen - Co-founder, Head chef (former)
* Yu Xia - Co-founder, manager (former)

## Gallery

Xialin Noodle House kitchenOriginal front of Xialin Noodle HouseXialin main room 1Xialin main room 2Rebranded "XGM" front