For the people of Mao County, noodles are definitely not as delicious as bamboo tube rice; the people from Jiangnan Road and further south to Lingnan Road are not very interested in noodles.
For example, people in Chang'an eat dumplings made from wheat noodles during Chinese New Year's Eve or Winter Solstice, while people in Jiangnan Road and Lingnan Road prefer glutinous rice balls.
However, the center of royal power in the Great Tang has always been around Luoyang and Chang'an, which has led to historical records suggesting that Great Tang people all love noodles, seemingly excluding the South from the Great Tang.
This is similar to ancient and modern Spring Festival Galas. Every year's gala always treats Northern customs as national customs.
In the end, the host always says to let people nationwide eat dumplings, without even considering that people south of the Yangtze River eat glutinous rice balls during the New Year, not dumplings.
