Gao Yi's hometown now sells this kind of marinated beef noodles, but back when Gao Yi was there, he didn't like them.
The restaurants offered plenty of these noodle dishes with meat, mainly consisting of marinated beef, along with some diced potatoes and the like. However, meat that was marinated the day before and sold the next day never seemed like proper marinated meat noodles to Gao Yi.
He didn't care for it at home, but after being away for a couple of years, he started to miss it. So when Gao Yi returned, he wanted to eat a bowl of marinated beef noodles, but it had to be the noodles of his memory, the kind his own family made, the kind you could only get in the countryside, not the type sold in restaurants.
So what Gao Yi missed wasn't just a bowl of noodles; it was his childhood, his memories.
