Kuo Yuan-yuan, owner of a Hsinchu rice-noodle firm, describes how rice noodles came to the city: "Around 100 years ago a noodle-maker from Hui-an, by the name of Kuo, moved from Tamsui down to Hsinchu, where he found that the strong wind and bright sunshine were good for drying noodles. His three brothers and their families moved here too, and so began the local rice noodle industry."
「大概一百多年前，惠安的一戶郭姓人家，原本移民到淡水，後來南下發現新竹的風強日烈，很適合曬米粉，一家四兄弟就都遷來定居，發展米粉產業」，新竹米粉業者郭淵源說。