Noodles: Cheap, filling, delicious, they slide across class and national boundaries. Almost anywhere you go in the world, there are noodles. They can be boiled, dried, or fried; served steamy hot or chilled; twisted on a fork or plucked with chopsticks, covered in sauce or sunk in broth, slurped noisily, or chewed silently; made of wheat, rice, devil’s tongue, corn, beans, kudzu root, or kelp: Spätzle (Germany). Eriste. (Turkey). Pasta, pizzoccheri, tagliatelle (Italy). Udon, somen, ramen (Japan). Idiyappam (India). Bánh pho, Vietnam. Naengmyeon, Makguksu, Lochshen, Kalguksu (South Korea). Raengmyon (North Korea). Itriyya (Aramaia). Sevai (South India). Zacierki, Lochshen (European Jewish). Bakmi (Indonesian Chinese). Lamian (China). Reshte (Central Asia, Persia, and Afghanistan).Thukpa, Wylie (Tibet). Khanom chin (Thailand). All noodles. All good.
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Oh I love noodles, hot, cold any which way.
I LOVE slippery noodles! Anyone got a recipe?