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For other uses, see Noodle (disambiguation).
Misua noodle making in Lukang, Taiwan

A noodle is made from unleavened dough that has been shaped into thin flat strips or round cylinders and cooked in a boiling liquid. Depending upon the type, noodles may be dried or refrigerated before cooking. The word noodle derives from the German Nudel (noodle) and may be related to the Latin word nodus (knot). In English, noodle is a generic term for unleavened dough made from many different types of ingredients and includes a variety of shapes.

The first written account of noodles is from the East Han Dynasty between AD 25 and 220. In October 2005, the oldest noodles yet discovered were found at the Lajia site (Qijia culture) along the Yellow River in Qinghai, China. The 4,000-year-old noodles appear to have been made from foxtail millet and broomcorn millet.[1]

Types of noodles by primary ingredient

Wide, uncooked egg noodles.

Egg

Egg noodles are usually made of a mixture of egg and flour

Wheat

Rice

  • Flat or Thick rice noodles, also known as héfěn or ho fun (河粉), kway teow or sen yai (เส้นใหญ่)
  • Rice vermicelli: thin rice noodles, also known as mǐfěn (米粉) or bee hoon or sen mee (เส้นหมี่)

Mung bean

  • Cellophane noodles, also known as glass noodles, or bean vermicelli. fěnsī (粉絲) in Chinese, harusame(春雨) in Japanese, soun or suun in Indonesian, wun sen (วุ้นเส้น) in Thai.

Potato or canna starch

Buckwheat

Types of noodle dishes

  • Pasta is an Italian noodle dish.
  • Basic noodles: These are cooked in water or broth, then drained. Other foods can be added (for example a pasta sauce ) or the noodles are added to other foods (see fried noodles or lasagna) or the noodles can be served plain with a dipping sauce or oil to be added at the table. In general, noodles are soft and absorb flavors.
  • Chilled noodles: noodles are sometimes served in a salad. An example is the Thai glass noodle salad yam woon sen. In Japan, traditional Japanese noodles such as soba and somen are often served chilled with a dipping sauce. Some western dishes like pasta salads also call for cold noodles.

Other uses

  • As an adjective, the word "noodle" can be combined with a body part in order to emphasize the narrowness or literal noodle-like size of such body part, often in a mocking sense. For example, "This credenza desk is very heavy. You won't be able to pick it up with those noodle-arms."
  • 'Noodling' is also a term for playing smooth fast guitar solos on the guitar.
  • Playing on slang use of "noodle" for the mind, "noodled" has been used as a term for not Googling something - see Google (verb) - because you already know. In the "Get Fuzzy" comic strip of Feb. 12, 2008, Satchel Pooch says that Bucky did not need to Google the sinking of the Vasa (ship) because he already knew about it - so he "noodled" it.
  • Also used as a verb, to ponder. Example, "I have been noodling that idea for some time."

See also

Look up noodle in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Notes

  1. ^ "Oldest noodles unearthed in China", BBC News, 12 October 2005.
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