Asia, America, noodles!

We had refugees in our home (28, in five families), and all made different kind of noodles themselves. (I remember vividly when I saw for the first time that and how they were dried ... hanging over the kitchen oven.)
As a child, I wandered from one kitchen to the other (including grandma's and ours) to decide where to have lunch (dinner) ...

What a good visual memory, Walter.
Me, I use plastic hangers, hanging from knobs, to dry the pasta...

And small wonder . . . the nasty, dry, tasteless things . . .

You obviously never tasted some.

Oh yeah i have . . . but i did succeed in getting a rise out of the Dutchmen in this thread . . .

Hehehehehehehehehehehehehe . . .

I'll admit I didn't like that first homemade noodle soup. It probably showed on my face, and my gallery partner was so proud of making them. The noodles were too mushy to my taste, not unlike what happened to one of my recent soups all these years later. I should never have put that particular pasta in a soup. Well, so are canned soup noodles to me, in a different way. I like the italian way of treating fresh pasta, quick cook.. and don't know how they are treated in german cooking.

Looking back at my choices of pan fried noodle photos from the first few pages of google image pan friend noodles.. they look way overburdened with stuff to me, relative to what I am used to, but the other photos didn't show the noodles as really pan fried.

Saute the fresh noodles in peanut oil, add a bit of sesame oil, some soy sauce, a drop of rice vinegar, a blob of minced ginger and garlic and you're good to go. Add some sliced beef, shrimp or chicken, some green onions and bean sprouts if you want more substance.

I worked within a couple blocks of Chinatown district in Oakland for many years and was very very spoiled by lunches from the restaurants, delis and markets there.

You guys are really making me hungry for noodles. I read this whole thread.

Dose anybody like Pho? Vietnamese noodle soup with thin sliced flank steak (and other stuff)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ph%E1%BB%9F#Origins_and_regional_differences



VIVA NOODLES!!!

Greman Noodles??? That sounds good too

Of course, silly.

You've all convinced me that Brendalee and I will have to go to The Noodle Bowl for our pre-concert meal tomorrow night. I'll tell her some friends suggested it

I think I'll order Thai Tom Yum chicken soup, or mebbe the giant bowl of noodles and bbq pork in broth with a handful of fresh, chopped coriander.