Ingredients

Rice Noodles

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General Reference

Food and Drink Atlas. "Rice Noodles." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://food.interactiveatlas.org/ingredients/rice-noodles.

APA Style

Food and Drink Atlas. (n.d.). Rice Noodles. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://food.interactiveatlas.org/ingredients/rice-noodles

BibTeX

@misc{foodanddrinkatlas-rice-noodles,
  author = {Food and Drink Atlas},
  title = {Rice Noodles},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://food.interactiveatlas.org/ingredients/rice-noodles},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

Noodles made from rice flour and water, a staple across Southeast Asian and southern Chinese cuisines, central to dishes such as Pad Thai.

Facts

Earliest Documented Use, From (Year)

from 221 BCE 1

the subject's own accountDated to the Qin dynasty (221 to 206 BCE), the period the source names for the northern-to-southern migration that produced rice noodles.

Origin Region

China, where rice noodles are documented from the Qin dynasty as northern Chinese migrants settled the south and adapted their wheat-noodle tradition to rice; the practice later spread through East and Southeast Asia. 1

the subject's own accountA separate, independently documented rice-noodle tradition (idiyappam) is recorded in Tamil-country Sangam literature from around the 1st century CE; the two are treated as parallel regional developments, not a competing claim on the same origin.

Cross-Tradition Connections