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)Sourced to 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 RegionChina, 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 Sourced to 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. Connections
Used By
Source The Oxford Companion to FoodAlan Davidson
Pho, Dishes Source What Pho Can Teach Us About the History of Vietnam (National Geographic)Ryley Graham
Uses Ingredient
Source Rice Noodles (Wikipedia)
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1. Rice Noodles (Wikipedia)
WikipediaHistory section
The origin of rice noodles dates back to China during the Qin dynasty when people from northern China settled the south.
Uses Ingredient: Thai Cuisine, Thai section, pad thai image caption
Closeup of pad thai, a Thai dish made from rice noodles
View the Source The Oxford Companion to Food
Alan Davidson, Oxford University Press, 2014- entry: Noodles
- Used By: Pad Thai
What Pho Can Teach Us About the History of Vietnam (National Geographic)
Laksa (Wikipedia)
WikipediaUses Ingredient: Laksa, NoodlesQuote, Uses Ingredient: Laksa, Noodles
Thick rice noodles, also known as "laksa noodles" are most commonly used, although thin rice vermicelli (米粉 "bee hoon") are also common.
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