Top Asian Noodles Dishes

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Mie goreng

Indonesia’s favorite street noodles, this dish is stir-fried with meatballs or seafood and veggies. Traditionally it’s spicy, so seek it out if you’re looking for a kick!

Mi rebus

The name of this dish literally translates to “boiled noodles.” It’s a little more interesting than that, however; yellow egg noodles are served in a curry potato gravy with hard-boiled egg, tofu, limes, onions, and bean sprouts.

Mie aceh

This dish is a specialty of the Acehnese people of Indonesia. A very spicy curry soup, it’s filled with thick yellow noodles and slices of goat, beef, or seafood and served either as a soup or strained after cooking and served dry.

Lo mein

Wheat flour noodles, prepared as a soup but separated out before serving. Usually prepared with vegetables and some kind of seafood or meat. Like chow mein, lo mein’s gained global popularity, but the Americanized version is stir-fried, rather than cooked as a soup and strained.

Luosifen

A specialty from the city of Liuzhou in Southern China, luosifen is a dish of rice noodles boiled in a heavily spiced river-snail and pork broth, with pickled and fresh vegetables, peanuts, and chili peppers. Its name literally means “snail rice noodle.”

 Dandan noodles

A traditional Sichuan dish comprising spicy sauce, pickled vegetables, chili oil, Sichuan pepper, and minced pork served over noodles — sometimes sesame paste or peanut butter is added, but usually only in the Americanized version of the dish.

Wonton noodles

A very popular Cantonese dish with noodles served in hot broth with shrimp wontons. There’s a very strict way of serving this dish so the noodles don’t overcook: The spoon goes in the bottom of the bowl, then the shrimp wontons, with the noodles on top.

 Mohinga

This rice-noodle and fish soup is considered by many to be the national dish of Myanmar. Though usually eaten for breakfast, it can be found anywhere at any time of day. While the recipe varies from region to region, the foundation of the soup is chickpea flour, lemongrass, garlic, onion, ginger, fish paste, fish sauce, catfish, and banana-tree stem, poured over rice vermicelli with lime and spicy chili.

Ramen

Oh, ramen. When Americans think of noodles, they likely think of ramen. Wheat-based noodles are prepared in meat or seafood broth and topped with things like pork belly, seaweed, green onions, or egg. Most regions of Japan have their own versions of the dish.