Rice Noodles

 

A Gei Rice Noodles

Rice Noodles

Address: Ground F, No 1A, Nga Tsin Wai Rd, Kowloon City, Kowloon

The colors of the restuarant's outlook are simple and striking.

Almost every table is taken at 1 am, so come a little bit earlier if you can.

It offers you various choices like rice noodles in Yunan style, in Guilin style and in Sichuan Style. Also, you can choose whether to have soup with the noodles or not; and how spicy is the noodles. Moreover, if you are not satisfied with toppings of a certain kind of noodles, you can choose other toppings from more than 20 choices

Rice noodles without soup plus two dumplings. Minium Spicy.

Pot-boiled rice noodles in Yunnan style

Rice Noodles Insight (Free entry)

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A brief history

Rice noodles are soft, transparent, and often retaining a scent of paddy field. In ancient Southern China, where rice enjoyed two to three harvest seasons in a year, many people lived on rice as their main food; meanwhile it was dreary for those people to eat steamed rice (commonplace till now) all the time. Thus, Rice noodles were born to set off the pain of eating drab food.

Some also believe that the noodles made of rice were fruit of Chinese soldiers’ nostalgia. More than 2000 years ago, soldiers of northern China were sent to build canals in the south where land produced no wheat for them to make noodles which were popular back in their northern hometowns. Rice, in a result, became an alternative for wheat in making noodles. And, surprisingly, it was an even better choice.

Now, Rice noodles are people’s main food, not only in Southern China, but also in many other places in South East Asia, such as Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. In different places, Rice noodles are cooked in different manners with different ingredients. Here is my collection of Rice noodles.

Rice noodles with beef

In Changsha, the capital city of Hunan, China, rice noodles are very spicy. Sometimes, there are two to three kinds of red peppers on the table of restaurants. It usually costs around $2 each.

In the west of Hunan province, where social developments are much backward than its capital, rice noodles are extremely cheap, only half a dollar each. Toppings include sliced beef, sliced chicken and minced duck rice-cakes. Around half a dollar each.

Rice noodles with beef is also a commonplace for breakfast in Cambodia. Meanwhile, different with Chinese rice noodles, rice noodles with beef in Phnom Penh are seasoned with lemon, and much less spicy. $1.5 each.

In Vietnam, rice noodles are so popular that there are several chain-restaurants specialized for rice noodles, like Pho 24 and Pho 2000. Different from China, Cambodia, and Laos, noodles made of wheat are hardly found in Vietnam. Also, the Vietnam rice noodles are cooked more delicately than Cambodia-styled; apart from lemon, lemongrasses, basil leaves and bean sprouts are all dressed in the noodles. Around $1 to $2 each.

Rice noodles with minced duck rice-cakes

It is a local special of Fenghuang town (Town of Phoenix), a famous travel city in northwest Hunan province. The price of rice noodles almost doubles, compared with other places in these region. $2 each.

Rice noodles with pot-stewed vegetables and meat

It is a Local special for Guilin, Guangxi province. After boiled, the noodles are often stirred with pot-stewed vegetables and meat instead of soaked in soups. Around half a dollar each.

Hot and sour rice noodles

Hot and sour rice noodles of Sichuan often come along with the brisk baked cakes. The same kind of rice noodles when served out of Sichuan province loses the company of baked cakes and was less spicy. Around $1.

Rice noodles with chicken

It is popular throughout Laos. And in southern Laos, sometimes it is fried like Pad Thai, topped with minced peanut. $1.5-$2.