I realized many countries where people eat rice as staple food have rice noodles, but we don’t have it in Japan, and I’m wondering why.
There are thin ones and thick ones, and there are various flavors, and some come with soup and others don’t.
Rice is, in a sense, very special to the Japanese, and we are educated from an early age that rice should not be wasted. In a word, Japanese love rice so much. So why we only have ordinary rice but not noodles made of rice? Did the old Japanese think that making noodles from rice was a waste of rice?
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That's a really interesting topic. I wonder why.
@Sean, Right? I’ve been wondering for a long time!
Humm, I always assumed that Japan would have rice noodles, so this was a little shocking to read XD.
@Tom, After living in China, I learned that there are various noodles made from rice in China. After that, I returned to Japan and began to wonder why there are rice noodles in Asian countries such as Thailand and Vietnam, but not in Japan. Sure, you can find rice noodles in Japan as well, but we consider them as something came from foreign countries and do not consider them to be Japanese food :)
It might have something to do with Japan having udon noodles and soba noodles.