The Noodle Cookbook: Quick & Ea

Like pasta, noodles are a versatile food. They are quick, cheap and go with savoury, spicy and even sweet sources. They come in a variety of styles - hearty wholewheat noodles, broad rice sticks, the familiar Chinese noodles and the delicate Vietnamese angel-hair vermicelli - all of which are now increasingly available in most shops. They can be served in soup - as in Grandma's American chicken noodle soup or the delicately spiced and fragrant Japanese noodle broth; fried - whether heaped with mounds of stir-fried vegetables or fiery with spices and seafood, as in Singapore fried noodles; or stuffed - Chinese won ton and Middle European stuffed noodles are equally easy and delicious to make.