Noodle

A noodle is a type of pasta with a soft texture. Cooks bake, boil, simmer, deep-fry, shallow-fry, steam, and stir-fry noodles.

Category: Grains, flours & pasta
Texture: Soft
Cooked most in: Asia, Europe
Top country: Indonesia
Dishes: 20 in the catalogue

Photo: Tiia Monto · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use noodle

Typical ways to cook or use it

Bake
Boil simmer
Deep fry
Shallow fry
Steam
Stir fry

Cooking with it

Noodles absorb flavors.

Flavour

Taste and texture

Texture

Soft

Around the world

Where noodle is cooked

20 dishes in the catalogue use noodle. Here is where they come from.

Dishes by continent

Asia16
Europe1

Countries whose dishes use it most

Counts are catalogued dishes from each country that list noodle among their ingredients.

Origins

About the 300s · China and Central Asia
Noodles spread from China through Central Asia and reached Persia around the fourth century.
The 800s · Italy
Moors introduced pasta to Sicily in the ninth century, according to Jeffrey Steingarten.

On the table

Dishes made with noodle

16 of the 20 catalogued dishes that use it, spread across the countries they come from.

Mie ayam
Indonesia
Fideuà
Spain
Sakata ramen
Japan
Mi Gomak
Indonesia
Okinawa soba
Japan
Mi Kocok
Indonesia
Tahu campur
Indonesia
Mie celor
Indonesia
Seblak
Indonesia
Bakmi
Indonesia
Yellow tail fish balls
Indonesia
Kale noodles
Indonesia
Tarempa noodles
Indonesia
Boiled noodles
Indonesia
Fideos con caballa
Noodle latkes

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include noodle.

Family

Related forms

Kinds: cellophane noodles, udon

Around the world

What noodle is called

Names in 102 languages, from Wikidata.

Spanish
fideo · aletría · fideos · tallarin
French
nouille · nouilles chinoises · nouilles
Italian
pasta lunga · noodle · nudolini
Portuguese
talharim
German
Nudel · Teigware · Nudeln
Dutch
noedels · noedel · noodle · noodles
Greek
νουντλ
Turkish
erişte
Russian
лапша
Polish
makaron miękki · kluski · makaron · nudle
Arabic
عصائبية · الشعرية · نودل · شعرية
Persian
نودل

Show all 102 languages

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شعرية
Afrikaans
noedel
Albanian
noodle
Armenian
լափշա
Azerbaijani
əriştə
Bangla
নুডলস · নুডুলস
Bashkir
туҡмас
Basque
ziriol · bermizela · fideo
Bavarian
Nuul · nudl
Belarusian
локшына
Belarusian (Taraskievica orthography)
локшына
Betawi
mi
Brazilian Portuguese
talharim
Breton
toazennoù Sina · toazennoù
Bulgarian
нудли
Burmese
ခေါက်ဆွဲ
Cantonese
麪 · 麵 · 麵條 · Noodle
Catalan
fideus xinesos
cdo
miêng
Cebuano
pansit · fideos · nudol · pansit (sangkap)
Chinese
面条 · 麵 · 麵條 · 麪
Chuvash
тукмаç
Croatian
rezanci
Czech
nudle
Danish
nudler · nudel
Egyptian Arabic
شعريه
Esperanto
nudelo
Estonian
nuudel
Filipino
pansit · luglog · pansit (sangkap)
Finnish
nuudeli · pikanuudeli · pikanuudelit · nuudelit
Galician
fideo chinés
Georgian
ატრია
Hausa
taliya
Hebrew
אטריות · איטריה · אטריה · נודלס
Hindi
नूडल · कुक्सु · नूडल्ज़ · नूडल्स
Hungarian
tészta
Iban
mi
Icelandic
núðla · núðlur
Ido
nudlo
Igbo
noodle
Indonesian
mi · mie
Irish
núdal
Japanese
麺 · 麵 · 麪 · めん
Javanese
mi · mie
Kannada
ನೂಡಲ್
Kazakh
кеспе
kge
mie
Korean
국수 · 국수 요리
Kyrgyz
кесме
Latin
collyra
Latvian
nūdeles
Literary Chinese
麵
Lithuanian
makaronai
Luxembourgish
Nuddel
Macedonian
нудли
Malay
mi · mee
Malayalam
നൂഡിൽസ്
Manchu
ᡥᠠᠩᠰᡝ
Māori
kihu parāoa
Marathi
नूडल्स
Min Nan Chinese
mī · mī-tiâu
Min Nan Chinese (Traditional)
麵
Minangkabau
mi · mi (makanan)
Nepali
चाउचाउ
Norwegian
nudler
Norwegian Bokmål
nudler · nudel
Norwegian Nynorsk
nudlar
Novial
nudle · nudles
Odia
ନୁଡୁଲ
Ossetic
хæнкъæл
Punjabi
ਨੂਡਲ
Quechua
hiryus · phidiyu · fidiyu · fideos
Romanian
tăiței
Serbian
кнедла
Serbian (Cyrillic)
кнедла
Serbian (Latin)
knedla
Shan
ၶဝ်ႈသွႆး
Simplified Chinese
面条
Simplified Chinese (China)
面条
Simplified Chinese (Singapore)
面条
Slovak
rezance
Slovenian
rezanec · nudelj
Sundanese
emih
Swahili
tambi
Swedish
nudlar · snabbnudlar · nudel · aggnudlar
Swiss German
Nudle
Tajik
угро
Tamil
நூடுல்ஸ்
Thai
บะหมี่และก๋วยเตี๋ยว · อาหารประเภทเส้น
Traditional Chinese
麵條
Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong SAR China)
麵條
Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)
麵條
Ukrainian
локшина
Urdu
نوڈل
Uyghur
ئۈگرە
Vietnamese
mì sợi · mỳ sợi
Welsh
nwdl · nwdls
Western Mari
лӓшкӓ
Western Panjabi
نوڈل
Wu Chinese
麵
Zhuang
mienh

Sources and credits

Data

GlobeCooks editorial: descriptions, kitchen notes and classification, written by GlobeCooks from checked sources
Wikidata: names, classification and dishes (CC0 1.0)
Wikimedia Commons: photos
Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Wikidata item: Q192874

Photos