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Udon

Udon is a noodle made with wheat flour. Cooks boil, simmer, deep-fry, or stir-fry it and pair it with scallion or soy sauce.

Cooked most in
Asia
Top country
Japan
Udon, in dish

Photo: Gatorfan252525 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use udon

Typical ways to cook or use it

  • Boil simmer
  • Deep fry
  • Stir fry

Made from

Goes well with

If you don’t have udon

  • soba · Works in a pinch, for cooked

    Soba can replace udon in many of these dishes.

On the table

Dishes made with udon

1 dish in the catalogue uses it.
  • Tempura udon

    Japan

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

Family

Related forms

A kind of
noodle

Around the world

What udon is called

Names in 47 languages, from Wikidata.
  • Spanish

    udon

  • French

    Udon

  • Italian

    Udon

  • Portuguese

    Udon

  • German

    Udon · Udong

  • Dutch

    Udon

  • Turkish

    Udon

  • Russian

    Удон

  • Polish

    Udon

  • Arabic

    أودون

  • Persian

    اودون · ئودون

  • Hebrew

    אודון

Show all 47 languages
  • Armenian

    Ուդոն (լապշա)

  • Azerbaijani

    Udon

  • Bangla

    উদোন

  • Basque

    Udon

  • Belarusian

    Удон

  • Burmese

    အူဒွန်

  • Cantonese

    烏冬

  • Catalan

    udon

  • Chinese

    烏龍麵 · 烏冬 · 乌冬 · 乌龙面

  • Czech

    udon

  • Esperanto

    udonoj · udono

  • Estonian

    udon

  • Finnish

    Udon

  • Galician

    Udon

  • Hindi

    उदोन

  • Hungarian

    Udon

  • Icelandic

    Udon

  • Indonesian

    udon

  • Japanese

    うどん · 饂飩 · うんどん · ウドン

  • Javanese

    Udon

  • Korean

    우동

  • Literary Chinese

    饂飩

  • Lithuanian

    Udon

  • Macedonian

    удон

  • Malay

    Udon

  • Min Nan Chinese

    U-lóng

  • Minangkabau

    Udon

  • Norwegian Bokmål

    Liste over Konoha-ninjaer

  • Simplified Chinese

    乌冬面

  • Simplified Chinese (China)

    乌冬面

  • Simplified Chinese (Singapore)

    乌冬

  • Slovenian

    udon

  • Swedish

    Udon

  • Thai

    อูดง · อุด้ง · อุดง

  • Traditional Chinese

    烏龍麵 · 烏龍

  • Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong SAR China)

    烏冬

  • Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)

    烏龍麵 · 烏龍

  • Ukrainian

    удон

  • Uzbek

    Udon

  • Vietnamese

    Mì Udon

  • Wu Chinese

    烏龍麵

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

Wikidata item: Q471861

Photos

Photo: Gatorfan252525 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons