wheat noodles

Flour-based pasta strips

Wheat noodles are noodles made from wheat flour, distinguishing them from rice noodles, glass noodles, or other starch-based varieties.

The term appears most often in Asian cuisine contexts where multiple noodle types coexist: The pho came with your choice of rice or wheat noodles.

Common wheat noodles include ramen, udon, and lo mein.

Related
  • ramenJapanese noodle soup
  • udonThick Japanese wheat noodle
  • pastaShaped wheat dough
  • doughFlour-liquid mixture for baking
  • brothClear simmered meat liquid

slurp · chewy · chewy texture · flour · chopsticks · bowl · steaming · lo mein · chow mein · stir-fry · springy · soy sauce · scallions · tangled · boiling · al dente · strand · sesame

Opposites
grain/starch base

wheat noodlesrice noodles

Grain-based Asian pasta

glass noodles · cellophane noodles · sweet potato noodles · soba · zucchini noodles

Family

wheat, noodle, noodles, wheats, wheaten

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Top 500,000
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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G