Expert: Sherman D. Date: 2/1/2008 Subject: udan noodles
Question Hi, my name is Tompkins and I am doing an abc's book project on Japan and for the "U", I have udan noodles if you know anything about their history or really anything at all please email me back thanks
-Tompkins
The origin of Udon in Japan is usually credited to K¨±kai. K¨±kai, a Buddhist priest, traveled to China around the beginning of the 9th century to study Buddhism. When he returned, he also brought back the knowledge of Udon soup to his farmer neighbors in the Sanuki region of Japan. In China, similar thick wheat flour noodles are called c¨± mi¨¤n (´ÖÃæ). This original udon was 2 to 3 cm in diameter, a flat pancake-shaped "noodle" added to miso-based soup. In modern Chinese, the characters ðQï‚ refer to wonton dumplings, not noodles. (Compare pasta, which can be both noodle-like and dumpling-like.) The noodles are called žõ¶¬ w¨±d¨ng or žõ¶¬üI w¨±d¨ngmi¨¤n, sometimes žõýˆüI w¨±l¨®ngmi¨¤n - Note that this is unrelated to Oolong tea, žõýˆ²è w¨±l¨®ngch¨¢.
for the real info, go to the site above. i copied and pasted the info from the site, which is only a fraction of what you can find, and it won't do the required japanese symbols.
