Eleven soups were listed, and if the shredded-pork-and-preserved-cabbage version is any indication, there is much promise for winter comfort in others, including the winter melon with preserved pork, the vinegar-flavor fish fillet and the curry bean noodle.
RARE BEAUTY Mr. Thigpen appreciates the "pretty, pealike blooms" and "light fragrance" of the Chinese red noodle bean.
Thai noodles can be divided into four major categories: the kanom jeen, rice noodles, wheat noodles and mung bean noodles.
The dark horse of the noodle dishes, though, was pad khi mao, based on flat, transparent mung bean noodles, just a tad spicy, with vegetables and basil.
Dishes like mung bean noodles with chives and Sichuan pepper, dan dan crispy potatoes, and mapo tofu deliver a Sichuan kick: 40-17 Broadway (41st Street), Astoria, Queens, 718-777-0913, haschinese.com.com
Vegetarian substitutes for shark fin, such as those made from bean noodles, are already on the market, says Dunlop, who also warns that the bioengineered product could end up being passed off as authentic by unscrupulous chefs.
WHAT WE LIKE Chicken satay, vegetable dumplings, curry puff, pad khi mao (transparent green bean noodles), kang panang (shrimp in panang curry), pahd cashew nut (chicken with cashews), pahd prig king (basil curry), pad Thai (rice noodles), lad nha seafood (flat noodles with seafood), sticky rice dessert, fried ice cream.
My favorite dishes on the new California menu are two dishes of green bean noodles.
Sauteed Green Bean Noodles, with minced chicken, mushrooms, cilantro, in a XO sauce.
My favorite dish of all is the Soy Green Bean Noodles, complex and gluten-free!
Yes, I know, you have never heard of green bean noodles.
