silver-needle noodle

plural silver-needle noodles

1. alternativeAlternative form of silver needle noodle.

   The only route to hand-shaping tapered silver-needle noodles so effortlessly is years and years of practice.

   2019 October 30, Devra First, “A new frontier for grandma’s cooking”, in The Boston Globe, volume 296, number 122, Boston, Mass.: Boston Globe Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page G7, column 1

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   Fresh silver-needle noodles, a specialty of Canton, are similar to rice noodles but are made with gluten-free wheat starch in thick (about ¼-inch) rolled shapes about 1½ inches long, with pointed tips.

   1995 January 25, Marilynn Marter, “The wide variety of Asian noodles, from buckwheat to rice to egg”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, 166th year, number 239, Philadelphia, Pa.: Philadelphia Newspapers, →ISSN, →OCLC, page E4, column 2

   Finally, the nearby Nice Restaurant offers dim sum delicacies ($1.95–$3.95)—pan-fried turnip cakes, shrimp-stuffed eggplant, silver-needle noodles—that have been pleasing New Yorkers since the Year of the Ox.

   2002 February 11, Emily Gitter, Ben Kaplan, “Brother, Can You Spare a Cosmo?”, in New York, volume 35, New York, N.Y.: New York Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Nov 2018, page 41, column 2