Eating in China
Generated guide illustration: one cooked starch-noodle form; the stew reference does not specify its starch crop.

Starch noodles

粉条Fěntiáo

Long starch-based noodles added to a simmering stew.

Type
Flour & starch noodles

A CLOSER LOOK

How to recognize it

Long starch-based noodles added to the stew to cook in its liquid.

In the kitchen

An optional addition to chicken-and-mushroom stew.

Distinct from wheat noodles and loose starch powder. The name does not identify a particular starch crop.

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