Shrimp roe noodles

Shrimp roe noodles
The very tiny black dots are a trademark of the noodle
Alternative names	Shrimp noodles
Type	Chinese noodles
Place of origin	Hong Kong
Region or state	Hong Kong
Main ingredients	Shrimp roe. wheat flour, salt, tapioca flour, monosodium glutamate
Cookbook:Shrimp roe noodles Shrimp roe noodles

Shrimp roe noodles

Traditional Chinese

蝦子麵

Simplified Chinese

虾子面

Literal meaning

shrimp egg noodle

Transcriptions
Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	xiāzǐ miàn
Cantonese
Jyutping	haa1 zi2 min6

Shrimp roe noodles or Shrimp noodles are a variety of Chinese noodle popular in Hong Kong. One of the special characteristic that distinguish this noodle from the many other varieties of Chinese noodle is the salty shrimp roe forming tiny black spots on strips of the noodles.^[1]

Production

The noodle is made of wheat flour, salt, tapioca flour, monosodium glutamate (MSG), and shrimp roe.^[2] It comes in a palm-sized hard noodle bundle.

Preparation

Because this noodle has some taste of its own, the most common method of cooking is directly boiling the noodles. Soy sauce or additional flavorings can still be added. Depending on the noodle brand, the black dots may disappear after cooking.

Gallery

Uncooked shrimp roe noodles

References

↑ CNN Go 40 Hong Kong foods we can't live without 13 July 2011. Retrieved 2011-10-09
↑ Shrimp roe noodle packaging

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