Chinese Noodle Restaurants and Producers in DC

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Melissa McCart, It is the Year of Noodle. Washington Post, Feb. 10, 2010.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/08/AR2010020803969.html

Note:
(1) tripe 牛肚
(2) Formica (plastic)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formica_(plastic)
(manufactured by the Formica Corporation based in Cincinnati, Ohio; invented
in 1912 by Daniel J. O'Conor and Herbert A. Faber, then working at
Westinghouse; originally conceived as a substitute for micarta in electrical
insulators, thus the origin of the name "for mica”)

(3) loll (vi): "to act or move in a lax, lazy, or indolent manner : LOUNGE"
(4) drunken noodle
http://www.glossary.com/reference.php?q=Drunken%20noodle
(a Thai dish; No one knows where the name of this dish comes from)
(5) soba 蕎麦 (made of buckwheat)
(6) In the SIDEBAR:
(a) Phở
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ph%E1%BB%9F

(b) sha he fen 沙河粉 (原产广州沙河镇)

沙河街道 (广州市)
http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B2%99%E6%B2%B3%E8%A1%97%E9%81%93_(%E5%B9%BF%E5%B7%9E%E5%B8%82)
(广州市天河区下辖的一个街道; 始设于1950年)

(c) cu mian, often found dried in the shape of birds' nests 粗面
(d) somen 索面

Web sites in China says it is made in Japan
http://www.china-asuka.com/html/rblyx.asp?ClassID=110104&ID=31

or Fujian and 浙南.

But Jim Breen's online dictionary does not have 索麦 or somen. (Taiwan does
not have it, either.)

(e) mung bean: The English word "mung" derives from the Hindi moong, which
is the Hindi word for this bean.

(f) shi dan mian 细蛋面?

(7) For lad na noodle, see
(a) ladna noodle
http://www.yummy-chicken-recipes.com/ladnanoodle.html
("Ladna Noodle or Mee Ladna is very popular in Malaysia, Thailand and
Singapore. The main ingredients are noodles and chicken plus some mixture of
seafood and beef. It is well known in my hometown especially for dinner.")

(b) Rad na
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rad_na
("Rad Na (Thai: ราดหน้า, often
pronounced by Thais as Lad Na, IPA: [lâːt nâː]) is a
Thai-Chinese noodle dish. It is made with stir-fried wide rice noodles, a
form of meat such as chicken, beef, pork, seafood or tofu, and/or garlic,
straw mushrooms and gailan.")

(8) Wheaton, Maryland
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheaton,_Maryland
(in Montgomery County, Maryland, USA, just north of Washington, D.C.)

(9) izakaya 居酒屋 【いざかや】 (n) bar; pub; tavern

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