Sōmen
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Type | Noodles |
Place of origin | China[1] |
Region or state | East Asia |
Main ingredients | Wheat flour |
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Literal meaning | rope noodle | ||||||||
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Literal meaning | white noodle | ||||||||
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Hangul | 소면 | ||||||||
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Kana | そうめん | ||||||||
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Sōmen (Japanese:
In Japan, sōmen is usually served cold with a light dipping sauce called tsuyu. South Korean somyeon may be eaten in hot or cold noodle soups. Sōmen is typically high in sodium.[2]
Other names are nyūmen (
History
[edit]The earliest record for what would later be sōmen dates back to the Tang dynasty in 618-907 China. Around that time, the Japanese Imperial Court in Nara brought in some knotted pastry from China which they called Sakubei/
East Asian cuisines
[edit]Japan
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Sōmen are usually served cold with a light flavored dipping sauce[5] or tsuyu. The tsuyu is usually a katsuobushi-based sauce that can be flavored with Japanese bunching onion, ginger, or myoga. In the summer, sōmen chilled with ice is a popular meal to help stay cool.
Sōmen served in hot soup is usually called nyūmen and eaten in the winter, just like soba or udon are.
Some restaurants offer nagashi-sōmen (
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Sōmen (in large white bowl at upper-right) with assorted toppings
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Nagashi-sōmen
South Korea
[edit]In Korean cuisine, somyeon is used in hot and cold noodles soups such as janchi-guksu (banquet noodles) and kong-guksu (noodles in cold soybean soup), as well as soupless noodle dishes such as bibim-guksu (mixed noodles). It is often served with spicy anju (food that accompanies alcoholic drink) such as golbaengi-muchim (moon snail salad).
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Golbaengi-muchim served with boiled somyeon
Gallery
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Five-colour somyeon
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Boiled somyeon
See also
[edit]- Capellini - Italian pasta with similar thinness
- Hiyashi chūka
- Sōmen salad
References
[edit]- ^ "
麺類 雑学 辞典 「そうめん」".日本 麺類 業 団体 連合 会 (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 4 January 2018. - ^ "8 Secretly Super-Salty Foods". 6 April 2015.
- ^ Somen : Silky, Springy Noodles
- ^ Beware of Somen! Uncovering the Secrets of Japan's Tasty and Versatile Noodles
- ^ Hiking in Japan - Richard Ryall, Craig McLachlan, David Joll. p. 177.
- ^ a b Adika, Alon (September 21, 2013). "Tsushima: a boundary island of Japan". The Japan Times. Retrieved 19 October 2013.
External links
[edit]Media related to Somen at Wikimedia Commons