The Day of His Noodly Appendage
The holiest of holidays for Pastafarians, is of course the birthday of His Most Holy Prophet, Marco Polo (b. Sept 15, 1254), who brought the word of his Noodly Appendage back from the East. As Talk Like A Pirate Day falls on September 19th, this five-day period constitutes Holy Pasta Week, during which spaghetti is consumed liberally. With a nice Chianti until the last day when it’s grog for all.
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I’m more fond of Korean noodles nowadays. I’m sure that His Noodlyness will forgive me for skipping the spaghetti. At least, so I pray. Ramen.
Since seeing Tampopo my preference awakened in flying to the Far East has been for Japanese noodles and not the packaged knock-offs. You could get them in San Diego, but not down here, so I make do with angel-hair.
It’s the semolina that matters …
It’s soooooooooo unfair!! :'( No pasta for me! Stoopid diets! Take all the fun outa life.
Hmmph!
Whoa! That is a major bummer, and not just for this week. I don’t think I could handle that, because there are just too many things that really need pasta to be edible.
I love the Japanese noodles too, but I have to dose them with sriracha sauce to make them fully edible, else they’re too sticky sweet (not sweet in the western definition of the word, sweet like teriyaki sweet). The Korean noodles are spicy enough all on their own :twisted:.
And yes, I can get both Japanese *and* Korean noodles here.
The broth has to be right for the noodles to be right. If the broth isn’t worth drinking after the noodles are gone, it was a waste of noodles.
What Asian food they get around here is all the supermarket stuff. Asian markets, but not the the best of Asian products, just the mediocre stuff sold to the masses, and it is way overpriced.