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i'm barrel
this week we're going to be looking at
noodles
by the way i'm at my parents house
exhibit a exhibit b
exhibit my dog hi harry my mom's dog
oh it's so hot it is way too hot i'm not
gonna be cooking i'm just gonna give you
some facts and we'll get into the story
okay
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so
in 2005 archaeologists in china
uncovered a bowl of noodles that was
four thousand years old this solidified
china as the birthplace of noodles from
china it's believed that nomadic arabs
nomadic arabs traveling east brought the
dish across the middle east and into
europe
and since then noodles have gone global
from fideos in mexico to ramen in japan
vermicelli in the middle east every
country has its own interpretation there
is no way that i could cover every
noodle from every country it's just not
possible you would be watching this
video forever
i could however cover seven so i spoke
to seven people who make seven different
noodles in seven countries to see the
different iterations around the world
so this
is the noodle episode
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in making this episode i decided two
things
one i'm not doing instant noodles that
is a whole other episode and if you want
that one let me know
and two the noodles should be handmade
so i'm not gonna go to factories for
this one
and i do want to say one more thing
quickly a lot of the noodles that you're
going to see have different names in
different countries and i am not saying
that one is more right than the other i
just happened to film in the countries
that i filmed in so if you see a noodle
from your country buy a different name
leave a comment and let us know what it
is called where you live
knowledge is power noodle knowledge is
power okay let's begin
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in berlin
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unofficially people think maggie has
noodles of india but idiyappam
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we'll begin in china here many cities
have their own noodle recipes meaning
there are over 1 000 different types of
noodles in the country
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foreign
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next is a rice noodle out of thailand
where the process for making it is
becoming a
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next up is german spotsel the word
spotzl comes from the swabian word
meaning little sparrows kinda cute
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b
keeping in europe this noodle is one of
the rarest in the world
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you might not think about noodles when
you think about indian cuisine or maybe
you think about maggie but they have
actually been around since the 5th
century
this dish my mother used to do very
early
my name is shanta
and i live in bengaluru today i am going
to make ricey diyappa
it is also known as nool put
noodle means that is thread
that putter means it is made up of rice
take rice flour mix it with little bit
of salt add water
then make a dough out of it
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put it in media pump press grease it
with a plate then you press it properly
then steam it texture it is looks like
bread type and it is very soft
we can eat idiapam with chutney and with
sugar and with
stew
because rice is grown in kerala it's a
it's staple food in kerala it's very
important to our culture
i love that food very much
and i see that i make it at home
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the word lapsa is the russian word for
noodle and they become popular because
of the ability to dry them and store
them through the long cold russian
winters
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final noodle is a rice noodle out of
vietnam that has become a family
business
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i think it's interesting how within the
seven noodle dishes that we saw the
ingredients are more or less the same
you know obviously there's some
interpretations there but it's the
execution that makes them so different
and yet we can definitely say that
noodles are
universal and we are one world united by
our love of them
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is made with the love of mom and when i
was a child my mother grandmother they
all used to prepare by seeing it and
then i learned
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