"mee" for wheat noodles, "hoon" or "hun" for non-wheat). Wheat noodles, for example, are called "mian" in Mandarin, "mein" in Cantonese, "men" in Japanese, "mee" in Thai, and "myeon" in Korean.

The names of some types of noodles are based on the name of their principal ingredient (such as wheat, buckwheat, rice, potato, corn flour, bean or soybean flour, yam flour, mung-bean starch, sweet potato, or cassava).

History

The earliest written record of noodles is from a book dated to the Eastern Han

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