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Four Millennia Old Noodles Found In China

Posted by Zonk on from the i'll-have-some-takout dept.

mollten writes "According to BBC News, the world's oldest noodles have been found at the Lajia site in China. Carbon Dating has found the remains to be over 4000 years old." From the article: "Prior to the discovery of noodles at Lajia, the earliest written record of noodles is traced to a book written during the East Han Dynasty sometime between AD 25 and 220, although it remained a subject of debate whether the Chinese, the Italians, or the Arabs invented it first ... Our discovery indicates that noodles were first produced in China."

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  1. The inventions of noodles was in question? by king-manic · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I thought it was a concrete fact that the chinese invented it and it migrated west. The italians haven't had them for all that long.

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  2. Re:Was it Ramen? by StarDrifter · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The article says they resemble La-Mian noodles. And according to Wikipedia, the name Ramen was probably derived from "la mian". So maybe not exactly ramen, but it could be the ancestor of the modern noodle.