On Wednesday, March 3, 2021 at 4:19:07 PM UTC-5, dsi1 wrote:
> On Wednesday, March 3, 2021 at 8:04:08 AM UTC-10, Sheldon wrote:
> > On Wed, 3 Mar 2021 09:25:54 -0500, Gary > wrote:
> > >On 3/2/2021 2:09 PM, Sqwertz wrote:
> > >> Sheldon Martin wrote:
> > >
> > >>> we rarely ate pasta at home... I still much
> > >>> prefer egg noodles.
> > >>
> > >> Egg noodles aren't pasta?
> > >
> > >Yes they are. Ask Mario Batali. His recipes for both are the same.
> > >I always use egg in my pasta and homemade is to die for.
> > >
> > >I know that some commercial dried pasta doesn't contain eggs. Inferior
> > >product, imo.
> > Most packaged pasta contains no eggs because a lot of people are
> > allergic to eggs so they won't buy any. Wontons and ravioli contain
> > no egg for the same reason. Eastern Europeans make wontons and
> > ravioli with egg, they're called kreploch.
> I think most Chinese noodles contain eggs. That includes won ton wrappers.. Japanese ramen typically does not contain eggs. Hawaiian saimin noodles does because it's Chinese style noodles in a Hawaiian version of Japanese dashi. I think that Korean noodles are mostly egg-less because they're Japanese style noodles.

That's precisely what I thought about Hawai'ian noodle bowls. So many Koreans seem obsessed with trying to prove that they are somehow ARE also Japanese. I never understood that.