Cucumber, Carrot, and Cellophane Noodle Salad

Flavor: Unique — Meal: Easy, Cold

“Our regular outhouse was next to the pigsty,” recalls Mrs. Chiang, “but we also had an indoor privy just for the women, painted a cheerful vermilion. Nightsoil and manure were our fertilizer; my father collected the nightsoil and pig manure every night and spread it over the fields. It was a wonderful fertilizer, but using it meant we rarely ate raw leafy vegetables; it was too hard to clean them properly. Our salads were made from