Dragon Noodles

Preparation info
  • Serves

    2 to 3

    as a Main Course
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in

By Barbara Tropp

Published 1992

  • About

For our Chinese New Year’s feast in 1988 (the lunar year symbolized by the dragon in Chinese cosmology), our talented bartender-artist, Larry Yung, suspended a writhing, 60-foot paper dragon from our 20-foot ceiling, and I put together a new noodle dish for the menu. It is this one—a tangle of cold thin egg noodles dressed in a light, zippy dressing redolent of chili, lemon, and ginger.

Given the requisite ingredients, this is a dish that can be made in minutes. It will multiply to