Yunnan Laifen

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    2

    as Lunch
    • Difficulty

      Easy

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By Yan-Kit So

Published 1992

  • About

Laifen refers to the tubular rice noodles, which are much thicker than the wiry rice vermicelli (being about 2 mm/1/10 in in diameter), even though sometimes, on the packets, the label in English is the same. The texture, too, is different, for whereas laifen literally give you a bouncy sensation on yo