Fried noodles are common throughout

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. Many varieties, cooking styles, and ingredients exist.

Fried noodle dishes

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* Beef chow fun – Cantonese dish of stir-fried beef, flat rice noodles, bean sprouts, and green onions * Char kway teow – Chinese-inspired dish commonly served in Malaysia and Singapore, comprising stir-fried, flat rice noodles with

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, eggs,

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s, fish cake,

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s, green leafy vegetables and Chinese sausages *

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– Nepali-style stir-fried noodles, often cooked with onion, vegetables and buff (

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meat) and also widely eaten in India * Chow mein – dish featured in

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, American Chinese cuisine and Canadian Chinese cuisine; also a generic term for stir-fried wheat noodles in Chinese * Hakka noodles – Indian-Chinese style fried noodles, commonly known as desi chow mein * Drunken noodles (''phat khi mao'') – Thai dish of stir-fried wide rice noodles * Hokkien mee – Chinese-inspired Malaysian and

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dish, of stir-fried noodles with many variations in ingredients *

Japchae ''Japchae'' () is a savory and slightly sweet dish of stir-fried cellophane noodles, glass noodles and vegetables that is popular in Korean cuisine. * ''Japchae'' is typically prepared with ''dangmyeon'' (), a type of cellophane noodles made from ...

– Korean dish made with

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* Kwetiau goreng – Chinese Indonesian stir-fried flat rice noodles (''kwetiau'' or ''shahe fen'') with garlic, shallots, beef, chicken or prawn, chili, vegetables and sweet soy sauce * Lo mein – American Chinese-style stir-fried wheat noodles * Mee goreng - fried noodles common in the Malay-speaking communities of Malaysia, Singapore and Sri Lanka * Mee siam – Malaysian and Singaporean dish of rice vermicelli in spicy, sweet and sour light gravy. Dry variations are also common. * Mie goreng – spicy stir-fried yellow wheat noodles common in

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* Mie goreng Aceh – hot and spicy stir-fried thick yellow wheat noodles from

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province, Indonesia * Pad thai – Thai-style stir-fried rice noodles with egg, fish sauce, and a combination of bean sprouts, shrimp, chicken, or tofu * Pancit bihon – Filipino stir-fried

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** Pancit estacion ** Pancit Malabon * Phat si-io – Thai dish of stir-fried wide rice noodles * Rat na – Thai dish of stir-fried wide rice noodles * Shanghai fried noodles * Singapore chow fun/Singapore-style rice vermicelli – not actually from Singapore; Cantonese dish of thin rice noodles stir-fried with curry powder, bean sprouts, barbecued pork, and vegetables * Singapore chow mein – same as above, but with wheat noodles *

Yaki udon is a Japanese stir-fried dish consisting of thick, smooth, white udon noodles mixed with a soy-based sauce, meat (usually pork), and vegetables. It is similar to yakisoba, which involves a similar stir-frying technique using ramen-style wheat ...

– Japanese stir-fried thick wheat

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noodles *

Yakisoba (, , ) is a Japanese noodle Stir frying, stir-fried dish. Usually, soba noodles are made from buckwheat flour, but soba in are Chinese-style noodles () made from wheat flour, typically flavored with a condiment similar to Worcestershire sauce ...

– Japanese-style fried wheat or buckwheat noodles, flavoured with '' sosu'' (Japanese Worcestershire sauce) and served with pork, cabbage, and beni shōga; often served at festival stalls or as a filling for sandwiches

Pan-fried

* Hong Kong fried noodles – Hong Kong-style dish consisting of flour noodles pan-fried until crispy, and served together with vegetables, chicken or seafood

Deep-fried

* Fried crunchy

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noodles – deep-fried strips of wonton wrappers, served as an appetizer with duck sauce and hot mustard at American Chinese restaurants * '' I fu mie'', Chinese Indonesian dried fried ''yi mein'' noodle served in sauce with vegetables, chicken or prawns. * '' Mie kering'', Chinese-influenced deep-fried crispy noodle from Makassar, Indonesia. Also known as ''kurum kurum'' in part of Pakistan. * '' Mi krop'' – Thai dish consisting of crispy deep-fried rice noodles.

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