xi'an tofu and noodles

Chang-an Spicy Tofu: Soft tofu served with house sauce, hot oil sauce, and cilantro.


Liang Pi Cold Skin Noodles: Bouncy and chewy hand-pulled wheat noodles with cilantro, wheat gluten, bean sprouts, cucumber, and an amazingly flavorful chili sauce.
Both from Xi'an Famous Foods in Flushing, New York.

Mizuna Soba

An experiment with a different type of leafy green, mizuna. Mizuna with soba noodles.

korean buffet feast

A cheap buffet platter from Woorjiip, in New York. Clockwise from top left: vegetable rice, glass noodles, vegetable and kim chi pancakes, inari sushi, fried nori roll, bok choy, shitakes, tofu, chili somen noodles.

kim chi six ways

Six kinds of complimentary kim chi from Sunrise House in Toronto (clockwise from left): bean sprouts, potatoes & carrots, seaweed, glass noodles, cucumber, cabbage.

korean ramen with rice cakes

Ramen noodles with rice cakes and vegetables, in a pool of not-too-hot chili sauce, from Thumbs-Up Korean Food Restaurant in Toronto.

Malaysian curry noodle soup

Since people liked the previous posts, one more from Happy Buddha vegetarian restaurant (Flushing chinatown in New York). A rare vegan version of Malaysian curry (usually it has shrimp paste).

Asparagus on a noodle nest

From Vegetarian Planet by Didi Emmons

Mee Grop

Rice noodles with tofu and vegetables, a powerful sweet, hot & sour sauce (tamarind, bean sauce, vinegar, sugar, chili flakes, soy sauce, and lime juice), and topped with red pepper and cilantro - a flavor explosion!
From Nancie McDermott's Real Vegetarian Thai

acorn noodles with pistachio sauce

Acorn noodles with fried tofu, stir-fried bok choy, mushrooms, and carrots, topped with Asian pistachio sauce.

mushroom pepper & carrot cilantro spring rolls

The mushroom spring rolls had black rice noodles, shitake mushrooms, cabbage, black pepper, and a bit of soy sauce.
The carrot cilantro ones had white rice noodles and cabbage.
Not pictured: tamarind and peanut dipping sauces.
Also not pictured: surrounding summer picnic perfection on Governor's Island in New York.

Soba 2 ways

Quick dinner idea: Boil some soba noodles and add some veggies (snow peas, edamame) for the last minute of cooking. Drain and rinse, then mix with miso broth and tofu cubes for a soup, or toss with tamari and rice vinegar and sprinkle with some furikake (nori flakes, sesame seeds, salt, and sugar) for noodles.

asian rice and lentil patties

rice and lentil patties over chinese noodles, with sweet and sour vegetable sauce and cilantro
recipe from vegweb

sesame noodles

noodles with chili sauce, sesame oil, fresh basil, carrot, cucumber, scallions, and sesame seeds, served cold
from Suzie's Soba in Baltimore

cold soba salad

cold soba with cucumbers and cilantro sauce (cilantro, lemon juice, peanut butter)

cambodian vermicelli curry

potatoes, bamboo shoots, onion, water chestnuts, and rice vermicelli in coconut milk, lemongrass, and galangal curry
from Cambodian Cuisine, in Brooklyn

soba noodles with vegetables and teriyaki sauce

usal pav

South Indian dish of white beans topped with onions, cilantro, sauces & Indian noodles
from the restaurant Dimple in Manhattan

drunken noodles, panang curry, spinach on fire

drunken noodles (flat rice noodles with vegetables, tofu, thai basil, and chili pepper), panang curry with vegetables and tofu, and spinach on fire (sauted spinach in black bean sauce) at the Sala Thai restaurant in Bethesda, Maryland