The Real Story of Pasta: China, Italy, and How Noodles Took Over the World

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  @OTRontheroad · 2 years ago (edited) · pinned

  A couple important notes, then location pins. <br>Usually, we go through several stages of the final edit- catching any accidental mistakes or issues and then fixing until it&apos;s ready to go. But our edit computer had some overheating issues and so we had to cut that process a bit shorter than usual this week, so there are two things that I want to quickly clarify, one major and one minor.<br>- The big one first: I cut a segment from the Japanese ramen section after the story of Bodhisena, going through a few other origin stories of the dish. It was cut because I felt like it went on too long and started to drag (and this is a long enough video already!) but on re-watch I definitely want to make clearer that this was meant to be in an obvious mythology segment- which means I&apos;m in no way trying to declare the Bodhisena story to be confirmed fact. It&apos;s a legend. It MIGHT be true- but the thing about Japanese history is it&apos;s so well recorded and preserved that sometimes it almost makes research harder; there are a lot of contradictory stories. It&apos;s also important to point out that there&apos;s a ton of misinformation published about ramen&apos;s origin, mainly because during the Edo period (17th to 19th century) the dish was widely rebranded as Chinese Soba. So when it shows up as Ramen again in the early 1900s, it&apos;s sometimes confused as a new thing. It wasn&apos;t. But the origins are muddy and there&apos;s compelling stories covering several centuries and since I cut the longer segment, I should have added a few lines back in at least making this more clear. <br>- The small one: I understand that mispronunciations will happen, especially in videos like this where I&apos;m trying to cover...I don&apos;t know, words in like 30 different languages (and I&apos;m from Virginia- I don&apos;t even speak English correctly). But in the line about Spanish soup noodles, that&apos;s just the wrong word- it should be Sopa de Fideo, not Fideos. My mistake- would have fixed it if the computer could have handled another render.<br><br>All that said, here are the pins:<br>-Lanzhou La Mian: <a href="https://maps.app.goo.gl/6xjQh9hHawfX5csx6">https://maps.app.goo.gl/6xjQh9hHawfX5csx6</a><br>-Tibetan Thukpa: <a href="https://maps.app.goo.gl/AQQm6pYKgWGJscac6">https://maps.app.goo.gl/AQQm6pYKgWGJscac6</a><br>-Italian Pasta: <a href="https://maps.app.goo.gl/yADo5GGLuFY4mMCX8">https://maps.app.goo.gl/yADo5GGLuFY4mMCX8</a><br>-Persian Ash Reshteh: <a href="https://maps.app.goo.gl/smjPqMXhRUDDVHwQ8">https://maps.app.goo.gl/smjPqMXhRUDDVHwQ8</a><br>-Amazing Ramen: <a href="https://maps.app.goo.gl/L2j9yc4BL5tSJUg18">https://maps.app.goo.gl/L2j9yc4BL5tSJUg18</a><br>-Less Amazing Ramen: <a href="https://maps.app.goo.gl/eA1QwbTo5CpAm9pW7">https://maps.app.goo.gl/eA1QwbTo5CpAm9pW7</a><br>-and as always, our filming location (with the Pad Thai at the end): <a href="https://maps.app.goo.gl/6B1JPuiRLJJ8eXVx9">https://maps.app.goo.gl/6B1JPuiRLJJ8eXVx9</a><br>...and as a bonus location, for anyone in Italy, here&apos;s Badr&apos;s Moroccan restaurant: <a href="https://maps.app.goo.gl/vquDMu7p6HkZX1hq8">https://maps.app.goo.gl/vquDMu7p6HkZX1hq8</a>

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  @FactoryProcessess · 1 year ago

  This video was like, my entire therapy session. &nbsp;I came in thinking I had specific issues, but now I realize my problems are actually just a deep-seated noodle deficiency. Send help (and noodles).

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  @space3828 · 2 years ago

  an hour video on the history of noodles is exactly what i want to see on my youtube feed.

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  @Niksg9424 · 2 years ago

  I literally just said to my wife &quot;I&apos;m trying to find something to watch, there&apos;s nothing&quot;<br><br>Then literally one minute after uploading, I saw this. Fantastic. I love yall

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  @NeroTheBoop · 1 year ago

  As an italian I love to see that since thousands of years ago, no matter the location or culture, we&apos;ve always loved noodles

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  @kurosujiomake · 2 years ago

  Im was born in the city of lanzhou and love that its regional foods are finally becoming more well known around the world. For reasons im not able to return to my hometown, so im always happy when restaurants serving the food i grew up with shows up outside of china

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  @InsanePandaWanderer · 2 years ago (edited)

  I live in a Pakistani household, I&apos;m eating ramen noodles atm and I put a bunch of random spices and bunch of random mexican salsas, dried green onions, dried onions, dried shrimp, and idk whatever the heck I found in the kitchen. The taste is absolutely delicious while I&apos;m also high out of my mind, I fell down the rabbit hole of noodles and I am here.

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  @robertlee4172 · 1 year ago

  I worked in a Chinese noodle factory when I was 13. Fresh, dried, and wonton covers. It was fun and enlightening.<br>Over the years I worked in commercial kitchens, while in college, and even managed to score a stint in a hotel resort, during the many recessions of the 90s. Food history is so interesting to me.

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  @castcrus · 2 years ago

  As a Chinese who makes &nbsp;gua mian(cut noodles), chow mien, pho, and fresh pasta with duck eggs at home, I thank you for the in-depth video of the history of these dishes I make.

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  @RemnantCult · 2 years ago

  I love how people found ways to eat grain in so many different form factors for practicality, storage, and what I&apos;d imagine for having something more exciting to eat. Oatmeal, porridge, bread, and of course noodles of a thousand types. We could just be boiling rice and wheat and calling it a day but nope and that&apos;s a wonderful thing.

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  @serene4961 · 1 year ago

  Does anyone else look up the history of foods while eating them? It adds to the enjoyment

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  @lilchinesekidchen · 2 years ago

  interesting! as a chinese speaker, I was always under the impression that noodles in chinese culture came first before bread, &nbsp;based on the fact that the word for noodle (Mian) is the base word for all wheat products, and all other wheat product names are compounds words that use the word “Mian”. for instance “mian fun” (literally noodle powder) = flour, “Mian bao” (literally noodle bundles) = bread

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