"We're making potato starch noodles. They're basically noodles made from potato starch."
As he scrubbed the dirt from the surface of the potatoes, Lin Chen gave him a brief explanation.
"In our Great Xia, what we make from wheat flour are called noodles. They can be thin, wide, hand-pulled, knife-cut, shaved... they come in all sorts of shapes."
"But if they're made from starches—like rice, sweet potato, or potato starch—we call them by a different name to distinguish them from wheat noodles. That's because these starch-based noodles have a smooth, slick texture, unlike the chewy bite of wheat noodles."
"You can make noodles from starch?"
Andre scratched his head, unable to imagine what that kind of texture would be like.
It seemed that every time he came over to eat with Lin, he learned something completely new. It gave him the same fresh sense of discovery he'd felt exploring the jungle as a child.
