They range from food treats to little presents but probably the most bizarre is a daily pack of fresh egg noodles.

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Mix the cooked Egg Noodles in with the cheese mixture.

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Ramen noodle dishes such as tan tan men (whole-wheat egg noodles and spicy miso with pork and spicy homemade sausage), dumplings and hot tapas (locals line up for the duck-fat fried chicken) are local favorites.

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Isabella Rossellini, sporting a wig that appears to have been woven from cold egg noodles, plays Lady Port-Huntly, rich but legless, who runs a competition to discover, as the title suggests, the saddest music in the world.

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Cook the Egg Noodles until done.

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Or, tuck into the Australian-Swiss chef Mark Thommen's interpretation of spaetzle: Swiss noodles topped with a poached egg.

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Fortunately four to five meals per day of char kwey tiaw (fried noodles in soy sauce with egg and various additions), asam laksa (Penang's famous, indescribably good curry noodle soup), rojak (fruit and veggie salad in a sweet dark shrimp paste) and much, much more, goes down a lot easier than heavier Western foods.

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