The smells of freshly made pastry, noodle soup and stir fry hang in the air.
By 2004, he opened his first restaurant, Momofuku Noodle Bar, and accolades piled up.
More traditional Filipino dishes, such as milkfish and thin noodle pancit, are also served.
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Then why buy a noodle that keeps its shape despite hours and hours of digestion?
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Former Pats running back Curtis Martin still remembers how much he enjoyed her chicken noodle soup.
When a local Cantonese speaker objected to the noodle-eating in bad Mandarin, a quarrel erupted.
Now, the trading nations of Asia are responding with their own noodle soup of discriminatory deals.
He sniffed the jasmine and hot noodle soup on a night street in Hanoi.
Who would have foreseen that noodle bars with communal tables (Wagamama) would be a worldwide hit?
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Food stalls sell beef-noodle soup, stinky tofu or the ubiquitous steamed pork dumplings.
The restaurant is waiting on its liquor license, and these oily noodle dishes cry out for beer.
The worm can be up to three feet long, and looks like a very long spaghetti noodle.
"We have one instant noodle, one package of instant noodle per day, that's all our meal, " she says.
Germans gave us frankfurter, hamburger, delicatessen, sauerkraut, noodle, pumpernickel, pretzel, kindergarden, dunk, dumb, loafer, bum, gabfest and slugfest.
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In early April, Beijing asked noodle makers to hold the line on prices.
Unfortunately, that is not at all what is expected by the government experts paid to noodle about such matters.
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He hired half a dozen of his colleagues to noodle ideas, the most promising of which was a general-purpose Internet search engine.
Dave leads fun food tours made on the fly from hundreds of hand-picked sandwich shops, pizzerias, bakeries and noodle houses.
Cold Asian noodle salads make sense, he says, because noodles keep well and even basic kitchens can make them tasty.
Such regional proposals, if given serious backing, would do much to cut through the tangle of Asia's noodle bowl of deals.
At the Sawyers' ramen spot, Noodle Cat, the Japanese plum wine vinegar adds depth to the dashi broth that flavors various dishes.
Certain products elicit a similar physiological kick, tripping the noodle's reward circuitry.
Most devotees of Cup Noodle did not investigate the mystery further.
In 1958 instant noodles went on the market, yellowish wormy bricks in cellophane bags, and were laughed at by fresh-noodle makers all over Japan.
Beyond its typical nod to high-end establishments at the Four Seasons and Mandarin Oriental, this year the list also included a few cheap and simple noodle joints.
The merits of which curry or noodle dish is tastiest are debated and blogged about, and top stalls have long queues at all times of the day.
Among the most memorable: a Cup Noodle ad in which the tables are turned on a horde of hungry cavemen in pursuit of dinosaur dinner.
As for Asia's noodle bowl of proliferating FTAs, a recent survey found only 22% of firms taking advantage of trading preferences offered by such agreements.
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At Whole Foods a noodle isn't just wheat and water in a plain package--it is the life's work of an Italian "authentic food artisan" named Gino Girolomoni.
Each has its own rules and administrative requirements, leading to a confusing spaghetti (or perhaps noodle soup) of preferential agreements, instead of the predictability that multilateralism promises.
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