No, not a plate of writhing Klingon bloodworms, but the earliest empirical evidence that noodles originated in China around 4,000 years ago. Houyuan Lu, of the Chinese Academy of Science in Beijing and his colleagues found the ancient noodles preserved in an overturned, sealed bowl at an archaeological site near the Yellow River in northwestern China.
This discovery disproves other suggestions that noodles were first made in the Middle East and introduced to Italy by the Arabs during the Middle Ages.
Remember, if someone ever asks you the origin of anything, the most likely answer is China. The Chinese have an ancient culture with a remarkable history of wisdom and discovery, which makes their adoption of a bankrupt system of government such as Communism all the more incongruous.
Didn't Confucious say something about squandering your wisdom?
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It is an odd irony, isn't it?
I know. It's one of my goals in life to bring down the Great Wall, and turn China into a democratic republic, much like President Reagan brought down the Berlin Wall & ended the Cold War.
My daughter and I went to Korea and Japan this past June. We were told that we could visit China for just $300 round trip, but we couldn't do it due to the schedule we had to keep. I would LOVE to have seen the Great Wall before you knock it down.
I wonder if we boiled those noodles if they would just disentigrate? I'm sure they would.
J.D.: I think 4,000 year old noodles would disintegrate if you look at them funny.
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