How Are Noodles Made?

But Why: A Podcast for Curious Kids

Vermont Public

Nature, Language, Kids & Family, Science

4.4 • 4.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2019

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

This week, we answer a question from 4-year-old Hugo in Burlington, Vt. Hugo wants to know how noodles are made. But he's about to get more than he bargained for!

For this episode we visit a restaurant called M.Y. China, in San Francisco, CA to watch executive chef Tony Wu hand-pull 16,000 noodles in 2 minutes. The restaurant's owner, chef Martin Yan of the PBS show Yan Can Cook narrates the action. And to give us some historical context, Jen Lin-Liu, author of On the Noodle Road: From Beijing to Rome with Love and Pasta, shares her insight.

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0:00.0	16,000 strengths of Nudo, totally done by Hen, you never see anything like that.
0:08.3	This is a human parcel machine.
0:10.9	Look at that.
0:11.9	Look at this.
0:12.9	Look at that.
0:13.9	This is Hen McNudo, the best.
0:30.0	This is But Why, a podcast for curious kids from Vermont Public Radio.
0:42.6	I'm Jane Lindholm, the host and creator of this show, and we are hitting a very special
0:48.0	milestone today.
0:50.4	This is our 100th episode.
0:53.9	100 episodes of remarkable questions from you, our amazing listeners, all over the world,
1:00.1	and 100 episodes of interesting, sometimes surprising answers.
1:05.1	Everything from how babies are made, to why flamingos stand on one leg, to what the end
1:09.8	of the world might feel like, to whether or not there are underground cities, to why
1:14.4	it itches when you get a mosquito bite, what makes tape sticky, and why Americans call
1:19.9	soccer soccer when most of the rest of the world calls it football.
1:24.6	I could go on, but that would take up the whole episode.
1:27.8	We've gotten more than 5,000 questions from you since Melody Bodet and I started this
1:32.4	show three and a half years ago, and we have heard from kids in all 50 US states, eight
1:38.9	Canadian provinces, and 59 different countries.
1:43.7	So really, this is not our 100th episode, it's your 100th episode.
1:49.6	You are the engine that powers but why, with your curiosity and your listening.
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