mein ancient chinese noodles were dug up suspected to be over 4000 years old, http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/ind...I-1-20051013-13412700-bc-china-oldnoodles.xml
Pretty cool stuff. PS I think the word you mean in the title is "mien" (noodles) Chow ("tsao" in Mandarin) means "stir-fried"
i actually didnt know it ment stir fried in manderin, do you speak any cantonese? or province variations? and oops i spelled mien wrong, thanks, peace,
Actually you spelled 'Chow mein' correctly (which I think is from the Wade-Giles system), but I'm assuming that's how it's pronounced in Cantonese (I was taught Mandarin long ago). I know very little Chinese, and like 4-5 characters. They're almost vestigial components of my distant past.
i love chinese literiture. and all of its ancient art/teachings/books, even down to simple charactures, there are thousangs of symbols, many are family symbols and rare ones that many dont know of, some of the symbols are lost aswell, peace,
When thing I love about living in China is that food is so dirt cheap. A $10 steak in the U.S. will cost you $2 in China: a bowl of noodles 50 cents.