Shanghai-ish Cold Noodles and Ginger Beer Taste Test Good Eats! A Weekly Roundup from Serious Eats

Every week we bring you our favorite posts on cooking and eating from our friends at Serious Eats. This week: a bowl of seriously beautiful noodles, a very thorough taste test of ginger beers and sodas, a bowl of lime soup, and another delicious dish of tofu.

• Eat for Eight Bucks: Shanghai-ish Cold Noodles - Cheap, delicious, and beautiful.

• The Serious Eats Ginger Beer Taste Test - Find out which ginger sodas made the cut.

• The Pastes of Provence: Know Your Tapenade, Pistou, Aïoli, and More - A good introduction to the flavorful, easy pastes of Provence.

• Dinner Tonight: Lime Soup (Sopa de Lima) - Looks refreshing and nourishing.

• Seriously Asian: Tofu Dengaku - Miso-glazed tofu.

Previous Good Eats: Gyoza Maker and Why Wine in Plastic Cups Is a No-No

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Comments (2)

For really delicious cold noodles, I recommend Korean naengmyun made with buckwheat noodles. It can be made mild of spicy with an iced (with ice cubes broth) and topped with sliced beef or pork, hard-boiled egg, sliced cucumber and sliced pear for a savory-sweet flavor.

I'm always struggling to find hearty yet summery meals to make. This one caught my eye and I had to try it out. Being a poorer college student, the price point was right and considering I had a lot of the base ingredients, a generous two portions cost me about $8 for veggies (carrot, zuccini, sprouts, & fresh corn) & proteins (egg, turkey, & tiny shrimp). The best thing about it in my book was that I used two packages of $0.10 Top Ramon that is a staple in any college students life, but jazzed up like nothing else before. This will certainly be on my new summer rotation.