Rice noodle dishes are some of the most popular at Asian restaurants—pad see ew, pad Thai, pho, and mei fun—but cooking them at home can be tricky if you’re not familiar with their quirks. Don’t worry ...

Lai fun are a short and thick rice noodle often used in soups. Ho fun (or he fun) are very wide and flat rice noodles often stir-fried with soy sauce or used in soups.

Guangxi rice noodles come in round and flat forms, with round noodles often extruded and flat ones such as Nanning's noodle variations made using wet rice flour. Southeast Asian rice noodles ...