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.

Rice vermicelli is a type of rice noodle, however, vermicelli has more of a circular shape compared to flat rice noodle varieties. Some vermicelli noodles may be listed as "rice noodles" in the ...