What are Longkou Noodles?

Longkou noodles is the simple calling for longkou vermicelli noodles, as we know, longkou vermicelli origin is in Zhaoyuan,near longkou port,  historically the noodles were shipped through the port of Longkou and thus the noodles are known and marketed as Longkou vermicelli, the vermicelli noodles is made by mungbean starch or pea starch, and thin as hair, also called slender noodle.

What's Longkou vermicelli made of?

Longkou Vermicelli is well known for the good quality in all over the world,the origin of longkou vermicelli lies in Zhaoyuan,Yantai city,shandong province,China, people use mungbean starch to make longkou vermicelli by hands in tradtionally ,but the price for green mungbean starch is very expensive, people use pea starch to instead of mungbean starch, the quality is almost the same, so the ingredients of longkou vermicelli is pea starch and water, in order to make it soft or quick cook, you can add little potato starch , we called instant vermicelli, because it only need 2-3minutes to cook , this high quality vermicelli is mainly export to Japan or EU countries; now also have bean vermicelli produced mixed with corn starch or wheat starch, someone called them corn vermicelli or wheat vermicelli, these vermicelli noodles are popular in Southeast Country, for example:Malaysia, Philippines, Vietnam.