What to Serve with Chinese Noodles: 33 ideas

What to Serve with Chinese Noodles: I love noodles (prefer it to rice!) so we eat it at home regularly. However, it's not the most nutritious being so carb heavy- here are the 33 Best Side Dishes for Chinese Noodles, to make a quick, healthy, and easy weeknight dinner.

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Chinese home-cooked meals focus on serving a balanced meal and usually include:

• 2-3 dishes (meat, vegetables , fish)
• a bowl of soup
• a bowl of rice or noodles

If you are looking for ideas as to what to serve with Chinese noodles (spicy noodles or otherwise), check out the list of Chinese side dishes below. (Divided into the categories mentioned above: Meat, Vegetables, Fish, and Soups. I'm skipping the rice as it would be too heavy to serve with noodles at home!)

Egg Drop Soup- whether it's the classic Chinese soup or the version with corn- is one of the most popular Chinese soups and a great choice to serve with noodles

This soup is a great way to add more veggies to your diet! You can use chicken stock or pork stock to make it.

A whole pumpkin goes a long way!- for more Asian pumpkin recipes to use up the rest, click here.

For more lettuce wrap recipes, click here.

If you're pan-frying the jiaozi, you may want something with less oil for a side dish, such as a refreshing cucumber or tomato salad.

Pickled cucumbers or pickled lettuce would help to digest the oily fried dumplings.

How to make

You can buy them in Asian supermarkets or make your own by mixing:

• 1 teaspoon of salt
• 1 Cup of white sugar
• 1 Cup of rice vinegar
• then pouring it over the julienned carrots and cucumbers.
• You'll need 3-4 carrots AND cucumber in total. Optional: throw in a few slices of ginger for flavour!)

Vegetable Stir-fry

I recommend a sauteed oyster-sauce green vegetable, such as Gai Lan (Chinese Broccoli) or Bak Choy, instead of pasta salad or green bean salad.

Personally, I wouldn't serve steamed greens with soup as the meal will be quite bland. However, if you have lighter tastebuds, you may like it!

You can also serve dumplings with a Cantonese favourite: sliced soy sauce chicken, char stew and siew yoke (roasted pork belly.)

If you want an easy no-fuss recipe for soy sauce chicken, click here.

For ways to use up roast chicken, such as leftover chicken congee, click here.

Nyonya food, or Peranakan food, is a fusion cuisine mixing both Chinese and Malay influences.

This is a zesty, sweet, and savory recipe that will bring some zing to the noodles! If you end up with too much herbs, here are some ways to use up lemongrass.

Although not a Chinese recipe, Filipino adobo is super delicious and goes with everything! You can also make adobo chicken wings!

This Baked Honey Garlic salmon is one of our favorite salmon recipes!

Or another of these popular Taiwanese bubble tea flavors!

Chinese people love to drink tea to wash down the oil of the meal. In particular, sour plum tea is drunk to help improve digestion! (I even have a jelly version of this traditional Chinese drink!)

This popular summer drink is common in all the East Asian countries: China, Japan, Korea etc- it's associated with summer as barley is believed to be cooling for one's body.

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