a dipping sauce in the summer months, or in hot dishes and soups when the temperature is cooler. Udon dishes include kitsune udon, Nabeyaki udon, curry udon, and yaki udon. However, sara udon is made using a different kind of noodle which is crispy. Harusame are glass noodles made from potato starch. Tokoroten are jelly-like slices of Kanten with a rectangular cross-section. See also Champon, a noodle soup of Japanese-Chinese origin Chinese noodles Instant noodles Korean noodles List of noodle dishes List of noodles Sapporo Ichiban Yakisoba, a popular noodle dish References Japanese inventions