AHC - Make Noodles a staple food in Indian culture

Don't try to generalise when you talk about India

With a POD way before the 1900s, what would be the best way to have Noodles replace Rice as a staple food in Indian culture?

Which Indian culture? Tamil, Malayalee and sinhalese cultures have a rice vermicelli dish eaten with curry as a breakfast staple.
 
Which Indian culture? Tamil, Malayalee and sinhalese cultures have a rice vermicelli dish eaten with curry as a breakfast staple.

I meant in general so Noodles end up being a staple for the whole of the Indian Subcontinent in place of Rice via some ATL Chinese / East Asian influence.
 
I meant in general so Noodles end up being a staple for the whole of the Indian Subcontinent in place of Rice via some ATL Chinese / East Asian influence.

Given how different various Indian cultures are from one another I doubt this would be likely. What is popular in one region may not be common at all in the rest of the subcontinent. You're asking us to change the dietary customs of an area more diverse than all of Europe.
 
I meant in general so Noodles end up being a staple for the whole of the Indian Subcontinent in place of Rice via some ATL Chinese / East Asian influence.

But rice is at least as important, if not more important, than Noodles in southern China and Cantonese cuisine, due to the fact that Rice grows in the south, and wheat/millet grows in the north. So what you're really looking for is for the cuisine of the Beijing area to be applied to the Indian continent, and that'll be difficult because rice grows very well in the Ganges basin (and generally large river basins, hence it generally being the staple for Thai, Vietnamese and Burmese as well). Rice noodles might be able to become more widespread, but that's a different matter from 'Chinese-style' noodles.
 
Given how different various Indian cultures are from one another I doubt this would be likely. What is popular in one region may not be common at all in the rest of the subcontinent. You're asking us to change the dietary customs of an area more diverse than all of Europe.

Still, we are talking about a staple that spread from China to the rest of East Asia / parts of Southeast Asia to as far west as Central Asia (Lagman) and Iran (Reshte), spawning many variations along the way.
 
But rice is at least as important, if not more important, than Noodles in southern China and Cantonese cuisine, due to the fact that Rice grows in the south, and wheat/millet grows in the north. So what you're really looking for is for the cuisine of the Beijing area to be applied to the Indian continent, and that'll be difficult because rice grows very well in the Ganges basin (and generally large river basins, hence it generally being the staple for Thai, Vietnamese and Burmese as well). Rice noodles might be able to become more widespread, but that's a different matter from 'Chinese-style' noodles.

The Indian noodles I mentioned earlier are rice noodles. Southern chinese cuisine also makes use of rice noodles.

As for staples in India North India actually has wheat and millet as staples alongside rice.

I think the OP doesn't really have a clear idea of the diversity of either India or China
 
Still, we are talking about a staple that spread from China to the rest of East Asia / parts of Southeast Asia to as far west as Central Asia (Lagman) and Iran (Reshte), spawning many variations along the way.

But as I've said South India does have rice noodle dishes. Indian food's pretty diverse because of the huge variation in climate and religious dietary restrictions.
 
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