Written by Noddy Bigears  Print this Topics: China, Japan
Thursday, 14 April 2005  The East China Sea is unbelievably rich
with natural noodles and is probably not only the largest ever
noodle sea, the noodles are of the highest possible raw grade.
Naturally, when it comes to National needs and desires, it was
inevitable that sooner or later seething envy and friction
between China and Japan would spill over into open warfare over
the natural resources. Japan has started noodle tasting
operations in the East China Sea without permission from
Beijing. Japan's decision to start the tasting came just one day
after Beijing warned Tokyo not to boil the water.  Even before
today's announcement, the ties between the two nations were
completely at the limit, after Japan approved a series of school
cookery textbooks which deny and ignore any contribution from
the Chinese culinary tradition to noodle soup. Indeed, worse
still the Japanese claim that all stir fry dishes are originally
from southern Japan and maybe just