Talk:Wonton noodles

Wantan OR Wan Tan?

Wantan Mee: 10,300 hits in Google Search.

Wan Tan Mee: 936 hits in Google Search.

I would say neither. I have never even seen the first word spelt "wanton". I have always seen it spelt "wonton" (English "won" + English "ton"), at least here in Canada.

Maybe this is a Singaporean spelling…—Gniw (Wing) 08:27, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, the only time I've seen such a spelling is in Singapore and Malaysia, probably due to a larger Hokkien influence there.--Yuje 09:49, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Flounder used in soup?

Is dried flounder(a fish) used to prepare the soup in Hong Kong or is it a typo error?Wai Hong 12:18, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Requested move 2007

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I think the title of this article should be changed to "Wonton Noodle", since it is a Cantonese-based dish (and not Singaporean) instead of just having that redirect.

I'm sure more people recognize it as such also (there are more hits for it on Google).

I am unsure about the procedures for changing an article name and its repercussions, anyone else want to make that change? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Kelvie (talk • contribs) 20:50, 5 March 2007 (UTC).

• Oppose. The grammatically correct title would be wonton noodle, not wonton Noodle. However, I'm not convinced this would be an uncontroversial move. When I, an American, hear "wonton noodle", I think of a wonton — not of a soup containing both wontons and noodles! Wonton noodle soup seems more logical to me... but that's still ambiguous, since it could apply equally well to any soup containing wontons and noodles. If the dish has an unambiguous name, I say we should use it. In other words, I think the page is fine where it is. --Quuxplusone 04:46, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

• Support. I'm from both Singapore and Hong Kong, and I agree - 'Wonton noodle' is the correct name and the article should be there, with 'wanton noodle' as a redirect if at all. There's no need for 'soup' in the title, as wonton noodles are properly served with soup. Only the Singaporean/Malaysian version comes in soup and non-soup varieties. The page should be moved. InfernoXV 15:10, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

• Comment exactly what language is wanton in wanton mee? if it is not english, is there another of a dish with the same... combination? Chensiyuan 15:34, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Cantonese. Not as far as I know. Go AC =) InfernoXV 18:33, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

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This article has been renamed from Wanton mee to wanton noodle as the result of a move request. --Stemonitis 16:40, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Made from what?

Are they made from wheat flour? Badagnani 04:53, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

Exactly. I can't believe we have an entire article about this edible, yet it is still unclear what it's actually made of. "Flour" is not an ingredient as much as a form of some ingredient. (One might as well have written "grain" as an ingredient.) In my mind, the most basic difference between various kinds of noodles and pasta are which plant they are made of (wheat, rice, corn, or what?). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 115.133.237.62 (talk) 04:12, 3 January 2015 (UTC)

Requested move

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The result of the proposal was consensus to move to Wonton noodles. --RegentsPark (sticks and stones) 20:40, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

Wonton noodle → Wonton noodles — Grammatically correct title Nil Einne (talk) 21:09, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

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• Support as nom. Personally I prefer Wan Tan Mee, but since the last RM finished with the current title and although I'm unconvinced by the arguments I'm doubtful we'll get consensus to change it to that. However Wonton noodle doesn't seem particularly grammatically correct to me, the plural should be used for a noodle dish called 'noodle'/'noodles'. Take a look at Noodle for example. And an internet search shows most people either refer to 'Wonton noodle soup' (which is appropriate) or 'Wonton noodles' as well as a few food outlets called 'Wonton noodle restaurant' etc (again fine for a restaurant) not 'Wonton noodle' as a dish. Some may suggest noodle soup instead but this would mee the article would need to be split for the soup and non-soup variety. Note that we give the literal meaning of the Cantonese name in the article as 'wonton noodles'! Nil Einne (talk) 21:10, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

• Obvious oppose; my comments from the last RM still seem reasonable to me. The article pretty consistently uses "wonton noodle" (not "wonton noodles") throughout. It's possible that the naming is a regional thing, but "wonton noodle" seems as natural to this American layman as "ravioli" (not "raviolis"). In this context "wonton noodle" is a mass noun, like "soup". For comparison, beef noodle soup is often referred to as "beef noodle", and never as "beef noodles". --Quuxplusone (talk) 01:05, 23 January 2010 (UTC)

• It doesn't particularly matter what this article uses, that's intentional as the article should follow the title, is easily changed and is inherently part of the move discussion, as it is for every move discussion. In any case, it's not entirely correct as the article gives the literal meaning of the name as 'wonton noodles' as I remarked when opening the move discussion. (It also uses wonton noodles in another instances). Can you show some references of sources that actually refer to a dish called 'wonton noodle'? As I mentioned above, I can find plenty of places the refer to wonton noodle soup (which is appropriate the same as say apple pie) and wonton noodle house or similar (again appropriate, the same as you may have a noodle house) but nothing that refers to 'wonton noodle' as a dish. I don't particularly understand your reference to your comments in the earlier move. You earlier said wonton noodle would be better then wonton Noodle. Well I think we all agree with that, it's no an issue. You also said you would be happy with the current name, except the article was moved anyway so that's no longer relevant. If you would prefer to move the article back to the old title that's fine, but I don't consider it a relevant reason to oppose, the only issue at hand is whether wonton noodle or wonton noodles is a better title. You then made some remarks about how when someone says wonton noodle you think of a wonton not a noodle dish containing wontons. I don't particularly understand this since a wonton is clearly not a noodle, not even close. Do you mean you think of a wonton containing noodles? If so surely that would be a noodle wonton not a wonton noodle. If anything, a wonton noodle would be a noodle made out of wontons, but I'm not particularly sure how you'd make noodles out of wontons anyway. You then made some remarks about how wonton noodle soup is ambigious since it could logically refer to any dish containing wontons and noodles. But that seems fairly irrelevant since it could apply to many dishes. In any case, any standard dish containing wan tan and noodles may very well be called wonton noodles (or whatever depending on where you live). Also as I've already remarked, I don't think call it 'wonton noodle soup' is a good idea because it's clearly inaccurate to call the Malaysian and Singaporean dish a wonton noodle soup requiring a split of the article which I'm personally not in favour of (you can get a soupy version of wan tan mee in Malaysia and I would presume Singapore). Nil Einne (talk) 12:16, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

• Support. Maybe it's an American thing but most varieties of English I'm familiar with use "noodles" in the plural when referring to a dish or a type of noodle (except in the adjective form, of course), i.e. "wonton noodles" (but "wonton noodle soup" — used as an adj.). Check out the other articles in Category:Chinese noodles or Category:Noodles.
  I wouldn't mind wan tan mee either but, if it's a toss-up between the HK usage and the Singapore usage, the HK usage should be used since it matches what is used more frequently outside of East/SE Asia. — AjaxSmack 07:52, 24 January 2010 (UTC)

• Comment To try and solicit more feedback, I listed the move in the talk pages or noticeboards for WikiProject Singapore, WikiProject China and WikiProject SEA. I did not list it at WikiProject HK or Food and drink as they already have systems to automatically list requested moves for articles under them. I also just added the article to WikiProject Malaysia who also have such a system and so should add it soon. Could an admin hold off on a final decision for a few more days in case more people take part. Nil Einne (talk) 12:40, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

• Support. I'd call it "wonton noodles" here in Singapore. — Cheers, JackLee ^–talk– 14:31, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

• Neutral Oppose I don't believe it has been brought up in the discussion yet but this move appears to contradict the guidelines of WP:SINGULAR. Names are supposed to be singular except wirh they are exclusively used in the plural (like scissors). Since noodle is regularly used in both a singular and plural form a move doesn't appear appropriate.--Labattblueboy (talk) 19:14, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

• Are you aware of any evidence that noodle is regularly used in singular form to refer to noodle dishes? So far the only example that has been given is beef noodle. Note that I'ved looked at Noodle and Category:Noodles and subcats thereof and the only other example I came across is Cart noodle (and noodle soup which I've already explained is different). It is perhaps appropriate to talk about a noodle in the article on noodles because in that case you can talk about what a noodle is. This isn't an article on a specific type of noodle (okay wonton noodles are a specific type of noodle but the article is on the noodle dish probably because they aren't used for anything else), but a noodle dish, which was with every single other noodle dish always has more then one noodle so calling it wonton noodles is appropriate. A similar example may be baked beans for example even if we have an article on bean (and could have a baked bean casserole). There's also French fries which is perhaps an even more interesting article since even though people would refer to a french fry in some cases (e.g. can I have a fry/french fry, do you want the last fry/french fry) I would personally find it odd for the article to be called french fry which is perhaps why french fries was chosen. Also I would note that so far I haven't see any evidence 'wonton noodle' is ever used. P.S. I hope my comments here and above don't come across as aggressive, it's not my intention to try and force this move or attack other editors but as this is a discussion I do feel it appropriate to respond when I feel there is an appropriate point to be made. Nil Einne (talk) 13:37, 4 February 2010 (UTC)

• Although I feel that that WP:SINGULAR does apply, the vast majority of noodle articles use the plural. I recognize that standardization is more important than my own personal prospective and if someone wants to take on that issue they can do so in a mass move. In the mean time, its not appropriate for me to limit a move that would bring a when the standard appears for the topic appears to be otherwise.--Labattblueboy (talk) 14:10, 4 February 2010 (UTC)

Discussion

Any additional comments:

Just to clear things up ravioli is the plural form. The singular form is raviolo according to the article. It is correct to call Wonton noodle a mass noun in the context of a discussion about the Wonton noodle. If I have a bowl of noodles, I cannot say correctly I have a bowl of noodle unless there is only one big noodle in the bowl. At a restaurant I order Wonton noodles not Wonton noodle unless I only wish to have one noodle. –droll [chat] 07:10, 23 January 2010 (UTC)

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Wonton noodle in Vietnam

I'm from Vietnam, and as far as I know, wonton noodle is pretty popular here, especially in the southern area, where a large number of Chinese-origin Vietnamese lives with a somewhat Chinese style. It's call "mì hoành thánh" or "mì vằn thắn", which "hoành thánh" and "vằn thắn" are just borrowed words, coming from the pronunciation of "wonton". Faragona (talk) 16:02, 8 September 2014 (UTC)

Malaysian variant

I don't think the Malaysian variant description is particularly good. From most recipes I've seen, as well as simply the look of the noodles at least in KL, I don't the distinguishing feature is the use of oyster sauce for the noodles. This may be common, but the more important ingredient which gives it the look and partially the taste is the use of dark/thick caramel sauce (sometimes called thick or dark soy sauce, but not to be confused with what's normally called dark soy sauce by Chinese in most places). Nil Einne (talk) 09:52, 20 June 2016 (UTC)

I agree and there actually isn't so many "sub" varients of wanton mee in Malaysia. All the variants listed in the Malaysian section are all just depending on how the shop or hawker decides to function their business. Sim Jack Chan (talk) 09:23, 5 April 2022 (UTC)