I have found reference to the Ho Fan noodle, they say it is similar to
Italian Fettuccine. There was reference to Gway-to, but these were much
smaller than what I liked. The ones I am talking about are more than
likely the same Ho Fan mixture but are slightly less than one inch wide
and 1/8 inch thick. they were not actually fried but sautéed in an oily
broth. Served with roast Duck or other meat dish. They could be similar
to spring roll wrapper dough and cut in strips. I did not mean to imply
the noodles were deep fat fried like spring rolls.

Peter Dy wrote:
>
> "Tippi" > wrote in message
> om...
> > wrote
> > > I believe he's referring to the rice noodle that Thai's call Guaytio.
> >
> > "Peter Dy" > wrote
> > > Cambodian: K'tieu (pork stock with rice noodles and typical SE Asian
> > > toppings)
> >
> > While reading this thread I suddenly have the answer to something that
> > had me puzzled. There is a dish called "gwai diu" in Cantonese
> > cooking, it is very similar to "Singapore noodles", except it is made
> > with the flat rice noodles (not rice vermicelli), and not spicy hot.
> > The name means nothing in Chinese so it must be a transliteration of
> > some name in another language. Generally it is regarded as a Malaysia
> > dish, so I thought it was a Malay word.
> >
> > Seeing the above two comments made me think of this again, because
> > this name seems to wide spread among South East Asia. Then I realized
> > what it was. I have seen in Vietnamese restaurents here in Toronto the
> > chinese term "gwo tiu", literally rice sticks.
>
> Interesting. Yeah, on the Thai rice noodle bags, they call them "rice
> sticks" in English.
>
> It is a Suchow term
> > that I've never encountered when I was in Hong Kong. (Suchow is a
> > "prefecture" in the Guahzhou province, with a very unique dialect and
> > culture and is the main Chinese influence of Vietnam, because of the
> > large number of immigrants to it.)
>
> You mean Chaozhou (north-eastern Guangdong), right? Of "Chiu Chow" cuisine
> fame. Suzhou is in Jiangsu province. In Chaozhou, they speak Fujianese
> (Minnan, Hokkien, Holo, etc.).
>
> Peter
>
> >
> > So Guaytio, K'tieu, gwai diu... all came from the Chinese for rice
> > noodles.