"Peter Dy" > wrote:
> "Tippi" > wrote in message
> [ . . . ]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.
>
In Thailand, "rice sticks" refers to rice vermicceli, AFAIK

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