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Noodle 3: Round 2

The original Noodle 3 blog can be found here.

I adjusted the sauce recipe from last time. Last time, I thought the sauce was doing too much. So I simplified it to a 2:1:1 ratio of peanut butter to sesame oil to soy sauce. It was perfect. I topped it off with a cucumber (one lil pickling one), sesame seeds and Laoganma spicy chili crisp.

This isn't the end of my journey with peanut sauce or Wu-Mu Silver Line Noodles (still have some left in the package).
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