Sesame Peanut Cold Noodles

Cold noodle dishes fail on texture rather than flavor. The sauce is easy; keeping the noodles separate and springy rather than a single sticky mass is the part that takes attention.

That is entirely down to the cold rinse and the drain.

Rinse the noodles cold and let them drain until genuinely dry before the sauce touches them.

Wet noodles thin a peanut sauce into a puddle at the bottom of the bowl within two minutes.