That’s why when the weather gets cold, we don’t spend time mourning summer—we put on a sweater and we go eat noodle soup.

SHINKAMIGOTO, Japan >> A town in Nagasaki prefecture’s Goto Islands last year set up a government department devoted to the area’s specialty noodles, Goto udon.

Chinese chef Li Enhai has broken his own Guinness World Record with the thinnest handmade noodles at 0.18 mm. His ...