noodlemania en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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Etymology
From noodle + -mania.
Meanings
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(informal, rare, uncountable) Love of noodles.
On the neighbor islands, noodlemania prevails...
1999, Jeanette Foster, Jocelyn K. Fujii, Michael Shapiro, Frommer's 2000 Hawaii, page 15:He backs that up by recalling the impact he had on his cooking partner at the French Culinary Institute: The partner dropped out. Mr. Chang persisted and it paid off: Craft, Mercer Kitchen, Park Hyatt Tokyo (to refine his noodlemania), and Café Boulud employed him before he opted for independence via a lowly noodle bar.
2007 May 18, Robin Finn, “Rising Star Knows What, Not Who, Is Cooking”, in New York Times: