Skip to Main Content Set weather Back To Main Menu Close Customize Your Weather Set Your Location: Enter City and State or Zip Code Submit Subscribe Updated: Aug. 29, 2019, 9:52 a.m. | Published: Nov. 01, 2018, 5:45 a.m. By Michael Russell | The Oregonian/OregonLive Se Ko makes noodles at the original Du Kuh Bee, 12590 S.W. First Street, Beaverton. Photo: The Oregonian/file Don't Edit You don't have to travel far to find hand-pulled noodles in Portland. At restaurants, food carts and Korean dives from Beaverton to Happy Valley, chefs spin, slap and stretch fat lumps of dough into six-foot strings of tender noodles, then slice these giant cat's cradles into stir fries and soups. In Western China, cooks have made la mian, literally "pulled noodles," for hundreds of years. Today, a dramatic version of that noodle-making style can be found at restaurants throughout China and the world. Even...