Glass Noodles: Bean Thread or Mung Bean Vermicelli. Mung bean vermicelli are famously used in Thai salads, and âants climbing the treeâ â a Sichuan Chinese dish, made with minced pork.
Haboob is the Arabic term for a particularly intense type of dust storm caused by the downdraft from a thunderstorm. These storms are common in the Middle East, Africa and even North America, although they usually aren't called that here.
Rain falling on hot rocks can cause them to shatter and the resulting fragments and rubble strewn over the desert floor is further eroded by the wind. This picks up particles of sand and dust and wafts them aloft in sand or dust storms.