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.
Dust storms were the result of drought and land that had been overused. Drought first hit the country in 1930. By 1934, it had turned the Great Plains into a desert that came to be known as the Dust Bowl. In Oklahoma, the Panhandle area was hit hardest by the drought.