Chinese noodle: no soak, cook directly until it gets soft. drain.
Rice noodle: oriental style noodle, rice stick. The directions say: soak noodle for 10 minutes, cook for 6-8 minutes until rice stick softens, drain, and noodle is ready for frying or cook as a soup.

Ingredients
Noodles (M-size), 1 pound noodles
garlic
ground pork 1 lb.
green onions
sliced mushrooms
white pepper
soy sauce.
Grandma sauce (lao gan ma)
Sesame oil
 
Preparations
Fry the garlic and the ground pork, add white pepper, mushroom, grandma spice and green onions
Mix with the noodles and add a bit of sesame oil.
 
1 ½ pound noodles and 3 pound of rice-noodles