Tinkering Troubles

I spent the afternoon revisiting an idea for noodles made with a glutinous rice flour starch paste. The difficulty with ideas that have been kicking around for a while is the amount of hope for success I have. My plan was to create a thick noodle, in the style of udon, that could be kneaded relatively easily and could also cook quickly while producing a thick noodle chew. This was my third-ish attempt at this version of the noodle, and I was anticipating a win. Despite all my hopes, and the visual cues of the dough kneading well and rolling how I wanted, the end result was a gummy mess. I have some ideas on how to improve the noodles. The first is to use a harder wheat in the dough in conjunction with the rice flour.