chicken fried rice taste good. i prefer rice aganist the noodles.

fried rice is tasty. i prefer that over fried noodle. but there are a few combinations, basically all quite good. plain rice is just a bit boring...

I can tell you live down south. I like bbq'd niangao, but any other niangao is kind of gross. Sick of rice, sick of noodles (except the big huge northern noodles), like mantou. Now that I'm in Zhejiang I'm longing for all the types of bing you could get in Shaanxi. Southerners suck at carbohydrates.

Oh you should come to west China.  We can eat noodles, rice and nian gao but the best thing is naan 馕 it's Uyghur bread and tastes delicious!  There's so many types too.  It beats gross mantou any day!

I like rice and I like noodles, just not for 3 meals a day for the rest of my life like there are no other options.  Steamed breads are ok once in a while, but again, not every single day - it's pretty bland.

I'd take a potato over rice or noodles any day - mashed, baked and topped with whatever, au gratin, scalloped, alfredo, latkes and potato pancakes, hash browns, thick cut fries, shoestring fries, potato wedges, potato skins topped with bacon and cheese, potato salad, twice-baked potatoes, potato chips, plus the innumerable ways you can cook them and season them.

Potatoes are so versatile and you can make so many different things with them that it doesn't seem like you're eating the same thing everyday.  At least for me, even with so many ways to make dishes with rice or noodles I always get the feeling that they're rice or noodles ust in a different sauce.

I think I like both, it just depends on what is served with them. Rice, I've found, is a great neutralizer of the hot peppers that are so common in Hunan dishes. It also takes the after bite away from baiju!

Noodles are good for morning time and when you don't have a lot of time to prepare a proper meal (mostly on the prep side with having to cut everything up). I love a good, spicy mifen.

Niangao? So-so. Like the OP said, usually it has too much oil for my taste.

Noodles from Lanzhou or Wuhan are best.

Rice is better!

I would take rice because you can do more with it. If it was noodles I like spaghetti or pasta noodles. Still Rice you can make all types fried rice, chicken fried rice etc., 

I love the different types of noodles here. Some many kinds cooked in so many different ways.

Rice is the go to dish, but it gets boring if you always eat it.

Niangao is ok. I liked to eat it more when I was in korea, they do it better there

Noodles are my choice.

For rice, most of the time I'd rather just order another dish instead of filling up on the bowl of rice.

Guilin rice noodles!!!!!!!!

Noodles for me as well. Funnily enough although I also like rice a lot I eat less rice in China than I do in Australia. In China I eat a lot of hot pots, BBQ and Sichuan food at restaurants or street food etc so only eat rice now and then (once or twice a week) at home.

Probably eat noodles 3 times a week when in China either at home or at a cheap eatery. Love the various kinds but often get snarled at when at home because regardless of the type I add some of that sensational ground red chili paste/sauce that comes in the jar with the old women on a red label. I add it to most things and mix it with vinegar to make a great dumpling dipping sauce.       

For me it would be fried noodles, but sometimes too greasy for my taste.  What I do now is buy them and take them home, then place a paper towel on plate and pour noodles on top.  Paper towel absorbs the oil and to me they taste better.

rice of course

I prefer rice (living in South China) but Xinjiang Naan is terrific.

I prefer chow mein....but funny, they don't seem to make it here....just back home.
Fried rice is great but hard to find sometimes.  Steamed white rice is way too tasteless for me, but I will eat it if I have too.

I'm chinese, I don't like rice, noodles, and nian gao!   I like yummy dishes and soup/drinks