One particularly well-known, slightly thicker variety, called Guìlín mǐfěn (桂林米粉), comes from the southern Chinese city of Guilin, where it is a breakfast staple.

Rice vermicelli is widely known in Asia by cognates of Hokkien 米粉 (bí-hún, lit.

Other names include num banh chok (Cambodia), hsan-kya-zan (Myanmar), and bún (Vietnam).

In Hubei and historically in much of Hunan, mifen refers to thick, flat rice noodles made using a wet mix, similar to shahe fen.

In Changde, the term refer to thick, round noodles that has supplanted the other mifen in Hunan.