To provide a method for producing rice noodles by passing a rice component raw material through a plurality of times of pregelatinization, to provide rice noodles obtained by the method, and to provide instant dry noodles obtained from the rice noodles.

This method for producing the rice noodles includes bringing a rice component raw material into the rice noodles by passing through a feeding step, a selection step, a rice washing step, a soaking (sprouting) step, a dehydrating step, a steaming (pregelatinization) step, a drying (stable pregelatinization) step, a crushing step, a hot water hydrating (pregelatinization) step, a mixing step, and an extruding (last pregelatinization) step. The rice component raw material is one kind selected from white rice, brown rice and sprouted brown rice, and/or its mixture, and is added with a function improving material in the hot water hydrating/mixing step in the noodle making steps. The rice noodles thus obtained become instant dry noodles by passing from a heating step (pregelatinization) through a cutting step, a drying step (pregelatinization), a metal detecting (X ray detection) step, a packaging step, and a boxing (shipping) step.