We love to order "Chow Mien" at our favorite seafood restaurant in Fremont - especially my grand-kids. They love "noodles". Three dishes for $18? Not baaad. We can feed the entire family and still got enough to take doggy bag home. After a while though, it's time to try your own. We found this new 99 Ranch Market in Mountain View (CA). It's loaded with variety of Oriental noodles. Anything from dry, instant, to fresh noodles from Japan to Taiwan to China, they got few of each. Our goal is to find the right fresh noodles for the stir-fry to make the "Chow Mien". As you might already know "Chow Mien" is Chinese fried noodles usually prepared with some vegetables, meat, and sauce, and it is expressed in "Cantonese" dialect. In Mandarin, it would be pronounced more like "Tsao Mien". Regardless, I found this Stir-Fry Shanghai Noodles. You can practically add any kind of vegetables and meat to stir fry with it. Since this is fresh noodles, not egg noodles, the noodles will be soft vs. "pan fried noodles" that is usually prepared with "egg" based thin noodles. I am sure you know a lot more about the noodles than I do, but I used the following ingredients:
2 TBsp dark soy sauce
1-1/2 TBsp light soy sauce... I just used Low Sodium soy sauce we bought for both
1TBsp OYSTER sauce
1/2 tsp sugar
1/8 tsp ground white pepper or black pepper
1/2 tsp of pre-chopped garlic in the jar - if fresh, three cloves, chopped
1 tsp of minced ginger (I keep them frozen, so I can use it anytime)
1/2 lb of raw shrimps - Rinsed in salt water and strained or you can use Chicken pieces
1 bunch of green onions, washed and chopped
1/4 head small Cabbage, finely Julienned or cut thinly
2 cups of fresh bean sprouts, washed and strained
3 Dry Shiitake Mushrooms, rehydrated in Hot Boiling water. Sliced. Save the Stock.
Any other veges you want to put in.
MIX soy sauce, oyster sauce, salt, and pepper together. Set aside
Pour 3 TBsp of cooking oil in the hot wok.
Add garlic and ginger. Stir to bring out aroma, then add green onion. 3 min.
Add Raw Shrimps (or Chicken)
Stir fried until cooked. (Not translucent anymore)
I also add a bit of chili flakes, but you can do it for your own bowl later.
WITHOUT TAKING OUT THE OIL IN THE WOK, Take out the shrimps.... try to leave as much oil in the Wok as possible. If not enough oil to fry the vegetables, add 1 TBsp more of cooking oil.
Add Cabbage and stir-fry just until it turns translucent. Make sure there is enough cooking oil to coat the cabbages lightly all around. Do not over cook. Stir fry for 3-4 min.
(Raw cabbage seems to develop gas for many people.)
Add Bean sprouts, mushrooms, and any other veges. Stir fry for 30 seconds.
Remove to large bowl and set aside.
In the same Wok:
Add the fresh Noodles and recommended amount of liquid on the package, e.g. 6 oz water + mushroom stock -- amount of stock from rehydrated Shiitake mushroom.
Cook the noodle until the stock goes down to 1/3 cup or something like that.
1-1/2 TBsp light soy sauce... I just used Low Sodium soy sauce we bought for both
1TBsp OYSTER sauce
1/2 tsp sugar
1/8 tsp ground white pepper or black pepper
1/2 tsp of pre-chopped garlic in the jar - if fresh, three cloves, chopped
1 tsp of minced ginger (I keep them frozen, so I can use it anytime)
1/2 lb of raw shrimps - Rinsed in salt water and strained or you can use Chicken pieces
1 bunch of green onions, washed and chopped
1/4 head small Cabbage, finely Julienned or cut thinly
2 cups of fresh bean sprouts, washed and strained
3 Dry Shiitake Mushrooms, rehydrated in Hot Boiling water. Sliced. Save the Stock.
Any other veges you want to put in.
MIX soy sauce, oyster sauce, salt, and pepper together. Set aside
Pour 3 TBsp of cooking oil in the hot wok.
Add garlic and ginger. Stir to bring out aroma, then add green onion. 3 min.
Add Raw Shrimps (or Chicken)
Stir fried until cooked. (Not translucent anymore)
I also add a bit of chili flakes, but you can do it for your own bowl later.
WITHOUT TAKING OUT THE OIL IN THE WOK, Take out the shrimps.... try to leave as much oil in the Wok as possible. If not enough oil to fry the vegetables, add 1 TBsp more of cooking oil.
Add Cabbage and stir-fry just until it turns translucent. Make sure there is enough cooking oil to coat the cabbages lightly all around. Do not over cook. Stir fry for 3-4 min.
(Raw cabbage seems to develop gas for many people.)
Add Bean sprouts, mushrooms, and any other veges. Stir fry for 30 seconds.
Remove to large bowl and set aside.
In the same Wok:
Add the fresh Noodles and recommended amount of liquid on the package, e.g. 6 oz water + mushroom stock -- amount of stock from rehydrated Shiitake mushroom.
Cook the noodle until the stock goes down to 1/3 cup or something like that.
(Some people prefer the noodles with lots of sauce, but just make sure it is not like a soup. After all, this is Stir-fry noodles.)
Add Vegetables, Sauce Mixtures, Shrimps to combine with noodles.
Add Vegetables, Sauce Mixtures, Shrimps to combine with noodles.
Stir Fry until everything is coated with sauce mixture. 3 to 5 minutes.
Done.
Done.
Serves 5
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