Fried Egg Noodles (Chow Mien)

Fried Noodles, originally uploaded by pearlyn83.

This is the easiest way to fry noodles ever! Seriously, it requires no more than 10 minutes and is cheap to prepare.

Ingredients:

• Egg noodles
• Diced bacon
• Spring onions, chopped (the roots only)
• Garlic, minced
• Dried shitake mushrooms, soaked and sliced thinly
• Egg
• Sesame oil
• Oyster sauce
• Salt

Method:

• Bring a kettle of water to boil. Place noodles in large bowl and soak with the water. Do not boil noodles in water as it’ll become too soggy and won’t taste good.
• Allow noodles to soak for about 2 minutes, then use a fork to untangle it. Further soak for another couple of minutes.
• Once noodles have untangled and looks soft, drain and run it under cold water then toss with sesame oil.
• Place a few mushrooms in a microwave tupperware, add hot water and microwave for about 2 minutes. Drain and slice.
• In the meantime, heat the wok and oil. Add garlic and spring onion, fry till fragrant. Add bacon and mushroom. Lastly add the egg(s).
• Add noodles and seasoning. Adjust taste accordingly. Garnish with spring onions before serving.

Note:

• Add any ingredients you want. If you are not into bacon, mince chicken or pork is equally good. I added chicken thighs as there were leftovers from my chinese rice dumplings. If you are using other meat besides bacon, pre-season it with salt, pepper, soy and oyster sauce.