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By Ken Hom
Published 1998
While the Western diners ordered pork fried rice, chop suey and chow mein takeaway, we Chinese-Americans preferred such dishes as this one, made with generous portions of soft rice noodles stir-fried with bits of beef in a black bean sauce. This take-away dish was one of our family’s favourites, and is in fact a traditional and very popular southern Chinese noodle classic. We would order it from a restaurant because, although we could cook this at home, a large quantity was hard to achieve