Stir-Fried Lamb with Bamboo Shoots and Black Mushrooms

Preparation info
  • Serves

    4 to 6

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Fragrant Harbour Taste: The New Chinese Cooking of Hong Kong

By Ken Hom

Published 1989

  • About

Although the Cantonese of Hong Kong are not particularly fond of lamb, you can find delicious lamb dishes in northern-style restaurants. Like many other recipes, the dish has been modified to the Hong Kong style. It is lighter, coated with an egg-white marinade, and served on a bed of crispy, airy noodles — a cloud of noodles. This is actually calculated to soften the impact of the strong-tasting lamb. In Hong Kong mutton or goat might be substituted as well.

The mushrooms add a lov