Name: Macaroni Soup with Spam & Egg (餐蛋通心粉)
Yield: Serves 2
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 2 spring onions (scallions); 1 spring onion (scallion), sliced, to garnish; 50 g (1¾ oz) spam; 1 litre (1¾ pints/4 cups) fresh chicken stock; deep-fried shallots, to garnish; 1 tablespoon oyster sauce; Chiu Chow chilli oil; 1 clove of roasted garlic, skin on; 2 free-range eggs, 1 per bowl; ½ a thumb-size piece of ginger; 2 tablespoons light soy sauce; ½ a gem lettuce; 2 tablespoons vegetable oil; 100 g (3½ oz) elbow macaroni

Preparation info

Serves
2

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Hong Kong Diner

By Jeremy Pang

Published 2017

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The adverse effect that war has anywhere in the world is completely undeniable. Hong Kong in general did not play a huge part in the Second World War; however, after the war, and the multiple change of power and influence from several different countries, the people of Hong Kong found themselves sitting between the Americans, the Japanese and the Italians and their weird and wonderful war food Creations: canned meat and dried pasta. In true Hong Kong style and resilience of sorts, this amal