Name: Mee Rebus (Yellow Noodles in a Spicy-Sweet Gravy with Garnish)
Yield: Makes 8 Servings
Ingredients: 2.5 cm or 1 inch turmeric (kunyit), skinned and julienned; 300 g or 11 ounces prawns (shrimps), boiled and shelled; 5 cm or 2 inch galangal (lengkuas), skinned and julienned; ½ teaspoon salt; 3 green chillies, sliced; 1 bunch garlic chives (ku chai), chopped finely; 2 tablespoons plain flour, made into a slurry with some water; 3 tablespoons fermented soy bean paste (taucheo), pounded finely; 3 potatoes, peeled and quartered; or 3 tomatoes, quartered (optional) *; 6 cups water; 1 teaspoon ground coriander (ketumbar); 2 tablespoons curry powder, made into a paste with some water; 1 clove garlic, peeled; 600 g or 1 pound 5 ounces yellow noodles; 8 shallots, peeled and diced finely; ½ teaspoon belachan; 6 dried chillies, soaked in hot water; 6 shallots, peeled, sliced finely and fried until crispy and brown; 4 tablespoons oil; 3 hard-boiled eggs, peeled and sliced; 300 g or 11 ounces bean sprouts, roots plucked; 4 calamansi limes (limau kesturi), halved; 1 piece firm bean curd (taukua), seared brown on all sides, cut into small cubes

Preparation info

Makes
8
Servings

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Growing Up In A Nonya Kitchen

By Sharon Wee

Published 2012

About

As a child, Friday night was movie night for me. I continue this tradition with my children today. Back then, my mother would turn the air conditioner on and the lights out in her bedroom. We would cuddle on her bed or a mattress on the floor. Our 13-inch black-and-white TV would be tuned in to Malaysia’s RTM to catch a classic feature such as a 1950s film by Malaysia’s movie and TV legend, P. Ramlee, who was incidentally our neighbour at Yarrow Gardens. In the film, the ch