Mee Rebus

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

Yellow Noodles in a Spicy-Sweet Gravy with Garnish

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

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