Hor fun soup noodles with roast duck

Name: Hor fun soup noodles with roast duck
Yield: Serves four
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 2 cloves of garlic, crushed with the side of a knife blade; 2 litres (3½ pts) chicken stock; 1 tbsp oyster sauce; 2 slices ginger, cut into thin matchsticks; 300 g (10 oz) fresh rice sheet noodles; ½ Cantonese roast duck (from Chinese barbecued meats shop); 2 spring onions, green part only, sliced; 4 iceberg lettuce leaves

Preparation info

Serves
four

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Noodle

By Terry Durack

Published 2002

About

How easy is this? All it takes is some rice noodles, a ladleful of chicken stock and couple of pieces of the Cantonese roast duck you picked up at the Chinese barbecued meats shop on the way home. It goes to show that there are times when shopping skills are more important than cooking skills.

Ingredients

2 cloves of garlic, crushed with the side of a knife blade
2 slices ginger, cut into thin matchsticks
1

Method

Add garlic, ginger and oyster sauce to chicken stock and simmer for 5 minutes. Remove garlic. Blanch lettuce leaves quickly in the stock and remove. Chop duck Chinese-style, through the bone, into 2.5 cm (1 in