Chicken chow mein

Name: Chicken chow mein
Yield: Serves four
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 2 extra spring onions, green part only, finely sliced; ½ cup chicken stock; 2 tsp sesame oil; 6 dried mushrooms, soaked in hot water for 1 hour; 1½ tbsp cornflour; 1 tbsp shaohsing rice wine, or dry sherry; 1 tbsp shaohsing rice wine, or dry sherry; 4 spring onions, cut into 2.5 cm (1 in) lengths; 3 tbsp peanut oil; 6 stems choy sum (flowering cabbage); 6 stems choy sum (flowering cabbage); 300 g (10 oz) dried egg noodles; 200 g (7 oz) boned chicken meat; 150 g (5 oz) pork loin; 2 tbsp soy sauce; 2 tsp grated ginger

Preparation info

Serves
four

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Noodle

By Terry Durack

Published 2002

About

Better known as number 42 (or 17, or 91), this would have to be the world’s most boring, safe, unadventurous, and uneventful Chinese order ever. Yet somewhere beyond the gluggy cornflour sauce, the tired, limp vegetables and that back-of-the-tongue thwack of MSG is something pure, noble, and downright nice that deserves reclaiming.

Ingredients

300 g (10 oz) dried egg noodles
200 g (7

Asia
China
Guangdong
Main course
Noodles

Method

Cook noodles in boiling salted water for 3 to 4 minutes, or until tender. Drain, rinse in cold water, drain again, cover and set aside.

Cut chicken and pork into thin strips. Combine 1 tablespoon soy sauce with ginger, rice wine and 1