Fox noodles with chicken and mushrooms

The Japanese name of this dish – kitsune udon – translates as fox noodles, apparently because of the wily beast’s fondness for fried tofu. I don’t think this assertion has ever been scientifically proved, but it’s such a nice story, I’m prepared to go along with it. This is done in the Osaka style, which just means it has chicken in it. Aburage, fried dried sheets of tofu, are available frozen from Japanese supermarkets.