Thai Crisp-Fried Noodles

Crisp-fried noodles come to us from the Chinese, but the Thai have elaborated on it and, with additions, made it peculiarly their own Mee Krob. The noodles are always the thin, thread-like, rice noodles, or vermicelli, as they are sometimes called. The additions to the noodles vary greatly with what is available in the market or family larder, but there is always a combination of seafood and meat or poultry mingling with the noodles and the sweet/sour sauce. Particular care must be t