Name: Roast Pork and Bean Sprouts Lo Mein (叉燒捞麵)
Yield: Serves 3 to 4.
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 1 tablespoon dry sherry; ½ pound roast pork shredded; 3 tablespoons oil; ½ pound noodles, boiled; 4 cups fresh bean sprouts (about ⅔ pound); 1½ tablespoons light soy sauce; ½ teaspoon salt; 1½ tablespoons oyster sauce; ½ teaspoon sugar; 1 small clove garlic, lightly crushed and peeled; 2 quarter-sized slices peeled ginger; 1 large whole scallion, shredded

Preparation info

Serves
3 to 4
.

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Key to Chinese Cooking

By Irene Kuo

Published 1977

About

Lo mein, meaning stir-fried noodles in the Cantonese dialect, is very tasty when done with spirit. Speed and motions of cooking are always intimately related to the outcome of a dish, but they are nowhere as evident as in the stir-frying technique, and with no dish more particularly than the tossed noodles. Scopped, lifted, and showered back into the pan with lightning speed and energetic motions, these noodles are light and bouncy. Well seasoned and entwined with slivers of juicy meat and