Peppery Soup Noodles with Shrimp Balls

Name: Peppery Soup Noodles with Shrimp Balls (蝦球湯麵)
Yield: Serves 4 as a hearty, one-bowl meal, or 6–8 as a less majestic bowlful.
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: ¼ cup finely shredded Smithfield ham; miniature green Chinese cabbages, cut crosswise into bands ½ inch thick; Roasted Szechwan Pepper-Salt, or coarse kosher salt and freshly ground white pepper to taste; slender string beans or Chinese longbeans, cut into 2-inch lengths; 2 tablespoons Chinese rice wine or quality, dry sherry; tiny broccoli flowerets and/or peeled and slivered broccoli stems; 1½ tablespoons thin (regular) soy sauce; 4–6 cups corn or peanut oil, for deep-frying; ½ pound fresh or frozen Chinese egg noodles, 1/16 inch thin (for substitutes for making your own); 6 cups rich, unsalted chicken stock (for making your own); 1 recipe shrimp paste; ¼ cup julienned fresh carrots; small snow peas, strings removed; unblemished spinach leaves, cut crosswise into 1-inch bands, or tender sprigs of fresh watercress; 1½ teaspoons coarse kosher salt; 2 cups fresh, washed greens (choose one):; 2 teaspoons Chinese or Japanese sesame oil

蝦球湯麵

Preparation info

Serves
4
as a hearty, one-bowl meal .

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Modern Art of Chinese Cooking

By Barbara Tropp

Published 1982

About

Soup noodles are the great wayfarer’s snack and street food of China—a meal in a bowl, combining the slippery fun of noodles and the warm nourishment of soup. Travelers record the soup noodles they had in this or that province, students nearly always live on soup noodles from a favorite stall, and my favorite Chinese detective hero, Judge Dee, almost never solves a murder without downing a bowl of soup noodles somewhere along the way. (Judge Dee, a famous T

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