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Cooking the Noodles.
1. Boil a pot of water and put a bowl of cold water by the
side.
2. Put each portion of noodle into boiling water for 3mins.
3. Dish out and rinse thoroughly with cool water to prevent
strands from sticking
together. Put back into the boiling water to reheat for another
30 seconds
. !oss noodle with a tsp of onion oil and light soy sauce in a
serving bowl.
". #dd a few drops of rice vinegar .
$ %erve with slice pieces of meat and minced meat.
* If you are making Kam Pua or Sarawak Foochow noodles, then
skip step 3- !ut
instead toss noodles with lard and light soy sauce""
Basic noodles
2 cup plain flour
tablespoon of tapicoa flour or corn starch
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1&2 cup water
1 tsp salt
1&2 tsp 'ansui (optional)
Method:
# stiff dough is prepared from flour and water. *over with a
cloth or plastic and
allow it to rest for #$ minutes. !he resting time allows the
flour to absorb water
uniformly and make the dough more pliable and easier to
handle.
+latten the dough with a rolling pin and make a sheet 1mm thick.
Dust with tapioca
starch &flour to prevent noodles sticking together. ,oll the
sheet into a log and cut
slice of the width desired for the noodles. # pasta machine can
be used to roll and
cut the dough evenly.
Egg noodles / Kwang Tung Mein %more tasty and
chewy&
cups plain flour
tablespoon of tapioca starch or corn starch (flour) (acts as a
thickener)
1egg
1tsp salt
1 cup water
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1 of bicarbonate of soda or alkaline water (kansui )-
optional
+ew drops of rice vinegar %after cooked&
Method
Beat eggs until light and add in all ingredients. i/ well and
knead to make a
very stiff dough. *over with a cloth or plastic and allow it to
rest for #$ minutes.
!he resting time allows the flour to absorb water uniformly and
make the dough
more pliable and easier to handle.
,oll out on floured board until very thin about 1mm . Dust top
with tapioca flour
and roll up like elly roll. *ut in desired widths. Dust with
tapioca flour to prevent
sticking as necessary. # pasta machine can be used to roll and
cut the dough evenly
or rolled up elly-roll fashion and sliced through with a knife
at the desired width.
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