🤤 How a Chinese chef cooks Glass Noodles (蝦米炒粉絲)!

By Made With Lau · 20 min

Ingredients

Instructions

1. Soak the mung bean vermicelli in warm water for a few minutes.
2. Rinse the dried shrimp in warm water, drain, then soak them in fresh water for 3 minutes. Squeeze out excess water and set aside the soaking liquid.
3. Wash the dried shiitake in cold water, then soak them in warm water. Drain, squeeze out excess water and slice thinly.
4. Peel the carrot, cut a thin slice off one side to make a flat base, then slice into thin planks, stack them and cut into thin matchsticks.
5. Cut 4 napa cabbage leaves off at the base, rinse and soak them with the celery in a large bowl. Slice the cabbage into three sections, then cut into thin strips.
6. Separate the red onion into pieces from the root end, then slice thinly across the grain. Cut the green onion into 2-inch pieces, keeping whites and greens separate.
7. Smash the garlic cloves with the flat of a knife, trim the hard ends and mince. Quarter the celery stalks, then cut into strips along the grain.
8. Snip the vermicelli a few times with kitchen shears so the strands are shorter, then drain.
9. Heat a wok on high, add 1 tablespoon corn oil, then lower the heat. Stir-fry the garlic for 20 seconds, then add the shrimp and move them around with chopsticks.
10. Add the mushrooms and stir-fry for 2 minutes. Add the green onion whites and the cabbage, raise the heat to high and stir-fry for 2 to 3 minutes.
11. Add the celery and stir-fry for 1 minute, then add the carrot and stir-fry for 1 minute. Pour in 2 to 3 tablespoons of the reserved shrimp water and stir-fry for another minute.
12. Lower the heat. Stir in 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon sugar, 1 tablespoon light soy sauce and 1 tablespoon oyster sauce, then add 1 teaspoon dark soy sauce.
13. Add the noodles to the centre of the wok, raise the heat to high and toss them in the sauce, separating the strands with chopsticks.
14. Add the red onion and remaining green onion, then stir-fry on medium-low heat for a final 2 minutes.
15. Taste and adjust seasoning, then finish with 1 teaspoon sesame oil.

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