Soy sauce chow mein with a fried egg from To Asia, With Love: Everyday Asian Recipes and Stories from the Heart (page 53) by Hetty Lui McKinnon

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  • EYB Comments

    Can substitute rice vermicelli noodles or fresh noodles for dried egg noodles; the book's "Marinated eggs, three ways: marbled tea eggs", "Marinated eggs, three ways: soy eggs", or "Marinated eggs, three ways: beetroot-pickled eggs" for eggs; and tamari for light soy sauce. See recipe for a variation.

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    Can substitute rice vermicelli noodles or fresh noodles for dried egg noodles; the book's "Marinated eggs, three ways: marbled tea eggs", "Marinated eggs, three ways: soy eggs", or "Marinated eggs, three ways: beetroot-pickled eggs" for eggs; and tamari for light soy sauce. See recipe for a variation.

  • Babycarrot on July 23, 2023

    IMO, this was just okay. Maybe bc I made in a pan and not a wok? I also didn’t have dark soy so just used regular. I do think some chili oil and hoisin sauce will spruce up the leftovers. Overall didn’t have much taste.

  • Agaillard on October 18, 2021

    I definitely have progress to make on how to handle rice noodles, and especially vermicelli like the ones I had, and ended up to be a really strange texture after the panfry step (a giant mash which I then managed to break up and cook dry, but I am sure there is a better method, I am just very inexperienced with noodles). For the rest, the recipe is (deceptively?) simple, but that might be because I was lacking the dark soy sauce the author is referring to! Nevertheless, it was quite tasty and pleasant, I might do again once I determine how to handle the noodles!

  • Ganga108 on July 10, 2021

    I made a veg version using a chickpea flour "omelette", crispy garlic and roasted chilli pumpkin instead of the egg.

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