Recipe - Dry Wan Tan noodles

Dry Wan Tan noodles recipe:-

Dry Wan Tan noodles with choy sum, char siu, homemade braised mushroom and pickled green chillies.

My grandma used to make Wan Tan noodles for breakfast and sometimes she packed it for us to bring to school. She loved it spicy and always mixed the noodles with Lingham’s chilli sauce. I prefer to eat it with pickled green chillies.

In Malacca, I lived two houses away from a hawker stall selling Wan Tan noodles. Back then, I love to watch Ah Lek cook the noodles. The noodles textures are always springy and firm never mushy.

Wan Tan noodles are easily accessible in wet markets or Asian grocery stores if you live in Australia.

Ingredients

One handful of fresh wan tan noodles approximately 100gm
Choy sum, trimmed and washed

Sauce (per serving)
1 tbsp shallot oil (refer to recipe : http://5foodway.blogspot.com.au/2014/05/jennifers-secret-ingredient-in-her.html)
½ tbsp dark caramel sauce
½ tbsp light soy sauce
½ tbsp sesame oil
½ tbsp oyster sauce

Prepare a pot of boiling water, add a drop of oil and a pinch of salt. Blanch the choy sum for 20 seconds until cooked. Remember to put the stems first follow by the leaves. Once cooked, set aside.

Separately prepare a bowl of cold water and a bowl of hot boiled water.

Discard the vegetable water. Bring a pot of water to boil. Once boiling, add the noodles and cook it for a minute (taste to test whether it is cook). Then, blanch it in the cold water. Thereafter, quickly blanch into the bowl of hot boiled water. Preferably use a sieve to remove the noodles from the cold/hot boiled water.

Mix all the sauces into a bowl or plate, follow by the noodles. Mix it well.

Serve the noodles with char siu, stewed shiitake mushroom (refer to recipe below), choy sum, a bowl of  Wan Tan soup and pickled green chillies (refer to recipe below). You may also sprinkle some of the crispy fried shallots on top of the noodles.

Recipe for pickled green chillies : (http://5foodway.blogspot.com.au/2014/06/recipe-pickled-green-chillies.html )

Recipe for stewed shiitake mushroom : (http://5foodway.blogspot.com.au/2014/07/recipe-braised-shiitake-mushroom.html )