Chow mein chinese food

Chow mein means stir-fried noodles in Chinese where “mein” means noodles. There are two main types of chow mein. First one is the steamed chow mein and the other one is the crispy chow mien (Hong Kong Style), I guess their names defines what type of noodles it is. This is one of the most popular Chinese dishes, so popular it can be found in almost all corners of the globe, also on some locations it had evolved and localized version are created. Some of the localized versions are Mee Goreng in Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia (this is a hot and spicy version of chow mein), Pancit Canton on Philippines (the noddles are similar to the crispy one but cooked like the steamed version) and there are also Chow mein variations in America and Canada.

Now for this post I am unsure whether I will be using the original recipe ingredients of chow mein as there are a lot of variations already but I will keep it as Chinese as I can :)

Ingredients

3 Chicken Thighs, deboned and cubed
10 pcs fish balls, quartered
400g fresh fine egg noodles
1 small shallot, thinly sliced
3 cloves garlic, minced
1 tsp ginger paste
2 tbsp peanut oil
1 tsp sugar
1 stalk celery, julienned
6 pcs dried shitake, rehydrated and sliced
1 carrot, julienned
6 stalks garlic sprouts, julienned
3 stalks spring onions, julienned
1 tsp corn Starch
1 tbsp hoisin sauce
4 tbsp soy sauce
4 tbsp Chinese cooking wine
chicken stock

Procedure

1. In a very hot wok add peanut oil and stir fry chicken for 1 minute, remove from wok then set aside.
2. Add fishballs stir fry for 1 minute then remove from wok and set aside.
3. Lower the heat to medium high, then add garlic, ginger and shallots.
4. Toss the mushrooms, garlic sprouts and celery stir fry for 30 seconds then add carrots, stir fry for additional 30 seconds, remove from wok then set aside.
5. Mix corn starch with 1 cup chicken stock, hoisin sauce, soy sauce and cooking wine pour into wok and bring to a boil.
6. Add noodles and give it a good mix making sure that all noodles are coated with the gravy.
7. Put back the fish balls, chicken and vegetables, mix well then serve.
8. Top with spring onions.