Fun With Chow Fun
Chow fun is a Cantonese dish of wide fresh rice noodles stir fried with various ingredients with or without a sauce. It doesn't really mean "fun food" like it sounds like it should in English, but instead means, "stir-fried rice noodles." Huh. Who would have thought?
Anyway, while this dish is usually made out of fresh rice noodles, these are thin on the ground and nearly unfindable in many of the Asian markets hereabouts, so I decided to see if I could make a credible dish of it with dried rice noodles.
I found that I could indeed do so, much to my family's joy and glee. I used beef, gai lan and sweet red peppers in mine, but you could use mushrooms, chicken, tofu or whatever in yours.
Recipe and pictures and some etymology on the name of the dish here.
Oh, and did I mention, it was easy to make, and less greasy than most restaurant versions? Yeah, it was tasty, and was really good in my daughter's bento at school the next day. She had kids huddling around begging for bites....
Anyway, while this dish is usually made out of fresh rice noodles, these are thin on the ground and nearly unfindable in many of the Asian markets hereabouts, so I decided to see if I could make a credible dish of it with dried rice noodles.
I found that I could indeed do so, much to my family's joy and glee. I used beef, gai lan and sweet red peppers in mine, but you could use mushrooms, chicken, tofu or whatever in yours.
Recipe and pictures and some etymology on the name of the dish here.
Oh, and did I mention, it was easy to make, and less greasy than most restaurant versions? Yeah, it was tasty, and was really good in my daughter's bento at school the next day. She had kids huddling around begging for bites....