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Last weekend, Baby and I decided to cook our own version of Yee Mee (deep fried noodles). Now we usually don’t follow any recipe to the tee but we substitute ingredients and make do with whatever we have to suit our taste buds. Mind you, while this dish looks simple, it actually takes awhile to prepare. So, if you’re looking for a quick meal, don’t try this…haha

Ingredients (Serves 4-5 people):
2 large yellow onions
3 cloves of garlic
Ginger (lots of it)
Cherry tomatoes / tomatoes
Fresh lettuce
Baby corn
Grey Oyster Mushrooms
300gm fresh chicken breast
1 pack of fish balls / fish cakes / crab sticks
1 pack deep fried bean curd (taufu pok)
1 egg
1 pack of Yee Mee (usually comes in a pack of 5 in the supermarkets) 
3 tablespoons of cooking oil
Pepper and soy sauce to taste

Broth:
1 pack of herbal soup mix
Chinese cooking wine

Garnishing
Spring onions
Coriander

The ingredients

Chopped spring onions, coriander and lettuce

The base of the broth

Chinese cooking wine…the more the better ;)

Firstly, to prepare the broth, fill half the pot with water and then add the sachets of the soup mix together. Separate half the portion of the chicken breast, fish balls, deep fried tofu, then add that half portion to the pot and bring it to a boil.

While waiting for the broth to boil, prepare an extra pan, add cooking oil and stir fry the ginger, garlic and onions.

Once the garlic, ginger and onions are golden brown, add in the remainder of the chicken breast, fish balls and deep fried tofu.

Stir fry until cook then add in Chinese cooking wine and bring it to a boil. Now, you can add how much wine you like as long as it suites your taste. For Baby and I, we like ours “strong” =)

Once the broth is boiling, add in the remaining chicken breast, fish balls and tofu, together with the oyster mushrooms, tomatoes and baby corn. Also pour in the contents of the pan that contains the cooking wine into the pot, add soy sauce to taste and simmer it for about 45 minutes.

Add in soy sauce and pepper to taste

After 45 minutes or so, do a taste test on the broth to see if there is enough flavor. At this point, you could add in more wine (yums!), chicken stock, pepper and soy sauce.

Once the broth is to your liking, prepare a separate pan to prepare the noodles. Take about 3 ladles full of broth from the pot into the pan, then add in the noodles.

Cook till noodles soften then add in lettuce and egg

At this point, the noodles will absorb the broth, so you should add more broth into the pot and bring it to a boil. Once it’s cook, you can serve it with chopped spring onions and coriander on the top for garnishing and extra flavor.

And there you have it, our version of Yee Mee with Chinese Cooking WIne. Thanks Baby for the idea and the preparation. Hope you guys can experiment by adding different ingredients and tell me about it. Until then…happy cooking! =)