Cook with Love: Rat Noodles

Ha! Ha! Ha! Frightening when you look at the title, right? You must be thinking that this person must be out of her mind to fry rats with noodles. 'Rat noodles' is a translated version of Chinese for 'loh shi fun'. Don't worry, nothing exotic here. Just want to share something slightly different in smell. Smell makes a lot of difference when we eat. Sometimes the food can smell quite odd but if we really eat it, it can be quite tasty. But food is all about smell, right? If it doesn't smell good, it means it is either not edible or the taste of the food is not up to our liking. Of course sight is important too as how we lay out our food and how we place it before the person who is going to eat it but don't forget sight can be tricky. Looks does not necessary means that the food is good. Well, enough of my talk. Let's get down to business.

I am going to fry 'rat noodles' for 4 person

Ingredients

1 packet of rat noodles
1 chicken breast
1 bunch of chinese parsley
3 to 4 pips of garlic
4 to 5 dried mushrooms

Method A

Soften your mushrooms before hand. Sock them in a pinch of salt. Salt will give a chewy feeling to your mushrooms.
Minced and season your chicken with the usual salt, sugar, light soya sauce and pepper.

Method B

Boil water in a pot.
Once the water is boiling, put your rat noodles in and wait for a little while. Don't be too long otherwise your rat noodles will be too soft for frying.
Chop your garlic.
Slice your softened mushrooms.

Method C

Heat oil and fry your garlic till fragrant
Fry your seasoned minced chicken till cooked.
Fry your sliced mushrooms
Put in your rat noodles and toss for a while.
Add salt to taste.
You can add a little thick soya sauce for colouring.
Lastly put in your chinese parsley. The smell will now be completely different and smell affects taste buds!

* You can actually add anything here. You can have an egg omelette. The method is shown in the other recipes. Browse through my recipe to find how out how I make the egg omelette.