Bend it…

I first saw this when Gerrie of the now-dormant blog drivenbymood.wordpress.com (Obviously, no mood anymore… LOL!!!) posted a photograph of it on Facebook…

It is not cheap, mind you! RM8.39 at Giant…and I just cannot stand them pricing the items like that – they’re not going to pay back the 1 sen change anyway, so why don’t they just put RM8.40? Probably they want people to buy more – if they buy 3, that would be RM25.17 and they would only need to pay RM25.15 – is that how it works?

Anyway, back to the post, I was very happy to get hold of it here (Apparently it is all sold out in Kuching…) as I had been looking for such packets of dried pad thai noodles or kway teow (flat rice noodles). I managed to buy one from The Store in Sungai Petani once and it was really very nice but the second time around, I bought another packet from the same place but it tasted like mihun – flattened mihun!

Well, I cooked a packet the other day and as everybody knows, I am the type that is not too disciplined enough to follow recipes or for that matter, cooking instructions…but I did the best I could even though I did “bend the rules” a little bit. LOL!!!

There are two packets of the noodles in each pack and I obediently boiled both in salted water for 3 minutes, drained it and rinsed it in cold water. Then, I had to prepare the necessary ingredients. According to the instructions, I had to fry an omelette in the oil and slice to be used later for garnishing and I did just that…

I would have to fry the prawns next which I did but I added some slices of fish cake as well…

I was supposed to take them out of the wok and add them in later…but I didn’t! Hehehehehe!!!! I just threw in the noodles and added the seasoning (after diluting it with water) – this comes in the pack as well, two separate sachets so you can use one at a time if you are going to cook the two portions of pad thai noodles separately.

Then, I threw in the sliced egg and the taugeh (bean sprouts) and stir-fried till the bean sprouts were adequately cooked. Then I served all that in a big plate and garnished with crushed peanuts…

…sliced chillies and daun sup (Chinese celery)…

This was what the end result looked like…

Well, as they say, the test of the pudding is in the eating…

…and I would say it was nice – kind of pale, somewhat sweet and something like what I had at the Ark not too long ago. I did not really fancy the lingering taste of msg in the mouth after eating it though…and on the whole, I would prefer to cook it our own way – char kway teow style.

If only they would sell just the pad thai noodles, minus the seasoning…and at a lower price!