She didn’t know…

My missus didn’t know that I had bought this once before and I did not really think it was great…or maybe she did but she had forgotten so the other day, she came home with a packet of it. Ah well! Since she had already bought it, I thought I might as well cook it and be done with it , never mind that I felt it was not exactly like kway teow (flat rice noodles) as we know it – at least, it was edible.

As on the previous occasion, I soaked it in hot water till it had gone all soft and in the meantime, I prepared the ingredients that I would use in frying it. As always, you would find the usual suspects – the sliced shallots and chopped garlic…

…and also some chilies and eggs. There were some leftover clams in soy sauce in the fridge so I decided to cook it, mihun-syle and I found some cangkok manis/mani cai as well so I took a bit of that for use as well. Of course, as in cooking the vegetable, you would need to tear the leaves into bits and pieces to ease chewing and digestion and I did not forget to do that.

Once the kway teow had turned soft enough, I drained away the water completely and then I poured in whatever was left of the soy sauce in those canned clams. There did not seem to be enough and I did not want the kway teow to look sadly pale so I added a bit of dark soy sauce…

…and tossed everything together thoroughly.

Once I had got everything, I was ready to start cooking…and after heating up the wok, I added a bit of oil into it and when it was hot enough, I put in the shallots and garlic to fry till golden brown. Then I added the cangkok manis and the chilies, followed shortly by the kway teow. After stirring for a while, I tried a bit of it and found that it was not salty enough so I added a pinch of salt – I did not want to add more soy sauce in case it turned out a little bit too black. Finally, I added the eggs…as soon as the eggs were cooked, the kway teow was ready to be dished out…

…and served…

It did taste very nice but the fact remained that it was not exactly like kway teow…and at RM5.00 for a packet, I do hope my missus will not absent-mindedly go and buy it again.