Not exactly…

It was that evening after our sumptuous Japanese lunch when my missus cooked some noodles, Foochow-style, served in soup, for dinner. I did not take a photgraph of it but for the uninitiated, it would look something like this…

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…minus the big prawns. She did have prawns in hers too though just that they were not as big and she had the shells removed. Other than that, she also added some meat and a lot more green vegetables unlike when one eats something like this outside.

The next day, I saw that she did not use all the noodles she had bought and there was around half a kg of them left in the fridge so I decided to fry them for breakfast. What I did was I tossed the noodles with dark soy sauce, a tablespoon of sugar and a tablespoon of bottled chili sauce first. Then I fried some chopped garlic in a bit of oil till golden brown before throwing in some prawns (my missus had removed the heads and shells), sliced beef sausages that I had in the freezer and the stalks of some green vegetables Then I added the noodles and fried everything together well before adding the leafy part of the vegetables, two eggs plus a dash of pepper. When it was done, I dished it out, sprinkled some fried shallots and chopped spring onions over it and served…

I thought it was very nice and felt it was something like a cross between our Foochow/Chinese fried noodles, the dry version and the mee mamak or the Malay ones…

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… but when my girl got up, she had some and remarked that it tasted more like the former and not quite like the latter. Isk! Tsk! I would think that mine…

…was very much nicer or at least, I had a lot more ingredients than just those few miserable bits of meat and green vegetables plus a whole of lot of msg that you find in a plate of fried noodles, dry, at the Chinese shops outside for RM3.00!!!

Anyway, what mattered most was that it was as good as it looked…

…and I sure would not mind frying noodles like this again.