This was another one of the dishes we made for Chinese New Year this year! For the record, this recipe is enough to feed a small army, so feel free to scale it down!
Anyway, our group decided to celebrate Chinese New Year on Friday evening, since we have a quiz tomorrow morning. We didn’t really make too many traditional foods for the new year because we are just a tad bit lacking in terms of ingredients (the closest Asian market is 2 hours away :'( ), so we did what we could.
My friend thinks my apocalyptic pantry is hilariously awesome and has also taken to feeling my biceps whenever I walk by. They joke that I should enter one of them fitness competitions, but I think I have about 10% too much body fat for that sort of thing (not to mention, I would absolutely hate to have to watch every single thing that I ate and med school + everything else I’m currently doing would make that just a tad bit difficult). Gotta say, I definitely wouldn’t mind looking like a NPC bikini competitor. :O
Chinese Rice Noodles with Snow Peas
Ingredients:
- 8 Chinese-style noodle nests
- snow peas
- Hoisin sauce
- oyster sauce
- soy sauce
- 4 cloves garlic, chopped
- sesame oil
Instructions:
- Cook rice noodles for 3 minutes in water, stirring occasionally. Pour off the water and rinse noodles in cold water, then drain.
- Heat oil in a wok or pan and stir fry garlic for 30 seconds. Add the noodles and all the sauces and cook until it reaches the consistency you desire.
We also made Egg Tarts, Boiled Cabbage in Oyster Sauce, matzo balls in broth, 脆皮炸鲜奶 (Fried Coconut Milk), 炸馒头 (Fried Mantou), another vegetable dish (I don’t know what it’s called in English), and Walmart dumplings (har har; we may attempt to make these from scratch-scratch sometime [by that, I mean making even the wrappers from scratch since we can’t buy them here]).
