How To Cook Char Kway Teow

 

Ingredients

• 250 grams fresh wide rice noodle
• 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
• 5 small prawns/ shrimps
• 1 garlic clove, finely chopped
• 1/2 Chinese sausage
• 1 piece fried fish cake
• 10 stems spring onions, cut into 4 - 6 pieces
• 1.25 cup bean sprouts
• 1 egg

Sauce

• 2.5 teaspoon dark soy sauce
• 2 teaspoon light soy sauce
• 1 teaspoon oyster sauce
• 2 teaspoon kecap manis / sweet soy sauce

Instructions

1. Mix all the sauce ingredients together.
2. Heat 1 tablespoon oil in a  large skillet over high heat. Swirl it around it.
3. Add prawns when the oil start cooking for 30 seconds.
4. Add garlic and stir it for 10 seconds. 
   
   
   
5. Add noodles. Using both hands on the handle with a spatula + wooden spoon. toss it 4 times untill it is coated with oil.
6. Add Chinese sausage and fish cakes. Toss or gently fold it 4 times. 

   

   
   
7. Add bean sprouts and spring onions. Toss or gently fold it 6 times. 

   

   
   
8. Push everything to one side. Add 1 remaining tablespoon oil. 
9. Add egg and cook it for about 1 minute. Use the wooden spoon to chop it up roughly.
10. Pour sauce over the noodles. Toss to disperse the sauce through the noodles. Pause between tosses to give the noodles a chance to caramelise on the edges.
11. Serve it immediately.