Penang Hokkien Mee

In May 2009, I made Penang Hokkien Mee and invited some friends over to eat. I have not made it since then but thought I should share the recipe with you so that you could also attempt to make it at home. It's a really delicious Malaysian dish - prawn stock with noodles, vegetables, thinly sliced fish cake, slices of pork belly, sambal prawns, hard boiled eggs and crispy roast pork. Here is the recipe (probably serves 8-10):

Stock

• 1 slab of pork belly (remove the rind, please)
• A few large pork bones
• 1kg of prawn heads, shells (whole prawns sauteed, heads & shells for stock, prawns aside for later)
• 200g of dried anchovies
• Fill a large pot with water, add all the ingredients and bring to a boil for 45mins
• Strain the stock, discard prawn head/shells, pork bones and dried anchovies
• Return the pork belly slab into the stock and boil again until the pork belly is tender (about 2hours)
• Add some chilly oil, salt and sugar to taste (the stock should be a little sweet)

Sambal

• 1 garlic bulb
• A small piece of garlic
• 8 eschallots
• 10 fresh red chillies
• 10 dried chillies, soaked in hot water until soft and drained
• Blend all the ingredients above into a paste
• Heat pan, add oil and saute the paste
• Add 1tbs of shrimp paste/belacan paste
• Add salt and sugar to taste

Noodles, Vegetables and Miscellaneous

• Blanch 5 cups of bean sprouts, 2 cups of kangkung/morning glory (cut into 1 inch length)
• Blanch 1kg chinese vermicelli and 1kg hokkien noodles (yellow noodles)
• Prepare 5 hard boiled eggs
• 3 fried fish cakes, thinly sliced
• Store-bought fried crispy shallots
• Store-bought roast pork (or you can make your own roast pork) 
• Remove pork belly from the stock and thinly slice it

Noodles, Vegetables, and Misc all ready

Assemble the dish

• Place a handful of vermicelli and hokkien noodles into a bowl
• Then, add some bean sprouts and kangkung/morning glory
• Top the vegetables with a few pieces of prawns, sliced pork belly, sliced fried fish cake 
• Pour the piping hot stock into the bowl, covering all the noodles
• Then add roast pork, hard boiled egg, sambal and fried shallots
• Serve

Penang Hokkien Mee partaayyy!!!

Delicious! Writing this is making me crave for the noodles. I might make it again...will you try it too? :)

Cheers.