Chow Mein Copycat

Do you love eating Asian dishes? How about noodles? Guilty here. Asian dishes with noodles are so delicious, and they make you crave for more. Asian noodles are usually cooked by stir-frying them with meat, vegetables or seafoods and putting in some oyster sauce to make it more flavourful.

If you are not familiar with stir-frying, here is a little information about it. You will need to use a wok for this cooking method. This is a Chinese way of cooking where the ingredients are fried in a small amount of hot oil while being stirred in a wok. A wok is a round-bottomed cooking utensil.

Are you trying to recreate a dish from your favorite Chinese restaurant? �We have this copycat recipe of Panda Express' chow mien.Have you been to Panda Express? If not, here is a little information about them. Panda Express is a fast casual restaurant chain which serves American- Chinese cuisine in the United States. This was founded in 1983 by Andrew, Peggy and Ming Tsai Cherng. It is the USA's largest American-Chinese restaurant business.

Here is an interesting fact about the famous Chow mein, This is a popular Chinese stir-fried noodle dish. The word is Mandarin Chinese, but the pronunciation of Chow Mein came from the Taishan dialect of Chinese. In cooking this dish, It is important to have lots of wok hei. What is a wok hei? This is a Chinese word which means breath of wok or wok thermal radiation. This is the flavor, tastes and essence imparted by a hot wok on a morsel of food during stir-frying. To impart a wok hei in the traditional way, the food is cooked in a seasoned wok over a high flame while being stirred and tossed quickly. This explains why chef's do a lot of quick tossing using a wok.

Panda Express have their own noodles which are made just for them. If you want to recreate their chowmein, Yakisoba noodles would be the prefect substitute. These noodles look just the same as what Panda Express use but I think their only difference is the texture. This recipe is very simple yet very flavourful. Not only it is tasty but a time saver too. Imagine in 15 minutes, you have your delicious Chowmein!

Please visit the 'Rasa Malaysia' website to get the full recipe ingredients and procedures.