0001 - Mee Goreng

I have no idea where & how the dish Mee Goreng came from but it is pretty famous in Singapore, Malaysia & Indonesia. Of course there are 101 variations to this dish coz you can literally mix up the ingredients to suit your tastebusds. It's a pretty simple one to make i suppose :)


Dark Soya Sauce is a must in my mum's recipe. She doesn't gauge the amount by tablespoons, but rather by the taste of the dish overall. So basically, it's how much & how little you want to have this in your dish.
Light Soya Sauce is the defining ingredient. Once you throw this in, you can definitely forget about ading salt. Too much of this will result in a very salty Mee Goreng, and of course too little will be too bland. The best bet is to actually just add a little if you're using Yellow Noodles, coz the noodles itself is quite salty on its own.


First of all, if you wanna have eggs in this dish, here's what we did.
Heat up the wok with a little bit of oil, enough to fry 2 or 3 pieces of Chicken eggs - entirely up to you how much eggs you want. Break them eggs when it's well heated and mash them all up together immediately. It's not supposed to be fried fully coz it's actually just right to have it done in fresh whites & yellows. Quickly switch the fire off and scoop them eggs into a bowl, push it aside on the kitchen counter.
After all of that, that's when you heat up your wok again with an unforgiving amount of oil. Here's when the real deal begins. Haha!
Mix bawang merah (4x), bawang putih (2x) and lada kering (maybe 1 handful) in a blender.
The wok of oil should be pretty hot by now, and it's the best time to mix them all in. The house would be scented with the mixture of chilli when you do this. Seriously, it can whet your appetite. Haha. But you might want to have the fan running to avoid the smell sticking on to the sofas, clothes, etc.
You should also have an array of other ingredients ready before-hand. This one here, we've got peeled & totally cleansed prawn, sotong (squid), vegetables & even crabsticks.
Mix the prawn & sotong first in the heated mixture of chilli & oil and let them all simmer for maybe 3-5 minutes.


Last ingredient to throw in will be the vegetables. Mix them all up really good and let it simmer for a minute. You're good to go by then.


And there we go! Served best when it's hot with a sprinkle of dried onion flakes (bawang goreng).

:)