Char Kuey Teow ........ Desperate

Once in a while, you just cannot help but miss the easy access of 24 hours restaurants back home. Where I am now every shop comes with a time limit and worst they are not even open on Sundays. Recently, I was pining so much for a simple plate of Char Kuey Teow.

When you have very limited resources at hand, you just learn to improvise with whatever is reachable, since I wanted to eat Char Kuey Teow, so that’s exactly what will be served. I shall call this plate the desperate Char Kuey Teow.

Ingredients: 1 small packet of dried Kuey Teow (soaked overnight), ½ kg of beef (thinly sliced), spring onion, chives, 5 cloves of garlic (crushed), 3 tblspoons cooking oil, 2 tblspoons oyster sauce, 2 tblspoons soya sauce, some fish sauce, and ½ teaspoon crushed dried chili.

Method: heat oil in large wok, add crushed garlic, fry till fragrant add thinly sliced beef, fry till beef change color, add the Kuey Teow, let it fry for 8 minutes, add all the sauces and crushed dried chili, add ½ cup of water, let fry for 10 minutes, add spring onion and chives.

The taste was fantastic, go try.