Prwan Noodle aka Hay Mee ~ Chef Wan

Source: Chef Wan

After watching Asia Food Channel, hosted by Chef Wan, shown us his aunty in Singapore cooked prawn noodle soup.  This is my favorite dish.  Each time I'm out for a meal, I would order prawn noodle soup.  So, y'day my families had homemade prawn noodle soup for dinner since it was my very first time to cook my own prawn noodle, I wasn’t so sure whether it can taste like one. But after I took the first sip of the broth, oh boy, this is so Real, as good as the prawn noodle I had at hawker center's stall....

Ingredients:
½ kg big prawns (wash clean)

6 cloves garlic ~ minced

2 tbsp white pepper

1” roasted shrimp paste

5g rock sugar

2 cubes of fish knor (u can use fish stock boullini)

1 tbsp dark soy sauce

Salt / Ajinomoto

Garnish ~ Blanch

1 packet water spinach

¼ g bean sprout

500g yellow noodle (called Hokkien noodle)

2 fish cakes ~ thinly sliced

Fried shallot

Directions:

1. Boil 15 cups of water in a big pot on medium heat, add the big prawn, together with the head & shell, and cook till the prawn turn pink.   Removed the prawn & peel the head & shell.  Set aside.  (Note: the water from the prawn, do not throw as needed to make a broth for the noodle)
2. Heat 2 tbsp of oil on a pan, sauté the garlic, roasted shrimp paste & white pepper for about 2 minutes.   Add the prawn head & shell & cook for another 5 minutes.  Pour the cook shells into the prawn broth & simmer for about 30 minutes or more.
3. Add rock sugar, fish cubes, dark soy sauce & salt/Ajinomoto.  Simmer till the rock sugar dissolve.
4. Sieve the soup & set aside.
5. To serve in a bowl, add the blanch water spinach on the bottom, noodle, bean sprout & garnished with prawns & sliced fish cakes.  Ladle the hot prawn broth & fried shallots.