Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Hakka Lo See Fun (Rice Pin noodles) with Minced Pork 客家肉碎老鼠粉


Home-made authentic Hakka Cuisine - part one

Recently, I bought a new cook book by Agnes Chang – "Delightful Snacks and Dim Sum" and was happy to find some authentic Hakka dishes in it. One of them was this simple noodle recipe -Hakka Lo See Fun (Rice Pin noodles) with Minced Pork .

Lo See Fun, literally in Cantonese it means "Mouse Noodle", is a type of rice noodle. I guessed the pin shape noodle was named after its shape being similar to a mouse?


This rice noodle is easily available in South East Asia countries especially in Malaysia and Singapore. They can also be found in Taiwan known as "米台目"and in Hong Kong known as "銀針粉". However, I doubt they are available in the Western countries. When I was in Auckland I was not able to find them in shops. Thanks to a friend for sharing her homemade rice pin noodle recipe, we got to enjoy it while we were there. I will share this homemade noodle experience in my next post.

If you are not able to get this specific type of rice pin noodle, you can replace it with other types of rice noodles such as "Lai Fun" 濑粉 or Hor Fun (Koey Teoh) 粿条 or just any other types of noodles preferred.

However, if you wish to challenge yourself in making your own rice pin noodle. Check out this post Home made  Lo See Fun, credit to my friend Yenny who shared this with me during my days in Auckland.

Hakka Lo See Fun (Rice Pin noodles) with Minced Pork 客家肉碎老鼠粉


HAKKA LO SEE FUN WITH MINCED PORK


INGREDIENTS:

Minced Meat:
250g minced meat
1 tbsp chopped garlic and shallots
3 tbsp oil
200g bean sprouts/Bok Choy/Choy sum
500g rice pin noodles (Lo See Fun)

Optional ingredients:
Fish balls/fish cakes/meat balls
Garnish:
2 stalks of spring onion, chopped (optional)

SEASONING:
1 tbsp fish sauce
1 tbsp light Soya sauce
1 tbsp Oyster sauce
1 tsp dark soya sauce
1 tsp sesame oil
100 ml water
Dash of pepper


METHOD:

  1. Blanch bean sprout/green veggie until cooked, dish up and set aside.
  2. Blanch Lo See Fun until hot. Dish up and drain.
  3. Heat up oil; sauté chopped shallots and garlic fragrant. Add minced pork, seasoning and stir-fry until cooked.
  4. Add in Lo See Fun and stir well, dish up in serving bowl, add in bean sprout/Choy Sum garnish with spring onion and serve hot.
客家肉碎老鼠粉

材料:

肉碎
250克肉末
1汤匙切碎的大蒜和青葱
3汤匙油

200克豆芽/白菜/菜心
500克老鼠粉

装饰
2棵青葱,切碎(可选)

调味料
1汤匙鱼露
1大匙酱油
1汤匙蚝油
1茶匙黑酱油
1茶匙麻油
100毫升水
少许胡椒粉

方法:

1。将豆芽/菜心灼熟,沥干备用。
2。将老鼠粉灼热,盛起沥干。
3。烧热油,爆香切碎的葱,蒜。加入肉末,调味炒至熟。
4。再加入老鼠粉炒匀,盛起,撒上葱和配上豆芽/菜心,趁热享用。

9 comments:

  1. I love 'lou she fun' in anyway....soup or stir fried. Sounds as delicious! Glad that you can still get the readymade LSF there too. Have a lovley evening.
    Good night,
    Kristy

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  2. Hi Yin. Haven't "seen" you for awhile. Glad you're back in action :D
    My girl loves this ... she calls it "worms" ... cooked in any way but my mum won't touch it with a 10 foot pole ... too much like worms, she says. You wonder if they're from the same family ... sigh.

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  3. Hey Yin, I've never come across this kinda rice noodles before. At least, not in the store here in the Gulf. Looks good!

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  4. Kristy:
    Great to have you back. :-)

    Ping:
    Yup, I had been MIA for awhile, so good to be back. You are absolutely right on the noodles similar to "worms" LOL

    Plateful:
    Yes, I doubt it availables over there. I could not get it in Auckland either.

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  5. Good to see u again, Yin! It's been a while since we last exchange words. Hope u'd a great vacation. The dish is just great especially for weekdays :)

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  6. This post really took me back to my childhood. This kind of noodle was my favourite when I was back home in Thailand. We have it as a noodle soup dish with mince pork, bean sprout, preserved cabbage, fried garlic & sping onion. Yum :)

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  7. looks lip smacking delicious...aww i'm going to raid my refrigerator right away for some MORE grub!!

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  8. Hi; just wonder do you have Lou Shu fun's recipe? Myself living in northeast of china and can't find any Lou Shu fun here. Would you mind to post it up if you can recall? Thanks for the big help!

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  9. babykiah 亲亲宝贝 :
    You are lucky, yes I have the recipe. In fact already in blog too. http://yinhomemade.blogspot.com/2011/06/homemade-lo-see-fun.html

    Since you mentioned it, I will edit and link the homemade loh su fun to this post too.

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