This is my favourite dish at World Wrapps. Every time I ate it, I looked at the ingredients, thinking: this has to be very easy to make. So here it is, A super easy, fast, delicious dish. If you like Japanse sushi, wasabi, salmon, avacodo, you will like this dish.
cook rice in a rice cooker.
place rice in a plate
fry salmon in a pan with very little cooking oil, break them into small pieces. cut cucumber, avocado into small cubes, put everything on top of rice add some small pieces of sea weed
Mix wasabi with diluted soy sauce (I always add water so it does not get too salty or the color become too dark)
pour the sauce on rice.
mix, and enjoy.
Fast, and easy. In less than 20 minutes, you can have a very nice dinner.
If you google 'hand-pulled noodle', you will see a lot different ways of pulling noodle. The one very popular in my home town is wide, flat, you only pull it once. I have not gone back to my home town for years, never thought I could reproduce this one :)
But never say never, now I can make it at home this delicious noodle soup. With the help of my bread machine, the kneading part became easy.
I experiment with different kinds flours, and bread flour is the best.
the dough: 2 cup of bread flour 2/3 cup of water --I don't like put the amount, different flour requires different amount water, so add water slowly. 1/2 tea spoon salt 1/2 tea spoon baking powder.
knead for 30 minutes ~ 1 hour. cover the dough, let it sit for 1 or 2 hours
knead and make it into small pieces like this: 5 mm thick, 25~40 mm long brush some cooking oil on all sides. use a chop stick to press vertically in the middle. ( this is for later spliting the noodle into two)
cover them, put in the fridge for at least 2 ~3 hours. I usually let it sit over night.
Prepare the soup base.
Costco lamb pieces with bones. put the lamb in the boiling hot water for one minutes, drain the water.
in a big pot, put lamb in the cold water. add big pieces green onion. I personally don't like putting so many chinese herb. If you like, you can add anything. Green onion helps to reduce some the unpleasant lamb smell (not sure if this is true:):)
boil the soup on high heat for 1 ~ 2 hours, reduce to medium to low heat for another 2 ~3 hours:) ---I don't wait, add enough water, watch a movie:)
add salt to taste
When it is time, get the dough out of the fridge, now magic happens:
pull the noodle really long. then split it from the middle. put in the hot boiling soup.
boil 5 minutes, add some mushroom (Auricularia auricula-judae ?) or some seaweed, or any vegitables you like.
serve in a big bowl. add some cilantro if you like
I have put the lamb pieces at the bottom. so it does not show in the picture. the lamb is soft and tender.
Enjoy. I have showed off this noodle to a few of my non Chinese friends, parents and kids all like it.
It looks complicated, but most of the time is just waiting time, you don't really have to do too much work. and it can be a party where everybody tries out to pull a piece
I don't think I can become as good as this guy ever :). We took this video last month while we were visiting Beijing:)
During my trip to Beijing, I once ordered an interesting tea in a Korean restaurant near my hotel. The name of tea means: Pomelo tea. Pomelo is a kind of Chinese grapefruit. I really like the taste, thought it was made of fresh pomelos, and you can see the pieces of pomelo floating. I was thinking to look up on the internet to see how they made it.
Last week I went to Han Cook Supermarket at Santa Clara. for grocery shopping, I saw a big pile of bottles on say: on the bottle, it says Pomelo tea!
It is very simple to make. take one or two table spoon in a cup, add water( cold or hot) , then stir. I personally like hot better
I love the taste. Avril loves it. She never liked cold water, but this time she demands to have it warm. It is a little too sweet, so I always add a lot water to dilute it. (more than the instruction recommends)
You can find many other similar bottle but different flavor: Jujube tea, Honey Aloe, Lemon, ginger, papaya...
My husband has a problem of me calling them 'tea'. To him, the tea has to have 'tea leave' in it. To Chinese, we may call everything tea if it is hot and it some flavor tea. Actually in my home village, people even call hot water tea:)
