Longevity Noodles (Seh Jit Mee) Recipe
Birthday recipes

A birthday Specialty for the Hokkiens

Ingredients

Main:
905 g/2 lb
905 ml/32 fl oz
455 g/1 lb
455 g/1 lb
455 g/1 lb
455 ml/16 fl oz
1 tsp
2 cloves
5
3 tbsp
1 tsp

Garnish:
225 g/8 oz
225 g/8 oz

3
1/2 tsp

3 tbsp
2 stalks
2 bunches
3 fresh

Special sauce :
8
2.5cm x2.5cm x0.6cm
1

fresh yellow noodle (Hokkien mee)
water for pork stock
pork ribs
belly pork
prawns
water for prawn stock
salt
garlic
shallots
cooking oil
light soya sauce

bean sprouts
greens (chye sim)
pinch of salt
eggs
salt
tiny pinch of pink coloring
cooking oil
spring onions
coriander leaves
red chilies


fresh red chilies
prawn paste (belacan)
lime (limau Kesturi)

Method:

For main:

1. Scald noodle and put aside.

2. Boil 905 ml/32 fl oz water. Add pork ribs and belly pork. When the latter is cooked, remove and shred finely. Put aside. Leave the pork ribs to simmer.

3. Shell, de-vein and dice prawns. Prepare 455 ml/16 fl oz prawn stock. Mix prawn stock with pork stock and allow to simmer over very low fire. Add salt.

4. Grind or pound garlic and shallots together into a smooth paste.

5. Heat oil, lower fire and fry garlic/ shallot paste until fragrant. Add shredded belly pork, diced prawns and light soy sauce. Stir well.

6. Discard pork ribs from the stock. Add sautéed prawns and pork into stock. Allow to simmer for a while and gravy is ready.

For garnish:

1. Nip roots of bean sprouts and blanch. Boil with a pinch of salt. Drain and put aside.

2. Cut greens into lengths of 5 cm (2 in). Boil with a pinch of salt. Drain and put aside.

3. Beat eggs thoroughly. Add salt. Divide into 2 lots. Add-tiny pinch coloring to one lot only. Mix well.

4. Heat oil and fry as many thin omelet as possible from the 3 eggs. Roll then and shred thinly. Put aside separately yellow shreds and pink shreds.

5. Chop spring onions and coriander leaves.

6. Slice thinly fresh red chilies

For special sauce:

1. Seed chilies

2. Prepare prawn paste.

3. Grind or pound chilies and prawn paste together coarsely to produce sambal.

4. Squeeze lime over sambal and mix well.

For serving:

1. Take required amount of noodles on soup dish and garnish with bean sprouts, chye sim and egg strips. Then pour 1-2 ladlefuls of gravy over noodles. Other garnishes and sambal are optional.