Mee Betawi

POINT TO PONDER

People sometimes give you the condescending look or even remark. You should just ignore it.

If you have some intelligent way of responding that could put them down, do it. You will be happy about it or even make the other person think about what he or she has said or done. However, if you have none, just keep quite and walk away. Such people is not worth fighting for.


INGREDIENTS

1 cereal bowl of beef (cut up to bite size. Boil this, at least one hour ahead. Do not discard the beef stock. You need that for the soup. )
1/2 cereal bowl of prawn (peeled)

To be pounded:
3 Bird's Eye Chilli
1 1/2 golf ball of onion
3 cloves of garlic
2 thumb-sized of ginger

Spices:
4 Bunga Lawang
3 inches of cinnamon
3 Pelaga
3 Chengkih

1 kg Yellow Noodles
Soya Sauce (for the colour and taste) 
Sugar (a little bit)
2 tsp Corn Flour
Sayur Sawi (separate the stalk from the leaves when you cut this up)

2 eggs (optional) 
Olive oil


Garnishing:
Fried Shallots 

Pickled Green Chilli (to eat with)

 How to make it?

1. Heat up the wok.
2. Add in the Olive Oil.
3. Once it is heated, fry the Spices for about ten seconds.
4. Then, add in the pounded ingredients.
5. Once the pounded ingredients start to sizzle, pour a little bit of the stock.
6. Allow the stock to dry up.
7. Then, pour about 3 cereal bowl of beef stock. (If you have access, keep the stock in the fridge for tomorrow's vegetable.)
8. Allow the stock to boil and reduce in amount.
9. Put in the prawn and the Sawi stalk.
10. Once the stock is boiled, pour in the Corn Flour which you have liquidized with the beef stock.
11. Stir until it thickens. (The fire should be low though.)
12. You may want to break in the eggs at this stage.
13. Just before you dining, add in the Yellow Noodles and mix them well together with the Sawi leaves.

MY THOUGHTS

The taste is quite different. The boys do not seem to fall in love with it. However, Ayah loves it.

His comment:
It is the correct colour and look. The taste is there. You can cook this again.

My opinion:
I am not used to this. The above recipe is actually a combination of two recipes. Would I want to eat it again? Since Ayah loves it, why not.