Quick & Easy Stir Fried Mi Fen (Rice Noodle)

I often keep some ‘emergency’ ingredients at home for occasions when I need to cook a quick and simple meal and this is one of them.

Mi Fen or Rice Noodle is an easy-to-cook, inexpensive ingredient which can be stored for a few months and easily available. Depending what I have available in the fridge, this dish provides my family with a quick, healthy and yummy dinner, a much better option to burger and fries.

Ingredients (A): -
Carrot 1 whole
Bak Choi 2 whole stalks
Fish Cake 100g
Roast Pork* 150g
Minced garlic 1 clove / 1 tspn
Minced ginger 1 tspn

Ingredients (B): -
Rice Noodles 500g
Stewed Pork Slice 1 can (optional)
Water 2 Cup / 500ml

Marinade (A): -
Light soy sauce 1tblspn
Pepper
Sugar 1 tspn
Sesame Oil 1 tblspn

Marinade (B): -
Light soy sauce 1 tblspn
Dark soy sauce 1 tblspn
Salt 1 tspn
Pepper
Cooking wine or dry sherry 1 tblspn
Sesame Oil 1 tblspn

Method: -
Heat 1 tablespoon of vegetable cooking oil in a wok and add ½ the portions of the minced garlic and ginger.
Add carrots and vegetable stir fry with marinade (A), mix well and add fish cake and roast pork. Continue to stir fry until the vegetables are cooked. Transfer to a plate and set aside.
Heat 1 tablespoon of vegetable cooking oil and add the balance half of minced garlic and ginger. Add Stewed pork slice (roughly break it up with spoon), water and marinade (B). Add rice noodle spreading it evenly.
Cover the wok to simmer rice noodle, stirring it occasionally to ensure that all the rice noodle is softened evenly. Depending on the brand you buy, if the texture of gthe rice noodle is a little harder, just add another half to one cup of water accordingly.
When the water is almost drying up, the rice noodle should be soft. Add the cooked ingredients (A), continue to stir fry and mix evenly.

*Roast Pork - you can easily buy A$10 worth from your local Chinese Restaurant.

Remarks:-
For this dish, I will very often use ingredients that are readily available in my fridge or whatever I can buy at the supermarket at the very last minute. So you can replace some of the ingredients according to your liking. For example, instead of Bak Choi, use Cabbage and/or Leek. You can also turn this into a vegetarian dish by using prawn, baby corn, mushroom and toufu to replace the meat.