Homestyle Stir-fry Rice Vermicelli

Serves: 3-4
Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 20 minutes

INGREDIENTS

250g dried rice vermicelli
2 large eggs, beaten
3 - 4 cloves garlic, chopped
1/3 cup minced pork, beef, chicken or roughly chopped prawns (marinate with salt and pepper)
1/3 cup sliced Chinese sausage, bacon, fried fish cake or any leftover meat (optional)
1 medium carrot, shredded with mandoline
4 cabbage leaves, sliced
11/2 cup beansprouts
3 stalks of spring onion (scallion), chopped
1 tsp of chicken stock granules/bullion
1 tbsp chopped fresh chilli (optional)
ground white pepper and light soy sauce, to taste
cooking oil

DIRECTIONS

Soak the dried noodles with cold or lightly warm tap water till soften. Drain with colander and shake the noodles to release as much water as you can. Leave aside for 10 minutes before stir frying.
Prepare the other ingredients.
When wok is hot add about 1 - 1.5 tbsp oil, spread oil around the wok. When almost smoking hot, add in the egg spread it evenly to form a thin omelette. Brown on one side, flip over and break the omelette into small bite size with turner. Remove and set aside.
Add more oil in wok (about 1.5 tbsp) and half of the garlic. Stir then add meat/prawn and lap cheong or bacon (if using cooked meat, fish cake or prawns, add in a little later till raw meat is cooked. Stir till meat is cooked and fragrant. Add dash of light soy.
Add cabbage and carrot, stir till vegetables are soften. Add more soy and chicken stock granules to taste. Can add a little water to create steam to cook the vegetables. When vegetables are soften add beansprouts. Stir briefly. Remove and set aside.
Add about 1.5 tbsp of oil in wok, when wok is really hot add remaining chopped garlic follow by the noodles. Stir and toss with chopsticks, to loosen and stir fry till noodles are hot. Drizzle on some light soy while stirring to evenly mix soy with noodles. Stir till noodles are cooked through and hot.
Add in omelette, meat and vegetables. Stir briefly.
Turn off heat. Add in spring onion and noodles. Add ground pepper. Tease and toss the noodles, so the noodles are loosen and mix evenly with the vegetables, meat and egg. Ready to eat.

Notes:

To make delicious stir fried rice vermicelli, the noodles must be soaked with cold or lightly warm water, never use boiling water and do not over soak.
You can eat on its own or drizzle with your favourite chilli sauce or add fresh chilli to the stir fry.
Other vegetables can be used are woodears, shitake mushroom, pak choi, Chinese cabbage, onion, leeks, Sichuan preserved vegetable (zha chai), jicama (mungkuang), fresh green beans. All vegetables are to be shredded, sliced or cut into bite size.

Source: http://sunflower-recipes.blogspot.com/2010/06/homestyle-stir-fried-rice-vermicelli.html