Asian Noodles With Shrimp

 

This dish takes me back to hole-in-the-wall restaurants in Korea where people are sitting elbow to elbow, slurping noodles, while escaping a gloomy day of rain.  There’s a level of comfort that can’t be found in a gourmet, five-star restaurant.  It’s a dish you can make for just one for a dinner in front of the TV, or for a group of people on a night spent in.  The dish is familiar, comfortable, and very homey.

 

 

 

These noodles are a marriage between a stir fry and noodle soup.  A broth is made by boiling the shrimp in water which is later added to stir fried aromatics and oyster sauce.  The stir fried bean sprouts also let out a little bit of juice which really deepens the flavor and gives it a sophisticated lift that is desperately lost in instant noodles. 

 

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September 15 2009 | asian and noodles and recipe and seafood and thoughts | 6 Comments »