Beef Chow Fun Noodles(Pan-Fried Ho Fun)

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Beef chow fun(pan-fried flat rice noodles) is one of my favorite Cantonese dishes. It is considered as a snack or sometimes a staple food and one of the most basic Cantonese he fun dishes. The ingredient–flat rice noodle is named as “河粉” HeFun in China. Sometimes you may find it spelled as Hor Fun, He Fen or Ho Fun. It is a kind of flat and wide rice noodles  in southern china especially in Guangdong province. Either served in stir fry recipes or soup recipes. I fall I love it when I firstly had a small bowl of ho fun soup. And this stir fry ho fun with beef, onion, bean sprout and Chinese chives.It belongs to those 15 minutes that can totally win my heart.

Then for the beef chow fun, let’s take a look at the ingredients. As I am living in Guangdong province, I can purchase fresh ho fun easily at market. You can also used dried flat rice noodles and re-soak until soft before frying.

Ingredients

• 1/2 pound beef
• 1 pound wide rice noodle , ho fen
• 1 small bunch of Chinese chive or scallion , cut into sections around 10cm long
• 1 small bunch of bean sprouts
• 1/4 middle size white onion , shredded

Marinade sauce

• 1 tablespoon Chinese cooking wine or water
• 1 teaspoon light soy sauce
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 tablespoon oyster sauce
• 1 teaspoon sesame oil
• 1 tablespoon starch

Stir fry sauce

• 1/2 tablespoon light soy sauce
• 1 teaspoon dark soy sauce
• 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
• 1/2 teaspoon sugar

Instructions

1. Cut beef into thin slices, put into a bowl. And then add all of ingredients for marinade sauce. Stir until well combined and set aside for around 15 minutes.
2. Heat up cooking oil in wok. Add beef slices in to cook around half minute or just until the color of beef slices changes. Transfer the beef slices out and also pour the oil out. Clean your pan or wok.
3. Heat up around 1 and 1/2 tablespoons cooking oil, add rice noodle and onion shreds and straight after that stir in the stir fry sauce. Keep tossing your pan or wok until the noodles are well coated with the sauce.
4. Return beef slices and bean sprouts to fry for another half minutes. Keep tossing your pan.
5. Add Chinese chives or scallion to fry for another 30 seconds.
6. Serve hot!

Recipe Notes

I do not add salt in my stir fry sauce since my soy sauce contains salt. Do add some according to taste and the brand of soy sauce.

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