In Episode 5 of Mischievous Kiss: Love in Tokyo, Kotoko and her class are celebrating their high school graduation. Kin-chan brings various sorts of oiishi food. One thing that he brings is a fried noodle dish–aka yakisoba.
The literal translation is “fried buckwheat.” Yakisoba is most commonly prepared by frying the noodles in a wok. It generally has pork, vegetables (onion, carrots, cabbage), yakisoba sauce, salt, and pepper.
Ingredients
The ingredients that I needed took a while to find in the Asian market (as usual). After some time of walking back and forth in front of the freezers, I finally found the yakisoba noodles (I was looking for buckwheat, but I was excited to find the exact noodles that I needed). The oyster sauce search too the same amount of time and effort. I was a little annoyed that trying to find the two ingredients was taking a long time. But alas, I found them.
Cooking
I’ve come to realized that there are a few things that I need to learn how to cook. Rice flour is one–which we don’t need for this recipe. And noodles is another. The only noodles I know how to make are pasta and pre-packaged ramen noodles. While cooking this recipe, I realized that I may need to plan more noodle time, so I can become more familiar with the ingredient.
Kin-Chan's Yakisoba
Ingredients
- 4 slices of bacon
- 1/2 bag of cubed carrots and peas
- 1 package of yakisoba noodles
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tsp soy sauce
- salt
- pepper
- Oyster sauce
Instructions
- Cut the bacon into pieces 2 cm wide.
- In a bowl, combine the yakisoba noodles, olive oil, and soy sauce; stir.
- In heated pan, place noodles in; fry until fragrant.
- Move noodles to edge. Add bacon. Fry until fragrant. Mix together. Place to side.
- Add the peas and carrots; Fry until veggies cooked through. Stir together.
- Add salt, pepper, oyster sauce. Stir together.
Afterthoughts
This recipe is a simpler version. I got it from a Japanese cooking show. The ingredients are simple and so is the whole process. I didn’t have any green onions and so I instead added peas and carrots. I want to attempt this recipe again with the green onions. Because when I was done cooking, it reminded me of pancit except different noodles and chicken.
What is your favorite noodle dish?
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