Work in progress

I got this recipe from The Woks of life. I first cooked it as an experiment on 22 April 2025. Here's my “next time” recipe. The sauce quantities are influenced by this recipe. I then modified it on 22 May 2025 and again on 3 June 2025 and 19 June 2025. On each occasion I changed the composition of the sauce, and the one below represents the “next time” proportions.

Ingredients

Per serving

quantity		ingredient		step
100 g		gai lan (Chinese broccoli)		1
20 g		garlic		1
		oil for cooking		1
60 g		beef flank		2
5 g		garlic		2
15 g		oyster sauce		3
8 g		sugar		3
10 g		light soya sauce		3
15 g		dark soya sauce		3
15 g		vinegar		3
15 g		fish sauce		3
1		egg		4
180 g		Fresh wide rice noodles (Kway teow)		5

Preparation

1. Cut the gai lan and fry with garlic. Reserve.
2. Cut the beef into slices about 1.5 cm on a side. Mix with the garlic and allow to permeate. Fry in a very hot pan until cooked. Reserve.
3. Mix the sauce ingredients.
4. Beat the egg and add to the pan. Fry and break up into small pieces.
5. Add the noodles and sauce and heat on extreme heat to caramelize. Take care not to break up the noodles
6. Lower heat, add the reserved ingredients and mix.

My photos from the first time are a guide at best. They were done with much narrower noodles, and they broke up far too much:

On 22 May 2025 I ended up with this:

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And on 3 June 2025, with more flavour sauces and frying the noodles by themselves, I got:

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Notes

This recipe might also be interesting, but I found it difficult to read. It doesn't seem obviously different from the other two (The Woks of life and recipetineats).

The Woks of Life recipe includes things that I haven't found necessary, including baking soda, cornflour and white pepper. One day I might revisit that decision.