Mee Siam is a Nyonya dish and it means Thai Noodles in Malay. It taste spicy and sour.
I usually use a ready made fried beehoon condiment in a packet. It would be fun making it from scratch this time.
Ingredients
5 dried chilli, tamarind, 6 shallots, 3 cloves of garlic, oil, 1 tablespoon fish sauce, 1 tablespoon miso (tau chu substitute), salt to taste, 150gram beehoon (rice vermicelli), 2 blocks hard tofu (tau kwa), 1.5 cups of bean sprouts (taugeh), spring onion, water, sugar to taste
Method
a. Beehoon preparation
1. Soak beehoon for half an hour and dry it in a colander for half an hour
b. Fried tofu
1. Cut the tofu into small rectangular block
2. Heat oil and fry until brown
c. Fried beansprout
1. Chop up 1 shallot and 1 clove of garlic
2. Fry shallot until brown, add in garlic
3. Add in beansprouts and spring onion
4. Add salt to taste
d. Mee siam paste
1. Add boiling water to dried chilli and soak for 30 minutes
2. Remove chilli seed
3. Use a mortar and pestle to pound soaked chilli, 2 cloves garlic, 5 shallot into a paste
4. Add oil, fry until aromatic and cooked (when oil divides from the paste)
5. Add in tau chu/ tau chu substitute, sugar to taste, salt to taste, tamarind
6. Put aside half of it
e. Mee Siam
1. Add beehoon into half of the mee siam paste
2. Stir fry it and add fish sauce
3. Add in fried beansprout and tofu
4. Add water to desired consistency, add more mee siam paste if you would like it spicier, add more tamarind if you would like it sour, add some salt to taste
