Chinese Chowmein

Sunday is co-worker's birthday pot luck. The only thing I can do is cooking the real Chinese food. Since eating noodles is a Chinese tradition for birthday, so I made Chinese Chowmein. The long noodles I made means the person who has birthday is going to have a long life.

Happy birthday! my friend!

Now it is the instruction of how to make it.

1) Get some green beans from any grocery store.


2) Make sure you have the Chinese soy sauce in hands. I prefer this one that you can get it from a Chinese grocery store named Yishen at Chambers street.

3) Clean the green beans well and cut them like this to make long pieces to mimic noodles.

4) Put the prepared green beans into a container to be used.

5) Chopped some garlic, ginger and onions.

6) Heat a big pan and add some cooking oil (2 table spoon), and put the chopped onion, garlic and ginger in with some salt to cook them until they smell good.

7) Add the prepared green beans to the pan.

8) Stir fry they with the onion, garlic and ginger.

9) Add two table spoon of soy sauce and any other flavors you may like and stir them well, and then add half cup of water.

10) Open a bag of fresh egg spaghetti noodles which you can get it from any grocery store.

11) Use your hands loose them like this:

12) Put the loosed noodles in the pan ob top of the half cooked green beans.

13) close the top and let it steam for 10 -- 15 minutes to get the green beans and the noodles well cooked, but the bottom of the pan is not burnt.

14) Open the top and stir them well.

15) Add two table spoon sesame oil and stir them well.

16) Turn the heat off and put them in a plat ( in a baking pan if it is for a party).

18) Clean some mild hot peppers.

19) Cut them as small pieces.

20) Clean some lemon Basil which you can get it from Asian store.

21) Put the lemon basil and peppers together, add some salt.

22) Add some sesame oil.

23) Stir them together well.

24) Serve it with the Chinese Chowmein and orange juice. You will like it!