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Hello All - I just had a dish of Drunken Noodles at a local spot here in Boston that was utterly amazing... I wondered how to best make this dish? My concern here is the wide rice noodles - for some reason, rice noodles and I don't get along - I've tried many times to prepare them correctly, and end up with a quivering mass of pale white gelatin... what is the best way to prepare wide noodles so that they don't stick together, and yet they are still fully cooked? - AND, if you are to stir fry them, how 'cooked' do they have to be before you toss them in the wok?
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Re: wide rice noodles / drunken noodles
Thu, June 1, 2006 - 6:33 PMHere's my response for the same question in the "recipe exchange" tribe not too long ago:
Pad See Ew (aka Drunken Noodles)
Sauce:
1 T Dark Sweet Soy Sauce
1 T Oyster Sauce
1T Fish Sauce
1T Brown Sugar
1 Egg
Thinly Sliced Carrots
Broccoli
Rice Noodles (if you can find wide squares of rice noodles, that's the best - looks like giant flakes or use extra wide rice sticks)
Meat (beef is most common, but you can do chicken, shrimp, tofu or none at all)
Marinade for meat:
1 clove garlic
1 egg
1 T cornstarch
1 T rice wine
1 T fish sauce
1T oyster sauce
1 T brown sugar
1 t sesame oil
1/2 t white pepper
Marinade meat for at least 10 minutes. Soak noodles in hot water until almost cooked (or boil for less than one minute, you don't want them to become mushy).
Heat wok/pan to medium high. Add meat. Add broccoli, carrots, noodles and sauce.
If you're not using meat this is the order we found makes the best pad see ew - Garlic and oil, then egg. Just before the egg is done cooking, add the sauce, add the broccoli, then the noodles.
I have a bag of frozen trader joe's broccoli in the freezer and make this when there's nothing else around. The noodles are dry and keep forever. Hope you like it! It's from my favorite thai cookbook.
Here's a link to the cookbook I use (I love it - it hasn't steered me wrong yet!): www.amazon.com/gp/product...830-0072630 -
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Re: wide rice noodles / drunken noodles
Thu, June 1, 2006 - 7:57 PMI think John was looking for Pad Kee Mao?
importfood.com/recipes/dr...hicken.html
I love both pad kee mao and pad see ewe.
We used to spice it up with the "Man Sauce" for the employee meal at a thai restaurant I worked at. Yum... -
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Re: wide rice noodles / drunken noodles
Thu, June 1, 2006 - 8:33 PMHmm... good point. I've seen drunken noodles labelled for both. -
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Re: wide rice noodles / drunken noodles
Fri, June 2, 2006 - 7:05 AMI`m a little confused, both recipes look de-lish, but if there is no alcohol in them, how are they drunken noodles? I am only basing this on my friends fab. recipe for drunken prawns which calls for Jack Daniels in the sauce.
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Re: wide rice noodles / drunken noodles
Fri, June 2, 2006 - 7:45 AMi think drunken refers to the "sauciness" of the noodles. -
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Unsu...
Re: wide rice noodles / drunken noodles
Fri, June 2, 2006 - 8:51 AMA-Ha!
I knew you would know what the answer was!! tee hee hee!
Have a great day, thanks! -
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Re: wide rice noodles / drunken noodles
Sat, June 3, 2006 - 6:35 AMThai translation is drunken.. ;) -
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Re: wide rice noodles / drunken noodles
Sat, June 3, 2006 - 7:53 AMah ha! so, is drunken noodles pad kee mao or pad see ew? -
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Re: wide rice noodles / drunken noodles
Sat, June 3, 2006 - 2:56 PMTri and all -
The thread was NOT in vain...! I made drunken noodles / pad kee mao / pad see ew last night. I remembered that Tri had posted a great recipe for this. I made just a few minor alterations, adding a pinch of fermented black beans, and a bit of lime juice to the sauce. It did taste excellent - the oyster sauce-combined sauce part was very delicious. I've never actually used oyster sauce before, I'm surprised at how rich and complex tasting it is.
My only mistake is that I cooked (probably) too much, so there ended up being more veges than noodles - not that anyone minded (I cooked for three). Everyone loved it.
The noodles are far easier to handle than I thought - in fact, REALLY easy. Previously I'd boiled them until they were soft, then tried to fry them, and ended up with a big mess. I used both tofu and chicken, and they were rather nice together.
This will be the new favourite dish for a while, I know!
J -
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Re: wide rice noodles / drunken noodles
Tue, June 6, 2006 - 8:48 PMI love noodle of the drunk! I have made it with wide rice noodles, only stir-frying for a matter of seconds and adding thai holy basil, chilies, oyster sauce and fish sauce, green pepper and tomato with lime juice to finish -
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Re: wide rice noodles / drunken noodles
Mon, June 12, 2006 - 7:24 PMI noticed that tomato really does give it a zing... I made them again a few nights ago... this is a dish I'll keep toying with until I get it as good as it was in the restaurant I was in... I wonder if I could ask them what their secret is... hmmm...
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Re: wide rice noodles / drunken noodles
Mon, June 5, 2006 - 7:42 AMpad "kee mao" is drunken noodles... ;) -
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Re: wide rice noodles / drunken noodles
Wed, June 14, 2006 - 8:38 PMIn "It rains fFshes" cook book she says that drunken relates to the fact that you must drink alot to cool the heat in the dish.
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