BLACK PEPPER EE MEE

Accidents can also lead to a good thing. No, I'm not referring to the time that you got your girlfriend pregnant. It was a cold, rainy night. We were fishing by the beach and the chill made me really hungry. So I went over to the seafood restaurant nearby and ordered a plate of fried ee fu noodles to go. Now, this dish does not normally have a lot of pepper in it, but maybe the chef was too lazy to wash the wok after preparing black pepper crabs, as the dish had that distinctive black pepper taste! 

Now, I've always been a sucker for spicy food, and that noodle dish that night got me craving for more, so every time I went there, I specified that I wanted black pepper ee fu noodles. The weird stares I got was worth the taste of those noodles! Really  excellent stuff!

Was at the supermarket earlier and I saw japanese mushrooms being sold really cheap, so I bought a box of them. I needed to finish off the ee mee, prawns and squid too so what better way to do that than to make this awesome dish!

Ingredients

Pork lard (if u can't take pork, any cooking oil with some sesame seed oil added in will do just fine)
2 prawns, shelled
1 squid, cut into rings
4 cloves of garlic, finely chopped
half a large onion, roughly sliced
1 tablespoon light soy sauce
1 tablespoon fish sauce
1 portion of ee mee, cooked to al dente
3 different types of japanese mushrooms (or you can just use your favourites)
Black pepper (if you think you have used enough, add a little more. After all, this dish is called Black Pepper ee mee! ;-) )

In a hot pan, saute the garlic and onions are slightly golden brown.
Add the mushrooms and let it sweat. The mushrooms will slightly shrink in size.
Add the prawns and squid, and when it's almost cooked, it's time to add the noodles. 
Now you can add all the sauces and black pepper, give it a good stir.
once everything is properly mixed, you can take it off the heat and plate it to serve.

I simply love this dish! The sweetness of the caramelised onions playing with the spiciness of roughly cracked back pepper, with the taste of the sea lingering in the background! Really excellent stuff! Good for a cold rainy night like tonight! And damm easy to make too!


Enjoy!