Drama Inspired Recipe: Kin-Chan’s Yakisoba

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In Episode 5 of Mischievous Kiss: Love in Tokyo, Kotoko and her class are celebrating their high school graduation. Kin-chan brings various sorts of oiishi food. One thing that he brings is a fried noodle dish–aka yakisoba.

The literal translation is “fried buckwheat.” Yakisoba is most commonly prepared by frying the noodles in a wok. It generally has pork, vegetables (onion, carrots, cabbage), yakisoba sauce, salt, and pepper.

Looks so yummy!



Ingredients

The ingredients that I needed took a while to find in the Asian market (as usual). After some time of walking back and forth in front of the freezers, I finally found the yakisoba noodles (I was looking for buckwheat, but I was excited to find the exact noodles that I needed). The oyster sauce search too the same amount of time and effort. I was a little annoyed that trying to find the two ingredients was taking a long time. But alas, I found them.

Cooking

I’ve come to realized that there are a few things that I need to learn how to cook. Rice flour is one–which we don’t need for this recipe. And noodles is another. The only noodles I know how to make are pasta and pre-packaged ramen noodles. While cooking this recipe, I realized that I may need to plan more noodle time, so I can become more familiar with the ingredient.

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Kin-Chan's Yakisoba

Ingredients

  • 4 slices of bacon
  • 1/2 bag of cubed carrots and peas
  • 1 package of yakisoba noodles
  • 1 tbsp olive oil
  • 1 tsp soy sauce
  • salt
  • pepper
  • Oyster sauce

Instructions

  • Cut the bacon into pieces 2 cm wide.
  • In a bowl, combine the yakisoba noodles, olive oil, and soy sauce; stir.
  • In heated pan, place noodles in; fry until fragrant.
  • Move noodles to edge. Add bacon. Fry until fragrant. Mix together. Place to side.
  • Add the peas and carrots; Fry until veggies cooked through. Stir together.
  • Add salt, pepper, oyster sauce. Stir together.



Afterthoughts

This recipe is a simpler version. I got it from a Japanese cooking show. The ingredients are simple and so is the whole process. I didn’t have any green onions and so I instead added peas and carrots. I want to attempt this recipe again with the green onions. Because when I was done cooking, it reminded me of pancit except different noodles and chicken.



What is your favorite noodle dish?

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