Recipe: Birthday Misua

Birthday misua (fine-noodle) or cha misua (stir-fried fine-noodle) is a traditional fujien dish that is served on someone's birthday to wish them a long life.

Serving: 8

Ingredients:
12 prawns, still in shell and with head
1/4 lb of pork shoulder, sliced into elongated 1-inch rectangular strips
2 carrots, julienned
6-8 cloves of garlic
2 cups of dried shitake mushroom
1 cup of salted roasted peanuts
8 quail eggs, boiled, shelled, and dyed red
3 chicken eggs, scrambled
2 spring onions, sliced
1/2 cup of stir fried sliced shallots
1 teaspoon of sesame oil

box misua
soy sauce
vegetable oil

Procedure:

Use medium heat for all of these.

Prawns
1. Stir fry a couple of cloves of garlic in vegetable oil in a pot.
2. Add prawns until it turns lightly orange.
3. Drizzle soy sauce (maybe a medicine cup worth or two)
4. When the prawns are cooked (orange), add enough water to lightly cover the prawns
5. Chop off the head with your spoon and set the body aside in a dish.
6. Leave the heads to simmer in low heat.
7. Shell the body and chop it into chunks.
8. Set the chunk aside.

Pork
1. Stir fry a couple of cloves of garlic in vegetable oil in a frying pan.
2. Add the sliced pork
3. Drizzle just enough soy sauce to color the meat.
4. When cooked, set the meat aside.
5. Pour all the liquid in the frying pan in the prawn juice.

Carrots
1. Microwave the carrots for 60-120 seconds on the microwave.
2. Stir fry a clove of garlic in vegetable oil.
3. Add carrots until cooked to the texture that you prefer.
4. Drizzle with soy sauce.
4. Set aside on a dish.

Mushroom
1. Stir fry a clove of garlic in vegetable oil.
2. Add the mushroom and stir for 2-3 minutes.
3. Drizzle with soy sauce.
3. Set aside on a dish.

Eggs
1. Scramble the eggs.
2. Slice or break into pieces.
3. Set aside.

Misua
1. Boil water, enough to cover the misua with a couple of inch of headroom
2. Put the entire box of misua in the boiling water.
3. After a minute or two, remove the misua from the water and put in a bowl.

Putting things together
1. Put the misua in the shrimp stock, mix until the noodles soak up the sauce.
2. Turn down the stove to low heat.
3. Add sesame oil to finish the noodle.
4. Transfer misua to a bowl.
5. Arrange all the other ingredients in pie segments over the misua (mushroom, carrots, peanuts, pork, scrambled eggs, red quail eggs.
6. Garnish with spring onions and shallots
7. Present colorful bowl.
8. Mix the ingredients before you serve.