Kai See Hor Fun (鸡丝河粉)

Kai See Hor Fun” (鸡丝河粉) or shredded chicken flat rice noodles. This is an amazingly satisfying dish and the best thing is that it is so easy to cook. Well it is easy if you do not want to have prawn oil topping. Even with prawn oil it is not that difficult. I always like to cook this if I have fresh hor fun from the noodles factory in London Chinatown. Otherwise I do not like the dry noodles. Tried once and it is just not the same.

For the prawn oil you will need to do a bit more work but I often do it when the mood is in. I will buy a couple kilos of fresh prawns and then will clean and peel, fry the heads and such to make the oil. They keep well in my cupboard for a month or in the fridge for longer perhaps but mine never lasted that long.

I always boil my water, place in my cleaned chicken and then turn the heat off and let the chicken bath happily overnight. I do not like rush cooking. The next day I will shred the chicken, keeping the legs and wings parts. I salt them, adding sesame oil and boxed into my fridge for another meal.

So to put a meal together is just a matter of rinsing the fresh hor fun in hot water and plating into bowls.