Mee Siam

Ingredients

• Ingredients
• 250 gm rice vermicelli or meehoon, soaked for five minutes and drained
• 200 gm beansprouts
• 250 gm prawns
• 2 pieces fried beancurd (tau kwa pok), sliced
• 100 gm garlic chives, cut into 4cm lengths
• 1/4 cup oil
• 1 tablespoon of tamarind concentrate, add 1/2 cup warm water
• 2 cups of water(for cooking prawns)
• Pound or blend
• 3 cloves garlic
• 6 shallots
• 1 tablespoon preserved soya beans (tau cheong)
• 50 gm dried prawns
• 12 dried chillies, seeded and soaked
• 2 pieces buah keras(candlenuts)
• 1 stalk serai (lemon grass) - sliced
• 1 thumb size belachan
• Seasoning
• 1 teaspoon sugar
• 1 teaspoon chicken stock granules
• 1/4 teaspoon pepper
• 1 tablespoon fish sauce
• Garnishing
• 4 kasturi or lemon wedges
• 2 hard-boiled eggs, sliced