Fried Kway Teow or known more commonly in Hokkien, Char Kway Teow is a hawker dish of flat rice-flour noodles and yellow wheat noodles fried over high heat with various ingredients flavoured with either dark soya sauce or sweet dark soya sauce. Some stalls include lard while some do not in a bid to offer healthier version. The Chinese Characters for Fried Kway Teow are 炒粿条 (Hanyu Pinyin: Cao Guo Tiao).
The Singapore’s version of Fried Kway Teow (Char Kway Teow) is more commonly fried in sweet dark soya sauce while the Malaysia’s version is fried in dark soya sauce. In Penang, Fried Kway Teow (Char Kway Teow) is fried with light soya sauce with only flat rice-flour noodle (Kway Teow) without the yellow wheat noodle. The flat rice-flour noodles (Kway Teow) are chopped into small fragments during frying.
The ingredients added to the flat rice-flour noodle (Kway Teow) are usually eggs, cockles, bean sprouts, fishcake cut in slices, thin slices of Chinese sausage (腊肠 Hanyu Pinyin: La Chang). There is also a variation to this dish where most of these ingredients are replaced by beef slices. This dish is known as Fried Beef Kway Teow (牛肉炒粿条, Hanyu Pinyin: Niu Rou Cao Guo Tiao). It was a very popular dish sold by the Fried Kway Teow stall in National University of Singapore’s Art Faculty Canteen. The old couples who operated this stall at the canteen have retired for many years. Some Singapore restaurants also serve Fried Beef Kway Teow if they serve local dishes.
Recipe:
Ingredients:
- Water
- Sweet dark soya sauce
- Cooking oil
- Diced pork lard
- Garlic
- Thin slices of Chinese sausage
- Thin slices of Fried fishcake
- Flat rice-flour noodles (Kway Teow)
- Yellow Hokkien noodles
- Chee sim
- Bean sprouts
- Eggs
- Cockles
Procedure:
- Heat oil in wok medium heat.
- Fry diced pork lard to to add flavour to the oil.
- Add garlic and stir fry until brown.
- Add and fry Chinese sausages, cockles and fish cake.
- Add and fry rice-flour noodles and yellow Hokkien noodles.
- Add sweet dark soya sauce. Mix the sauce thoroughly with noodles and ingredients.
- Add vegetables and fry.
- Push the noodles and other ingredients either to a side or create a hole in the middle of the woke and pour in the eggs. Stir and mix the eggs until it begins to thicken and then mix it with the rest of the noodles and other ingredients.