Pad See Ew

• Countless cravings for Madam Ma'ams in Austin finally pushed me to the point of trying to make my own Pad See Ew. The recipe below, I found to be a good start, but a couple more tries and maybe some additional vegetables in the stir fry would give it a few extra points in my book.
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• Ingredients
• 1 lb Chinese broccoli (I had to get this from a grocery in China town)
• 1 tablespoon dark soy sauce
• 1 egg
• Fresh flat rice noodles
• 2 cloves chopped garlic
• 2 tablespoons light soy sauce
• thinly sliced pork
• 1 tablespoon sugar

1. Give the broccolie a chop into ~1 inches pieces. I did the same for the pork.

2. Slice the noodles to your desired width (I did about 1" wide). The noodles I bought were already sliced in the other dimension.

3. In a really hot wok with some vegetable oil, drop in the garlic and get it going for about 30 seconds, then add the pork. The pork won't take long, so be sure to keep an eye on it. Quickly follow the pork (once almost cooked) with the noodles, soy sauces, and sugar. This will make a dark caramel colored appearance.

4. After a minute or two, drop in egg in to scramble it and follow closely with the broccoli; you could definitely add more veggies at this point. Once you feel that the broccoli is cooked slightly, then you are ready to serve and enjoy!

Youfan's Stir-Fry Carrots

Ingredients:

• 3 cups of shredded carrots (about 3 big carrots shredded or 1 pack pre-shredded) -- the pre-shredded will come out crunchier or cook longer for more flavor -- don't mind the extra carrots in the picture!
• 3-5 cloves of garlic
• 2 green onion
• 1/3 inch ginger (or 1 tsp minced)
• 1 tbsp oil
• 1/3 lb ground pork (can also use 85% ground beef)
• 1/2 tsp fish sauce
• 1 tbsp cooking wine
• 1/2 tsp Chinese dark vinegar
• 2 tbsp soy sauce (regular)
• 1 tbsp dark soy
• 1/2 - 1 tsp pepper
• 1/2 tsp sesame oil
• 1/4-1/3 tsp sugar
• 1/2 tsp crushed red pepper if you like spicy

Directions

• Grate/shred carrots
• mince/chop finely the garlic and ginger
• chop the green onion 
• heat the oil in a pan (have lid handy) then add the ground pork
• cook on medium until pork breaks apart and is no longer pink
• Add the green onion, garlic, and ginger
• Cook until flagrant 
• Add Carrots
• Add in fish sauce, cooking wine, vinegar, soy sauce, dark soy sauce
• Add lid to the pan and let cook -- if too dry or if you like your dish saucy to go over rice, can add 1/3 cup water and double the sauce (liquids)
• Cook about 3-4 minutes, add in sugar, sesame oil, pepper (and red pepper if you like spicy), cook another 3 minutes, taste -- simmer longer if you like your carrots softer or if you are using pre-shredded, cook until carrots are to your desired consistency