It is a common breakfast meal in Malaysia. Walking around you will find it wrapped it a banana leaf conical shape pack. A packet of Nasi Lemak or coconut cream rice is usually filled with sambal and deep fish fish cutlets. Or many other selection would be hard boil egg with sambal sauce. You can even have sambal udang or prawns with cucumber slices.
Yellow noodles or rice vermicelli, coconut milk, bean curd puffs, prawns, chicken, cockles, dried cuttlefish, and fresh herbs. Topped with a dollop of sambal for added spice.
Curry paste made with coriander powder, lemongrass, dried chilies, garlic, onions, and fresh turmeric, providing the base for a deeply aromatic broth.
For a vegetarian version, replace seafood and chicken with tofu, mushrooms, and extra bean curd puffs. Adjust the spice level by adding more or less sambal to taste.
Hokkien Mee or Hokkien Noodle is a prawn noodle soup. A lovely broth cooked with pork bones, slowly simmered to perfection. Yellow egg noddle and vermicelli called bee hoon will filled you up. Prawns, morning glory green vegetables blanched and beansprouts are added so you are sure to have some veggies in your meal.
Kerabu Beehoon is scalded vermicelli or rice noodle. Freshly pounded red chilly with toasted shrimp paste is sambal belachan. Calamansi lime is more suitable to make this lovely sauce.
Tops with steam prawns, coriander leaves, toasted peanuts and fresh red chilly, this makes a great main for any dinner or tea party. It is a light meal which makes you want to savor the spicy and citrus seasoned vermicelli.
