Prawn Mee Soup, 虾面

We had this pack of Prawn Mee Paste which is suppose to give us instant Prawn Mee and i was suppose to use it.

So we went out to buy our prawns, pork and noodles.

I remember every time my mom cooks prawn mee, the fragrance would float and fill the whole kitchen from the back where she fries stuff.

I vaguely remember hows she prepares the ingredients for the soup and i decided to try.

Right before i was due to put the pre-made paste into the soup, i taste my own broth and it tasted amazing. The whole house was filled with the sweet smell of the pork and prawn broth.

My neighbor even stood outside my door asking for a plate cause i kep the door open to air the house but the smell floated over. hahaha

Ingredients
500gs Fresh Prawns with shell
250gs Pork Shoulder
250gs Pork Bones
2 Pieces of Fish Cake
1 Clove Garlic
1 Medium sized Rock Sugar
1 packet Yellow Noodles
1 packet Fried shallot oil
Pink Himalayan Salt

Boil a pot of water and when boiling, blanch prawns and keep the water.
Remove and peel, keep the shells aside.
Slit prawns into half and remove the tread at the back of the prawn.
Smash garlic keeping the skin on.
Over high fire, fry prawn shells and smashed garlic until slightly charred and very fragrant.
Put pork bones, pork shoulder and fried prawn shells and garlic back into the pot of water and boil.
in 20 minutes take out the Pork should and leave aside to cool. Slice the pork and leave aside.
Keep the soup boiling for about 2 hours.
Lightly boil fish cake in the soup and also leave aside to cool and slice.
Add Rock sugar and desired amounts of salt.
Blanch noodles in separate pot of boiling water.
Put noodles, Prawns, and fishcake then pour soup over and serve!

Bon Appetite!

PS: if you cannot finish the soup, you can use it to Fry Hokkien Noodles! Recipe up next!