Prawn Mee

I was craving for this dish the other day and I thought to myself I should be able to do this. Google-ed a few recipes and then decided to mix and match some of them depending on what I had available. The ingredients needed are mainly as below:

- 800g of pork ribs, blanched
- 200g ikan bilis
- 500g prawns, shelled and deveined but retain the shells
- 5 dried scallops
- Star anise and cinnamon bark about 10g
- 10 peppercorns
- Spring onion
- half a garlic, chopped
- Ginger, thinly sliced
- Yellow noodles
- bean sprouts, blanched
- sugar
- salt
- 1/2 a cup of fish sauce or more as desired
- dark soya and light soya sauces

Directions:

First, blanch the pork ribs with hot water to get rid of oil and surface dirt. Then peel and devein the prawns. Fry the prawn shells with ginger and spring onion until they are pink then add the ikan bilis and about 1 tablespoon of sugar. Slow cook the prawn shells and ikan bilis together with the pork ribs, dried scallops, star anise, peppercorns, cinnamon bark and 10 cups of water for 6-8 hours. Add sugar, salt, fish sauce, dark and light soya and bring to a boil, the resulting broth should be clear, dark and flavourful. If there the taste is not intense enough, slow cook further.

When it is time to eat, bring the soup to a boil and cook the prawn meat quickly in the boiling broth. Do not overcook the prawns so that they remain succulent and sweet. Serve the noodles with prawns, pork ribs, bean sprouts and the aromatic broth and garnish with chopped spring onion and fried shallots.