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gizmo8
May 7th, 2008, 10:54 PM
What are those flat thick noodles dishes called in the Chinese restaurants.It usually comes with beef and veggies.
BaboSo
May 7th, 2008, 10:59 PM
I think the dish is called, "gone chow ngow hor".
gizmo8
May 7th, 2008, 11:09 PM
I found the name..Beef Chow Fun noodles..:)
Mike_wang
May 7th, 2008, 11:17 PM
CHOW FUN in chinese means Fried noodles that's just redundant.
dmyvr
May 7th, 2008, 11:19 PM
hor fun
tet8suo
May 8th, 2008, 12:56 PM
something like this?
don't eat too much, they might have 2000 calories per dish :)
http://chowtimes.com/photos/2007/11/IMG_1399.jpg
Madtrini
May 8th, 2008, 07:44 PM
Ho Fan noodles.
JAGpilot
May 8th, 2008, 07:56 PM
Ho Fun is my favorite Chinese dish. I can make it at home but it's never nearly as good as I get from a Chinese place. I think the secret is extreme hot heat. The best I can do is turn my stove up high and try to "burn" the dark soy sauce.
dighn
May 8th, 2008, 08:45 PM
something like this?
don't eat too much, they might have 2000 calories per dish :)
Heh I like it too, but usually it's so drenched in oil that it's disgusting.
strangeepiphany
May 8th, 2008, 10:59 PM
don't eat too much, they might have 2000 calories per dish :)
2000 calories?! No wonder it tastes so good. :D Darn those yummy high-calorie foods.
krash322
May 11th, 2008, 10:07 PM
I found the name..Beef Chow Fun noodles..:)
It's not chow fun. Chow fun is fried noodles. You want the flat white one, which is rice noodles, or hor fun.
gmark2000
May 13th, 2008, 12:02 AM
It's not chow fun. Chow fun is fried noodles.
I thought chow mein is fried noodles.
And what the heck is lo mein? It looks like chow mein.
kashirat
May 13th, 2008, 12:06 AM
I thought chow mein is fried noodles.
And what the heck is lo mein? It looks like chow mein.
Lo mein and Chow mein are the same noodles. The difference is in how they are cooked. Lo mein is usually sauce based.. chow mein is fried/stir fried.
felixdd
May 13th, 2008, 12:25 AM
I thought chow mein is fried noodles.
And what the heck is lo mein? It looks like chow mein.
Pretty close I'd say, but there's a bit of an inaccuracy with "lo mein".
Lo mien (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lo_mein) is best conceptualized as "mixed noodle" ("mien" = egg-based noodle). It is simply a deconstructed broth noodle -- the broth is served separate from the noodle. To eat it, you pour the broth onto the noodle to moisten it, and you mix in vinegar as well.
American lo mein is stir-fried. It is much saucier, almost like a pasta.
Chow mein is wok-fried (chow = wok-fried) with high heat. Much higher degree of caramelization, with less sauce (generally). Sauce can be added afterwards, but the noodle is not fried with the sauce (as is the case with American lo mein)
The beef fried noodle mentioned by the OP is named "gon chow ngau ho". It is fried with dark soy, light soy, and over very high heats. "Ho" in this case is a contraction of "ho fun". "Fun" is another major type of noodle in Chinese cuisine, being rice-based.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shahe_fen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_noodles