La Vera Cucina Cinese - Brutti ma buoni

The 9th of February: special day for us and for more than one billion people Today the celebrations for the Chinese's New Year begin and what a better way to celebrate the Year of the Snake than having dinner in a traditional restaurant We wish you Xin Nian Kwai Le (新年快樂) - Happy New Year and enjoy the B'm'B dinner at the "Sole Rosso" restaurant Here we go: the B'm'B, who take you to the best street food joints in Italy And our friend Baisong, the owner of the "Sole Rosso" restaurant and today he'll be cooking lāmiàn (拉麵 ) the word lā (拉) means "pull" and the word miàn (麵 ) means noodle i.e. pulled noodles This dish is very famous throughout China, many variants exist and today we'll be cooking it the Wengzhou fashion let's see how to prepare Lamian Start preparing a dough with water and flour Let it rest for 5 minutes under a cloth Cut the dough into strips which Baisong is now pulling with great ability Lamian's ready... now, into the boiling water After few minutes, drain the Lamian add groundnut oil into a hot pan add one egg then onions, Shitake mushrooms and bacon add the cooked Lamian and stir it's time to add bean sprouts carrots dissolve some dry stock in soy sauce and add it Here is our Lamian ready! each ingredient has a specific function: carrots and scallion for the color; egg and pork for the taste and this, my favorite ingredient, the Shiitake mushroom which really makes the dish fly let's taste the Lamian Wengzhou style I love this dish here come Lamian, Lamian: these are chinese noodles, they were hand pulled just few minutes ago In China we serve them with broth 0:06:33.000,0:06.37.000 but I made them dry, they are even better! Good appetite everyone! It tastes like clams.. nice there is no real Chinese's new year without the Chinese century eggs! These are duck eggs they are left to cure in a highly alkaline mixture of clay and ashes and the result is a kind of natural-occurring cooking the white turns jelly and the yolk becomes creamy the taste is definitely odd: it's a mix between earth and iron, with a strong taste of egg give 'em a try. The Brutti ma Buoni liked it! Xin Nian Kwai Le (新年快樂)