Mì Quảng

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Mì Quảng (also spelled mỳ Quảng) is a Vietnamese wheat noodle dish that can be found in the provinces of Quang Nam and Da Nang, in the South Central Coast of Vietnam.

1 Ingredients
2 Cooking
- 2.1 Requirements
3 Temperature
4 Cultural aspects
5 External links

[edit] Ingredients

The dish features thick, yellow wheat noodles, called lá mì, which could be colored by the addition of turmeric. These noodles are typically made at the Chùa market, Duy Xuyên. The noodles are cooked and served with seasoned pork chops, half of a hard-boiled egg, sauteed shrimps, peanuts, chả bò Đà Nẵng- a kind of beef sausage, chili pepper, fresh vegetable (traditionally grown in Trà Quế village) including: water mint (rau húng lủi), basil, Ipomoea aquatica, Vietnamese coriander, shaved banana flower (bắp chuối bào), and a kind of lettuce) and pieces of bánh đa- a kind of rice cracker.

Mi Quang sold in Ho Chi Minh city by immigrants tend to contain more broth and therefore more like a soup, and the noodles are flatter, more similar to Phở noodle threads.

[edit] Cooking

To cook the broth, field crab meat and shrimp are added into the pork bone-stewed water (with Nam Ô fish sauce inside) and cooked until the broth becomes very thick. The mixture is combined with the stir-fried pork broth.

Pork chops are mixed with ground củ nén, pepper, peanut oil, curcuma aeruginosa powder and màu điều. Stir- frying it fast and simmering it.

[edit] Requirements

The noodles must be al dente. The noodle are traditionally not cut when they are eaten. Broth must be clear and taste of fat and sweet.

[edit] Temperature

Mì Quảng is typically eaten hot.

[edit] Cultural aspects

There is a Vietnamese saying about this dish:

“

Thương nhau múc bát chè xanh,

Làm tô mì Quảng anh xơi cho cùng.

”

This couplet describes a girl from Quảng Nam, a province on Vietnam's South Central Coast, who warmly invites her lover to drink a cup of tea and a bowl of mì Quảng, to show him the depth of her love for him. In her opinion, mì Quảng and tea are food and drink worthy of being served in this context.