How to make yakisoba, Deanna-style

[dr4b]

1. Get some fresh yakisoba noodles from the Japanese grocer. Soak it a little so the noodles split up.
2. Get some chicken out of the freezer, and chop it into small enough strips to be stir-fried.
3. Get some green stuff, preferably bean sprouts or green peppers (and preferably NOT green beans, as i learned today).
4. Heat up a pan, and put the chicken and green stuff in the pan and fry them until the chicken isn't dangerous any more.
5. Put the noodles in the pan.
6. Add yakisoba sauce and stir around, pan-frying the noodles.
7. Add more yakisoba sauce.
8. Add even more yakisoba sauce, and continue stirring.
9. Turn off the heat eventually. Transfer the yakisoba to a plate.
10. Add more yakisoba sauce and eat.

Comments

[ardaniel]

Mmmm. Thanks for the recipe! :) Perhaps there shall be yakisoba tonight or tomorrow here.

ooh, yum...

[enigmaticfox.livejournal.com]

This sounds way yummy...Don and I are intrigued! Now we have to find out if there are any Japanese grocers in our area...

Would you happen to have the Japanese characters for "yakisoba" handy somewhere? I'm always a little worried about going into a Chinese/Japanese grocery and not being able to explain what I'm looking for...any little bit helps! :-)

Re: ooh, yum...

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

That sounds -great-.

One question: Final step, sauce at room temprature or warmed slightly?

[dr4b]

I guess this is the point where I mention that the real way to make yakisoba mostly doesn't involve nearly as much sauce as I use, and more veggies and chicken and stuff. But I really like the sauce. (I like Japanese sauces in general. Ask Carl sometime about the sheer amount of katsu sauce I tend to use... I emptied out a jar in one of the places we ate at in Japan. And I discovered that a major part of the reason I liked okonomiyaki so much more in Japan also had to do with the sauce.)

hmm, so it'd probably be written either of the following ways:
やきそば -- 焼きそば
(depending on whether they use kanji)
but usually it says something about it in english anyway. it's more important to get the right sauce than to get the right noodles.

as a note, you do NOT use soba noodles to make yakisoba. that's what is kind of funny. (you use soba noodles for things like zarusoba and soba noodle soups and all.) you use something a lot closer to ramen noodles for yakisoba. lower quality stuff. it's weird.

final step with the sauce: well... all along when i say "add more yakisoba sauce", i mean "squirt more out of the bottle onto the noodles".

[enigmaticfox.livejournal.com]

Hmmm...next question: where could I get some Japanese fonts, so I can read what you wrote? :-)

[dr4b]

Depends what system you're on. windows 2000, XP, etc, actually have a lot of this stuff built in, you just have to activate it. I'm not too sure any more about how to do it on other systems.

[enigmaticfox.livejournal.com]

Aha! Now that I'm at work, I can see the characters correctly! Looks like Mac OS X has Japanese fonts built in, and Mac OS 9.1 (home OS) does not.

Guess I'd better print this page while I'm here... :-)

Thanks!