Recipe for Stir Fried Silver Needle Noodles with Shrimps

I tried this dish yesterday, from my cooking book for filipino helper. It's a simple dish. I thought it's not bad for a simple dish, but it tasted much better if eaten with chilli padi in light soy sauce.

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Ingredients:
450g silver needle noodles (mee tai bak)
300g shrimps
1 slice ham (shredded)
113g green bean sprouts
2 spring onions (sectioned)
2 cloves garlic (crushed)

Marinade:
pepper
1/2 tsp cornflour

Seasoning:
1 tbsp dark soy sauce
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp sugar
3 tbsp water

Method:
1. Shell and devein shrimps. Wash and wipe dry. Mix with marinade. Scald.

2. Heat wok and add 2 tbsp of oil. Add garlic, silver needle noodles and seasoning. Stir fry until silver needle noodles are hot enough. Put in shrimps, ham and green bean sprouts. Stir fry until the sauce dries up. Add spring onion and stir fry. Serve.

Tip: Stir fry silver needle noodles with seasoning until fragrant and hot enough before adding the other ingredients. Cooked this way, silver needle noodles are fragrant and mouth-watering.

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Well, again...recipe is recipe. Can use some flexibility. For some reason, I had started by frying the bean sprouts first, then added the silver needle noodles. I also added more water than needed. At the end of my frying, the bean sprouts still tasted raw, so I transfered to a metal pot and continue to let it simmer (but be careful of the base being burnt!)