Hot and Sour Noodle Soup
The sour taste of black vinegar and the pungent taste of white pepper! Taiwanese classic noodles with thick soup intertwined with noodles
Description
A menu always found in Taiwanese dumpling shops, where boiled Chinese noodles are placed in 'Suanla Tang', a sour, spicy, thick soup containing pig's blood, tofu, bamboo shoots, and wood ear mushrooms.
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Recipe
Ingredients
- Chinese noodles
- Black vinegar(Wu Cu)
- White pepper
- Tofu
- Duck blood(Yaxue)
- Wood ear
Instructions
- [Authentic Recipe]
- [Ingredients] Shred tofu, bamboo shoots, wood ear, carrots, and the essential 'Duck Blood (or pig's blood cake)' to uniform lengths.
- Boil pork (or chicken) broth in a pot, simmer ingredients.
- Season with soy sauce and salt, thicken firmly with potato starch slurry.
- Stream beaten egg thinly into the thickened soup to make a beautiful 'egg drop'.
- [Decisive Flavor] Right before turning off heat, dump in Taiwan's sweet 'black vinegar (Wu Cu)' and 'massive white pepper' (the 'La' in Suanla is pepper heat, not chili).
- Plate boiled Chinese noodles, pour the hot soup, scatter sesame oil and scallions.
Learn more Spice, substitutes, tips
Key spices
Intense punch of white pepper
Substitutes at Japanese supermarkets
Japanese black vinegar with a little sugar, sub duck blood with pork
Pairing
Boiled dumplings or Potstickers(Guotie)
Trivia
[For Everyone] In Taiwan, 'Suanla Tang' is the soup always ordered with boiled dumplings. Adding noodles makes it a complete, value-packed meal. Japanese versions are heavy on chili oil heat, but Taiwan's stars 'white pepper heat' and 'Taiwanese black vinegar's fruity acidity'.
Eating tips & etiquette
[Unique Eating] In Taiwanese dumpling shops, add massive tabletop 'homemade chili oil' to customize it to a choking level of sourness and heat before slurping the noodles!
Allergen
Wheat, Soy, Egg, Sesame