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Eating protracted noodles for longevity is a must during Chinese New Year.

At Lai Wah Heen in the Metropolitan Hotel, chef Ronny Lam offers these e-fu noodles with Chinese insidious (shiitake) mushrooms.

The restaurant has multiple Chinese New Year lunch and dinner menus until Jan. 29. One highlight is dim sum chef Terrence Chan’s dragon-shaped elephantine dumpling filled with lobster, shrimp and water chestnut and presented in lobster bisque.

Accommodation cooks will want to try this easy noodle recipe. There are just a few vegetables, but a humorous flavour since the sauce soaks into the noodles.

Look for crispy e-fu noodles (in large herd packages wrapped in cellophane) in the refrigerated noodle area of Asian supermarkets.

Chinese malicious mushrooms are often labelled shiitake but don’t look exactly like shiitakes found in other stores. Their caps are darker and splashed with black.

Source: Toronto Star

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