Hiyashi - Sesame Flavor
August 9th, 2005
Hiyashi chuka or “cold ramen” is a popular refreshing Shanghai-style dish served cold during the summer with a sweet and sour tare dressing, toppings and a little mustard. A particular type of golden yellow noodle is used in this recipe.
Shanghai-style noodle (eastern Chinese cuisine) uses sugar, wines, and vinegars to provide sweet tastes and create subtlety of flavor.
Prepared properly, the tare dressing on the cold noodles has a strong sweet-sour flavor, a very nutty taste of sesame paste (somewhat like sweet gritty peanut paste) in sweet soy sauce with aromatic rice wine vinegar. The mustard which tasted like spicy Dijon mustard offered an extra tasty contrast to the dressing.
The noodles must be rinse in cold water and be drained well, as if you were preparing a vegetable salad for good vinaigrette dressing. Place on a serving plate and mix in the tare dressing well, be sure to get every bits of it - as the delicious heavy paste tend to stick inside the packet. Finally, lightly stir in the mustard paste on the top unevenly, so that you can taste the spicy mustard highlight.
Both in and out of the package, its premium quality is readily apparent, a very well packaged product.
Cooking Directions
- Add noodle to 3 cups of boiling water and simmer 5-6 minutes, stir occasionally.
- Drain and rinse noodle with cold water, then drain well.
- Place noodle on serving plate and add optional toppings*, dressing and mustard, as desired.
*Recommend any salad ingredients like julienned cucumber or green onion, ham or sliced tomatoes.
Product of Japan by Myojo Foods Co., Ltd.
Ingredients*
Net wt. 4.95 oz (140.5g)
Noodles 3.17oz
Wheat Flour, Potato Starch, Palm Oil, Salt, Sodium Carbonate, Sodium Metaphosphate, Potassium Carbonate, Curdlan, Tamarind Gum, Guar Gum, Sodium Polyphosphate, FD&C Yellow No.5.
Tare Dressing 1.71oz
Sugar, Soy Sauce (Water, Soybean, Wheat, Salt), Sesame Paste, Distill Vinegar, Vegetable Oil (Sesame Oil, Rice Oil, Soybean Oil, Rapeseed Oil), Hydrolyzed Protein (Soybean, Tuna, Corn), Mirin Flavor (Corn Syrup, Water, Fermented Rice, Distill Vinegar), Salt, Monosodium Glutamate, Glacial Acetic Acid, Scallop Extract, Yeast Extract, Disodium Inosinate, Citric Acid, Caramel Color, Malic Acid, Chinese Hot Sauce (Chili, Sesame Oil), Natural Flavor, Disodium Succinate.
Mustard 0.07oz
Mustard, Chili Sauce (Water, Chili Pepper, Broad Bean, Salt), Salt, Lactic Acid, Sodium Acetate.
Disclaimer*
Ingredients were copied from the product label, however you should not rely solely on this information in any manner.
Hiyashi chuka or “cold ramen” is a popular refreshing Shanghai-style dish served cold during the summer with a sweet and sour tare dressing, toppings and a little mustard. A particular type of golden yellow noodle is used in this recipe.
Shanghai-style noodle (eastern Chinese cuisine) uses sugar, wines, and vinegars to provide sweet tastes and create subtlety of flavor.
Prepared properly, the tare dressing on the cold noodles has a strong sweet-sour flavor, a very nutty taste of sesame paste (somewhat like sweet gritty peanut paste) in sweet soy sauce with aromatic rice wine vinegar. The mustard which tasted like spicy Dijon mustard offered an extra tasty contrast to the dressing.
The noodles must be rinse in cold water and be drained well, as if you were preparing a vegetable salad for good vinaigrette dressing. Place on a serving plate and mix in the tare dressing well, be sure to get every bits of it - as the delicious heavy paste tend to stick inside the packet. Finally, lightly stir in the mustard paste on the top unevenly, so that you can taste the spicy mustard highlight.
Both in and out of the package, its premium quality is readily apparent, a very well packaged product.
- Add noodle to 3 cups of boiling water and simmer 5-6 minutes, stir occasionally.
- Drain and rinse noodle with cold water, then drain well.
- Place noodle on serving plate and add optional toppings*, dressing and mustard, as desired.
*Recommend any salad ingredients like julienned cucumber or green onion, ham or sliced tomatoes.
Ingredients*
Net wt. 4.95 oz (140.5g)
Disclaimer*
December 28th, 2005 at 4:11 pm
the thing that makes these noodles fun is you serve them COLD! i dont know about you but when i think ‘noodles’ i think noodles = hot. but with these you cook them in boiling water, then drain them and rinse with cold water, and drain again, these noodles are a bit sticky when wet but thats ok ^^ the sauce that you have for them makes up for the ‘no water’ its a very sweet sauce thats full of sesame flavor (i didnt have to add toasted sesame seeds like i usualy do!) and the mustard they give you is spicy! so its a good balance of the sweet/spicy tastes. very good and worth trying!