{"id":17895,"date":"2022-08-01T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thegreenlist.nl\/?p=17895"},"modified":"2025-10-27T11:27:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T10:27:38","slug":"vegan-recipe-the-tastiest-noodles-according-to-chinese-family-recipe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thegreenlist.nl\/en\/vegan-recept-de-lekkerste-bami-volgens-chinees-familierecept\/","title":{"rendered":"Vegan recipe: the tastiest noodles according to Chinese family recipe"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Noodles for a long life!<\/strong> It is a Chinese tradition at birthdays and other family celebrations to have a table full of food for your guests. One dish is never missing: noodles! Challenge: can we veganise this traditional family recipe too? Yes we can! Check it out!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Noodles for long life<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The bami dish has a special role on my Chinese-Indonesian family's buffet table: this meal represents longevity. Therefore, on a birthday, everyone is supposed to eat a portion. Leave your knife in the kitchen, because noodles should absolutely not be sliced. You eat it gracefully with chopsticks or swirl it around your fork. Don't get into family traditions, but that noodles were not vegetarian. Let alone vegan. Pork, chicken, shrimp, beef and also oyster sauce are usually used to flavour this meal. Could that be different? I set to work on veganising our family recipe. And guess what? I succeeded in that!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Soya Chow Mein<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Tjauw what? This bami recipe is a true classic and has gone around the world with Chinese settlers. Tjauw mien (or chow mein<\/a>) means fried (tjauw) noodles (mein) and can be found all over the world: China, Thailand, Suriname, Indonesia, India, Europe, the US. In short: everywhere. Unlike many other noodle dishes, this noodle is crisply fried in the wok and only then gets the vegetables and sauce added. This gives this dish a great texture, with crispy and soft bits of noodles.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Chinese noodles (also on sale in the supermarket as egg noodles), vegan oyster sauce and the crispy noodles.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vegan oyster sauce!<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Oyster sauce is obviously not vegetarian, let alone vegan. But you can substitute oyster sauce for a vegan variant perfectly well. Just ask at the toko for mushroom stir-fry sauce or shiitake stir-fry sauce.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Don't sulk, nice wok<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

This delicious Chinese side dish is a wok dish. You can make it easier on yourself and prepare it earlier, so you can wok the dish on the spur of the moment in 15 minutes. For all my Asian wok dishes, I use the Macao wok from the WMF brand<\/a>. If you are still looking for good eco-friendly pans, this is a tip. Saskia wrote an article about our pan search. The short version: we had pans with PFAS (not a pleasant observation). We wanted to get rid of those. And so we went in search of a new set.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recipe: vegan noodles for a birthday party<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Of course, this noodles is also top to prepare on a \u2018normal\u2019 day. Would do: make extra much, so you can eat it for several days. If you make a large portion for a birthday, it is handy to make part of the dish earlier in the day. Then at the last minute - when your guests are there - all you have to do is wok it. Less stressful.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Vegan noodles according to Chinese family recipe<\/h2>\n
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Don't sulk, have a nice wok with this vegan noodles. As a child, I loved this dish. On birthdays and family parties, there was a big bowl for a long life. But my favourite noodles were not vegetarian and certainly not vegan. And so I started veganising 'my' Chinese noodles. Here's to a long(er) life! At least for the animals...<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
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