Satay Noodles,Foreign Source with Local Noodles
2 min readThe origin of satay would be traced back to the South Seas for the countless ties between the two lands.The southern Fujian province is the home town of many overseas Chinese, whose forefather sailed across the ocean and settled in the the South Sea.However,they retain the kinship and ties with their kin at hometown and travel back and forth to their hometown constantly.
Satay,essentially the transliteration from Malaysian,originated from Southeastern Asia.Satay is a variety of seasoning sauce made of sesame,green onion and garlic,vanilla,peanut oil,shrimp and hot pepper,thus attaining the spicy taste and subsequently receiving the name of”satay spicy”.As per the textual research aone by Mr.Yang Jibo,satay spicy sauce was first brought into Xiamen by overseas Chinese Chen Youxiang.Since childhood Chen had been learning the process to “ake satay sauce.After a decade of study,he finally mastered the skills and later dedicated to making innovations based on the processes.After he returned to Alamen,Chen opened a”Chen Youxiang Seasoning Sauce Store”,which mainly sold the satay sauc e.There were merely more than ten ingredients originally used as tnie raw materials for satay sauce,and Chen broadened the scope of ingredients to “iore than twenty:The satay was made into not only sauce but also powder,for the sake of storage and carriage.The overseas Chinese all would like to buy his products, d proof that Chen’s skills had already demonstrated high degree of professional proficiency.
Satay noodles are very easy to prepare:first put the noodles in boiling water to be fully cooked and then add scalding hot satay sauce to the noodles while they are still hot.As for the satay meat noodles and satay beef noodles,the meat or beef needs to be sliced so that it could be fully cooked when dipped into hot water.In addition,some bean sprouts and green vegetables going as the embellishment with the noodles would make a bowl of scented yet spicy,quite appetizing satay noodles!
