Japchae - 잡채

Japchae is Korean side dish which is served with rice...sometimes a main dish... The glass noodle (cellophane noodle) or damyeon is made from sweet potato starch. It is different from vermicelli which is made from rice, which is popular in Thailand and Malaysia as well as in other ASIA countries...

Ingredients:

Cellophane noodle (Damyeon) - enough for 2-3 servings
1 cup of beef
2 eggs (separate yolk and white)
Spinach (based on your preference)
1/3 medium size carrot
1 medium size onion
3 Shitake mushroom (dried - but I use fresh)
Capsicum (3 colours) - based on your preference
2 cloves of garlic
Soy sauce
Sesame oil
Sugar
Pepper
Sesame seed

Prepare ingredients:

1) Fry egg on frying pan with few drops of oil, then once done cut into thin strips about 5cm long like matchstick-shaped
2) Slice beef into thin strips, season with sesame oil, sugar, soy sauce and marinate for about 1 hr in fridge
3) Cut carrot and capsicum into thin strips same size and shaped as the egg
4) Slice mushroom
5) Cut onion

Methods:

1) Boiled noodle in boiling water until soft and drain them, add sesame oil and soy sauce, mix them  and keep aside
2) In boiling water, put the spinach and stir about 2 minutes. Take out and rinse in cold water, squeeze water and cut it. Season with soy sauce and sesame oil, mix it and add into the noodle
3) Heat the pan stir fry the beef
4) Then stir fry separately carrot, capsicum, shittake mushroom, onion with soysauce and vegetable oil
5) Stir fry shittake mushroom with garlic, pepper and soy sauce
6) Put all fried vegetables, beef and shittake mushroom into the noodle
7) Add soy sause, sesame oil, and sugar to taste
8) Mix all ingredients
9) Before serving put the egg strips and sesame seeds, alternatively you can mix together with the noodle...

Done and ready to be served.....