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Shan Noodles

Name: Shan Noodles
Total time: 30 min
Yield: Serves 3
Cuisine: Myanmar
Ingredients: 300g Flat Rice Noodles; 250g Ground Pork; 2 Tomato; 3 cloves Garlic; 1 piece Ginger; 1/2 tsp Turmeric; 2 tbsp Vegetable Oil; To taste Cilantro

Noodles

⏱ 30 min

👥 Serves 3

Difficulty ⭐

Rice noodles topped with pork and tomato, seasoned with fermented soybean — from Shan State in eastern Myanmar.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Shan noodles come from Shan State in eastern Myanmar. Flat rice noodles are topped with ground pork stewed with tomato and seasoned with powdered fermented soybean. They're eaten both in soup and dry, and they've spread throughout Myanmar through eateries run by people from Shan State.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At a Shan restaurant in Yangon, a plate of flat noodles heaped with pork stirs nostalgia among diners from the provinces.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 3)

Flat Rice Noodles 300g
Ground Pork 250g
Tomato 2
Garlic 3 cloves
Ginger 1 piece
Turmeric 1/2 tsp
Vegetable Oil 2 tbsp
Cilantro To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Sauté garlic and ginger in oil until fragrant.
Add the ground pork, stir-fry, and add turmeric.
Add the tomato and cook, mashing, until the liquid is gone.
Cook the rice noodles and put them in bowls.
Top with the pork and scatter with cilantro.

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