Korean Japchae

According to Wikipedia, Japchae (jabchae, chapchae) is a Korean dish made from cellophane noodles (called dangmyeon), stir fried in sesame oil with various vegetables (typically thinly-sliced carrots, onion, spinach, and mushrooms), sometimes served with beef, and flavoured with soy sauce, and sweetened with sugar. It is usually served garnished with sesame seeds and slivers of chili. It may be served either hot or cold.This dish is served at Korean parties and special occasions, with seasonal vegetables added.

Japchae is most commonly served as a side dish, however, I serve it as a main dish. Weeks ago, I found this product on the Korean food section, I am kind of curious & would like to try it out. This glass noodle was served in the Korean restaurant as a side dishes.

Step 1: Get a packet of the SWEET POTATO glass noodles & cook 250g according to the packet instruction. Set the cool glass noodles aside & prepare the following ingrediants for stir fry.Ingredients for stir fry:
3 tbsp light soy souce
2 tbsp sesame oil
1 tbsp sugar
pinch of salt to tast
2 tbsp any vege oil
100g carrot
100g spinach
150g beef/ pork(can pre-marinated with garlic, sesame oil, soya sauce)
5 dried shitake mushrooms
100g onion
Any vegetables in season that you like [ i add bell pepper, black fungus (wood ear), even surplus fish cake (need to clear stocks) etc....]

Step 3: Stir Fry
Normally, the Korean will stir fry the vegetables separately. But, I don't.
What I have did is, heat the vege oil for stir fry, in the pork/beef, mushroom, fish cake about 2 mins. Then, i will add in the glass noodles, with additional 5tbsp of water mix with light soy sauce, sesame oil, sugar& salt. Then top the vegetables on top of the noodles. Lid on, simmer for about 3 mins, let the noodles adsorb the flavor of the beef/pork/vegetable.

Step 4: Serve! The good things about this noodle is, you can serve it hot or cold. It is delicious.