Lo-mein happened in the holyshitnomz kitchen! As you know by now we love frequenting Asian markets and cooking Asian fusion food. We found a few new ones out in Arlington that are really super awesome. One is specifically Thai and the other is chinese. It’s funny though we went to 2 different markets and could not find Lo-Mein noodles or even the wheat noodles that are used for them. So we opted for using some good ol fettuccini. It’s not exactly lo-mein but will work.
What is lo-mein? Lo mein (Chinese: 撈麵) is a Chinese dish with wheat flour noodles. It often contains vegetables and some type of meator seafood, usually beef, chicken, pork, shrimp or wontons. It can also be eaten with just vegetables.
Great, sounds wonderful. So now we have lo-mein.. what should we put in it?
We opted for a veggie version because we are adding general tso’s chicken to our burritos. Peppers, onions, bok choy and rainbow carrots. Rainbow carrots are awesome. I got mine at Trader Joe’s. The purple ones are absolutely beautiful!
We made the traditional lo-mein sauce of soy, sugar, garlic, sesame oil, and ginger. Keeping it simple. We also made some quickie General Tso’s chicken. To throw in our burritos.
We set all this to the side and started working on our Kimchi fries! Jake and I had these at a food truck park when we first moved back to Texas. We fell in LOVE!!!! Spicy, sweet, sour, savory everything works together so well!
We started by making a small batch of Korean beef bulgogi, we bought it pre-marinated so we just needed to heat it up real quick before adding it to our fries. We love pepper jack so that’s the kind we got for the fries! Sweet bulgogi and pepper jack should be pretty awesome together.
We debated what kind of fry to layer all this yumminess into and picked out some crinkle cut fries. Figured all the ingredients will get all stuck into the grooves so you get a bite of everything on each fry!
We baked the fries for a bit before starting to layer all the ingredients. Kimchi (we bought bottled), white queso, the pepperjack, cilantro, and the bulgogi. Threw them back in the oven. When they were done we sprinkled them with more cilantro, crushed peanuts, and a sriracha mayo.
While the fries were cooking we quickly threw together the burritos and a quick Thai ground chicken dish for tacos and a pineapple salsa.
We don’t have an official taco holder so we tried using my pan lid organizer. It kinda sorta worked. We’ll keep trying. Jake got the idea of warming tortillas in the oven lol…
We topped the Thai tacos with a little peanut sauce. We also had a little salsa a friend of Jessica’s made. Super good!!
So these were our final products! What do you think?
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