Lor mee
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fish cake, fish, round and flat meat dumplings (usually chicken or pork), half a boiled egg, thick gravy | |
Similar dishes | Lomi |
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Lor mee (
fish cake, fish, round and flat meat dumplings (usually chicken or pork), half a boiled egg, and other items depending on the stall and the price paid. Vinegar
and garlic can be added as an optional item. Lor Mee can be served together with red chili. Traditional versions also include bits of fried fish as topping though few stalls serve this version anymore.
In Putian cuisine, lor mee is a much lighter dish usually prepared with less starch and seafood instead of meat.
Henan lumian
In central China's Henan cuisine, the same characters (Chinese: 河南卤面; pinyin: Hénán lǔmiàn) are used for an unrelated dish of wheat noodles traditionally prepared with a labor-intensive process of steaming, stir-frying and then steaming again.[2]
Although they are all thought to have descended from lor mee (卤面), a staple of Fujianese cooking.
See also
- Mie kuah
- Chinese Indonesian cuisine
- Chinese Filipino cuisine
- Hokkien mee, a series of Singaporean and Malaysian noodle dishes descended from Fujian lor mee
- Malaysian cuisine
- Singaporean cuisine
- Thai cuisine