m.33 mee goreng

long ago i was convinced that no fried noodle dish would ever come out of our kitchen, i held firm to this doxa for two reasons: 1) we cook on an electric stove, and hence we would never really get the heat needed to fry noodles properly and 2) the memories of failed phat thai from a box were seared into my culinary memory, and my hands got clammy anytime i would even pick up a spatula with the intent of stirring noodles in a pan ... luckily all of that is behind us, and we have been making perfectly simple and tasty fried noodles now for about a year, our latest attempt looked like this:

 although normally we wing it, this time we tried a recipe from ottolenghi's plenty to see how he did it, we substituted harissa for sambal olek, thus putting in jeopardy any future trip to the malay world ...