1. Mince or grind pork; then blend in sherry. Mince scallions.

2. Blend together bean paste, soy sauce and hoisin sauce.

3. Heat oil. Add minced pork; stir-fry 1 minute. Add minced scallions and stir-fry 1 minute more.

4. Stir in bean paste mixture. Add water and heat quickly. Then cook, stirring, 2 minutes over low heat.

5. Serve with cooked wheat-flour noodles either mixed together (use about 1/4 cup meat sauce for every 1-1/2 cups cooked noodles); or serve the noodles in one dish, the sauce in another so that the diner can mix his own.

vegetables as shredded radishes and cucumbers, blanched beansprouts and spinach strips, as well as 4 or 5 minced garlic cloves. The diner tops his noodles and sauce at intervals with a bit of garlic and 1 to 2 tablespoons of vegetables.

From <The Thousand Recipe Chinese Cookbook>, Isbn 0-517-65870-4. Downloaded from Glen's Mm Recipe Archive, http://www. Erols. Com/hosey.