A couple of weeks ago, the house cook prepared mee rebus for lunch. This is a Singaporean/Malaysian dish and I do not recall having found any Malaysian restaurants in Atlanta serving it.

I just found out from Wikipedia that “mee rubus” literally means “boiled noodles” in English. Thick, yellow egg noodles is typically used and served with a gravy. The dish is often garnished with a hard-boiled egg, fried tofu, calamansi limes and whatever the person cooking fancies. Ours had chopped chili padi, fried shallots, anchovies and bean sprouts.

Most of the work went into preparing the gravy, which had potato flour, soy beans and a concoction of spices, which I guess are the most important ingredients to giving it its taste. The result was delicious!