Kwetiau goreng

Kwetiau goreng

Kwetiau goreng in a restaurant in Indonesia served with acar pickles and fried shallot sprinkles
Alternative names	Kuetiau goreng or Kwetiaw goreng
Course	Main course
Place of origin	IndonesiaSingapore
Region or state	Nationwide
Created by	Chinese Indonesian and Peranakan
Serving temperature	Hot
Main ingredients	Fried flat noodles with chicken, meat, beef, prawn or crab

Kwetiau goreng (Indonesian for "fried flat noodle") is a Chinese Indonesian and Malay Singaporean stir fried flat rice noodles, it is a flavorful and spicy fried noodle dish common in Indonesia. It is made from locally known kwetiau（粿條） (shahe fen or 河粉 hé fěn in Chinese) stir fried in cooking oil with garlic, onion or shallots, beef, chicken, fried prawn, crab or sliced bakso (meatballs), chili, Chinese cabbage, cabbages, tomatoes, egg, and other vegetables with ample of kecap manis (sweet soy sauce). In Asia kwetiau is available in two forms, dried and wet one. Its recipe is quite similar with another Chinese Indonesian favourite; mie goreng with exception replacing yellow wheat noodles with flat rice noodle.

Ubiquitous in Indonesia, it can be found everywhere in the country, sold by all food vendors from traveling street-hawkers in their carts, warungs, to high-end restaurants. It is one of Indonesian one-dish meal favorite, although street food hawkers commonly sell it together with mie goreng and nasi goreng (fried rice). Kwetiau goreng is also served in Indonesian franchise restaurants such as Es Teler 77.

Its closest analogue probably is char kway teow popular in neighboring Malaysia and Singapore. However, it is slightly different, since Indonesian kwetiau goreng usually tastes mildly sweet with generous addition of sweet soy sauce, spicier with addition of sambal chili sauce as condiment, and mostly halal using chicken and beef, and the absence of pork and lard to cater Muslim majority population. However, some Chinese restaurants in Indonesia that serve non-Muslim customers might use pork and lard. The most common protein source for kwetiau goreng however, are beef, chicken, prawns or crab.