“I recall my mother adding a little bit of sugar, which I liked, and I suppose occasionally I’d add a little bit of soy sauce,” But nowadays, making yock is all about personal preference. Therefore, many people can add hot sauce, ketchup, soy sauce, boiled eggs, pieces of meat, chicken, or pork – whatever their taste preferences are. According to yock, there is no set recipe. It’s just a personal taste. ” – Jenny Wong.
Park was a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but after a year, his finances ran out. Following the arrival of an envelope from China containing a picture of Soon G Eng and a string measuring her height, fell in love, and in 1934 he went back to Canton to wed her. The couple had three sons, Arthur, Edward, and David.
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Since its founding in 1906, the Sam Lee Noodle Company has produced yock noodles or lo-mein noodles for the Sam Lee Restaurant, which is located next door. Park couldn’t find a buyer when the structure was put up for sale in the 1950s, so he bought it himself and changed the name to the Norfolk Noodle Factory. By 1958, he relocated the company to Reservoir Street in order to grow into retail and wholesale. He then sold noodles to Chinese restaurants all over Tidewater, along with other supplies like egg roll wrappers and chow mein noodles.
Where few restaurants would ever consider opening, the oldest noodle shop in Hampton Roads is situated on a parcel of steelworking sheds and auto repair shops just north of the Norfolk Industrial Park. Advertisement.
But the real wonder is Shias noodles. He boils them “half-dried” after making them, rather than drying them completely.
He stuffs the meatballs in his wontons with carrots and celery, similar to how crafty parents might trick kids into eating their vegetables. His soup broth in his Hot and Spicy Noodles is lower in sugar and sodium than most soy-based sauces found in America. Advertisement.
At Norfolk, Virginia’s Yock Noodles Nook, Greg Shia makes yock. , on Thursday, January 10, 2018. (Kristen Zeis).
The addition of fresh spinach leaves, which slowly cook into the soup as you eat it, gives the dish a richer, deeper flavor that is boomingly savory and full-flavored, spicy without setting off a five-alarm fire. The soup is also round and warming. The dish’s roasted peanuts, which he hopes to replace with fried and air-puffed soybeans one day, add even more complexity and a smoky accent. Advertisement.
