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Alkaline Noodles (Ramen, Chinese noodles)

Ingredients
  

  • Equipment: pasta maker or a fancy one
  • 4 cups of plain flour or bread flour
  • 1 cup of water at room temperature
  • 2 Tbsp alkaline water kan sui
  • Handful of corn flour for dusting only

Instructions
 

  • Put everything except the corn flour into a mixer and mix for 5 minutes. You can use a bread maker.
  • The result is tiny rounds of dry dough. Gather them into a ball.
  • Cut the ball into about 8cm x 3 cm x 1 cm thick. Dust with generous amount of corn flour. I used a pasta making machine and worked through from the thickest setting down to #5 or spaghetti setting or any setting you like, one at a time. I use #5 ramen or soba, and #6 youmian and mee pok.
  • Dust with corn flour again to ensure they don't stick.
  • Cook the way you want, I use lots of water and bring that to a boil. Add the noodles and let the noodles cook freely (not constrained to a net), and when the water boils again, I dish the noodles out from the hot water, dunk the noodles into ice cold water to improve the texture.
  • That's it!