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Best Korean Instant Ramen Noodles Recipe – How to Jazz Up Your Nongshim Shin Ramyun. noodle recipes made in 30 minutes or less. Copyright © 2022 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

10 Noodle Recipes Made in 30 Minutes or Less for Quick and Easy Mid-Week Meals

Our 10 noodle recipes made in 30 minutes or less for quick and easy mid-week meals include speedy recipes for everything from Korean instant ramen noodles and ginger scallion noodles in ten minutes to recipes for Thai rad na gai charred rice noodles with chicken and gravy and Cambodian mee katang for Cantonese style noodles in 25 minutes.

Terence and I are so busy right now we’re doing our own thing for dinner tonight, as we’ll both finish work late and we’ll each feel like eating different things. Terence will probably make a healthy salad, while I’ll feel like quick comfort food, which for me means easy noodles that I can make in next to no time.

For those of you thinking the same, I’ve pulled together this compilation of 10 noodle recipes made in 30 minutes or less for quick mid-week meals. In addition to instant ramen noodles, ginger scallion noodles, Thai rad na gai and Cambodian mee katang, the round-up includes recipes for Hokkien noodles, mee Kola, and Cambodian lort cha.

If you’re completely exhausted, you’ll want to hone in on these 10-15 minute noodle recipes, including this spicy peanut butter noodles recipe, Terence’s Korean instant ramen noodles recipe for jazzing up Nongshim Shin Ramyun, and my best instant ramen noodles recipe plus my (now not so) secret formula to upgrading instant noodles.

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Noodle Recipes Made in 30 Minutes or Less for Quick and Easy Mid-Week Meals

Thai Rad Na Gai Recipe for Charred Rice Noodles with Chicken

This Thai rad na gai recipe for charred rice noodles with chicken and gravy makes a Thai-Chinese street food dish more popular with Thais than pad Thai and it tops my list of 10 noodle recipes made in 30 minutes or less as it’s just so incredibly delicious.

This recipe, adapted from chef David Thompson’s Thai Street Food cookbook, makes a rad na that tastes exactly like our Bangkok favourite. Use a seasoned carbon steel wok for charring the noodles. Fresh rice noodles stick more than reconstituted dried noodles. If they stick, splash a little cooking oil into the wok.

The chef’s recipe calls for pouring the gravy over the noodles – ‘rad na’ means ‘on top’ after all – but I like to return the charred noodles to the wok and combine them with the chicken, greens and gravy to coat the noodles completely. Made in 25 minutes.

Thai Rad Na Gai Recipe for Charred Rice Noodles with Chicken and Gravy

Spicy Peanut Butter Noodles Recipe for a Quick, Easy Bowl of Noodles

This spicy peanut butter noodles recipe makes an easy bowl of noodles that’s perfect for a fast lunch or quick mid-week dinner and it’s another of my top noodle recipes made in 30 minutes or less as it’s just too easy.

If you’re in the mood for satay but don’t have time to pound pastes and grind peanuts, this spicy peanut butter sauce should satisfy your cravings and it’s a cinch to make. It’s also versatile – use whatever noodles and toppings you have at hand –  and fast. They’re made in 15 minutes.

If you’re a lover of noodle dishes – and dry noodles doused in sauces, in contrast to wet noodles, which are essentially noodle soups and curried noodles – then you should enjoy tucking into a bowl of these spicy peanut butter noodles, garnished with crunchy pan-roasted peanuts, crispy fried garlic, sliced red chillies, and fragrant coriander or cilantro. 

Spicy Peanut Butter Noodles Recipe for a Quick, Easy and Tasty Bowl of Noodles

 

Cambodian Mee Katang Recipe for Quick Cantonese Style Noodles

My Cambodian mee katang recipe makes a delicious Chinese-Cambodian dish of wok-fried wide rice noodles, stir-fried with marinated pork, crunchy carrots and Chinese broccoli, and scrambled eggs.

Called ‘mee Kontang’ in Khmer, which means Cantonese noodles, but pronounced ‘mee Katang’, these charred noodles are easy to make and super versatile and are another of my 10 noodle recipes made in 30 minutes or less as they’re also super tasty. While not as ubiquitous in Cambodia as noodle dishes such as nom banh chok and kuy teav, you’ll still spot mee Katang at street food carts.

A descendant of the Cantonese dish chow fun, mee Katang is made with the same fresh, flat, wide rice noodles called hor fun, stir-fried in light soy, dark soy and oyster sauce to give the noodles colour as much as flavour. Made in 25 minutes.

Cambodian Mee Katang Recipe for Quick and Easy Cantonese Style Noodles

 

Korean Spicy Noodles Recipe for Stir-Fried Udon with Kimchi

Our Korean spicy noodles recipe makes stir-fried udon noodles with kimchi, bacon and fried eggs. While the Japanese fried udon noodle dish, yaki udon, has a soy based sauce, this Korean-style yaki udon heats things up with kimchi, the spicy Korean chilli paste called gochujang and Korean chilli flakes gochugaru. We pop fried eggs on top.

If you’re a lover of Japanese udon noodles but prefer the spice of Korean food, you’re going to love this Korean spicy noodles recipe, although it’s a dish for pork lovers as much as lovers of noodles and spice.

If bacon and ground pork is too much pork, omit one. This versatile noodle dish also works with seafood, chicken, pork, or vegetables. Made in 15 minutes.

Korean Spicy Noodles Recipe for Stir-Fried Udon with Kimchi, Bacon and Fried Eggs

 

Ginger Scallion Sauce Recipe for Ginger Scallion Noodles

This ginger scallion sauce recipe makes the ginger scallion noodles that were a much-copied Momofuku homage to the classic Southern Chinese sauce that chef David Chang and food writer Francis Lam popularised over a decade ago.

Terence has been making these delicious ginger scallion noodles with the sauce ever since – well before their recent comeback – and you should too. They’re super-quick to make and take around 10 minutes.

We knew this as the Momofuku ginger scallion sauce for ginger scallion noodles from chef David Chang’s Momofuku: A Cookbook published in 2009. Chang said it was “the secret sauce” served up in Cantonese joints in New York City. The sauce and noodle dish made a comeback in 2021, but disappointingly, the origins weren’t always shared. 

Ginger Scallion Sauce Recipe for Ginger Scallion Noodles – The Momofuku Homage to a Chinese Classic

Cambodian Lort Cha Recipe for Stir Fried Rice Pin Noodles

This authentic Cambodian lort cha recipe makes the popular market meal of rice pin noodles stir-fried with garlic, bean sprouts and scallions or chives in a sauce of palm sugar, fish sauce and dark soy sauce, and it’s another of my top noodle recipes made in 30 minutes or less as this is just such a comforting dish.

They’re typically eaten in Cambodia with a soft fried egg, a liberal squirt of chilli sauce, and a chive cake or two, which lort cha cooks fry up on the same pan. They’re made in around 15 minutes.

‘Authentic’ is a loaded term, of course and here I’m using it to describe a Cambodian-Chinese dish of Cantonese provenance. What makes it authentic then? It makes the lort cha cooked and sold at markets in Cambodia – not the kind I’ve spotted on a few food sites that have a mile-long list of ingredients. 

Authentic Cambodian Lort Cha Recipe for Market Style Stir Fried Rice Pin Noodles

Mee Kola Recipe for the Vegetarian Noodles of Cambodia’s Kola People

Mee Kola translates to Kola noodles – ‘mee’ are noodles and this is a noodle dish of the Kola, also known as the Kula or Gula people, a Cambodian ethnic minority people who originated from Burma (now Myanmar) and settled in Pailin in northwest Cambodia to mine gem stones.

Our recipe for these vegetarian noodles is modelled on a dish made by a Kola family here in Siem Reap. It’s made with rice stick noodles stir-fried in soy sauce, served with papaya cucumber pickle, bean sprouts, crunchy vegetables, fragrant herbs, and crushed peanuts, which you combine altogether with the dressing in your bowl.

This is another of my top noodle recipes made in 30 minutes or less as it’s super easy and makes a fantastic single-bowl lunch. Made in 30 minutes.

Mee Kola Recipe for the Vegetarian Noodles of Cambodia’s Kola People

Hokkien Noodles Recipe With Chinese Barbecue Pork

Terence’s Hokkien Noodles recipe with char siu pork or Chinese barbecue pork is an old favourite inspired by a dish from legendary Australian chef Neil Perry and it’s another of my 10 noodle recipes made in 30 minutes or less as they’re deliciously addictive.

It’s hard to believe but Terence has been cooking this for 24 years, after trying a Hokkien noodles dish cooked up by legendary Australian chef Neil Perry in 1998. Terence’s version is modified from the chef’s dish that was published in his first cookbook, Rockpool.

Terence shared it here on Grantourismo as part of a series of recipes using char siu pork or Chinese barbecue pork. This is another noodle dish best made in a nicely seasoned carbon steel wok to get a little smoky flavour in the dish. It’s made in 25 minutes.

Hokkien Noodles Recipe with Chinese Barbecue Pork or Char Siu Pork

 

Best Instant Ramen Noodles Recipe + Secret to Upgrading Instant Noodles

My best instant ramen noodles recipe for a quick, easy, satisfying meal begins with discarding those tiny packets of seasoning and spice paste and making your own sauce, a popular Southeast Asian dipping sauce. Add crunch with a sprinkle of fried shallots or fried garlic and fragrance from fresh herbs and you’ve got delicious instant noodles.

It is so easy to make that it really doesn’t need a recipe and like all good instant ramen recipes, it’s versatile. If you follow my now-not-so-secret formula to upgrading instant ramen, you’ll always make satisfying instant noodles. Use your favourite noodles.

I recommend MAMA instant noodles, a Thai brand that Thai friends got me onto, or Nongshim Shin Ramyun Noodles. For fish sauce, we like Megachef, one of the most consistent fish sauces available internationally. These noodles are made in 10 minutes.

Best Instant Ramen Noodles Recipe PLUS Secret Formula to Upgrading Instant Noodles

 

Korean Instant Ramen Noodles Recipe for Jazzing Up Nongshim Shin Ramyun

Terence’s Korean instant ramen noodles recipe jazzes up Nongshim Shin Ramyun, which are apparently South Korean’s most popular Korean instant ramen noodles, with melt-in-your-mouth slices of char siu pork, crisp Chinese greens, blanched bean sprouts, a boiled egg, deep-fried shallots, and our heady homemade chilli oil.

Terence uses Nongshim’s Shin Black Noodle Soup, which he cooks for four minutes, having added about half the soup powder first, and blanched any extras that need cooking before that, such as the Asian leafy green vegetables and bean sprouts. He doesn’t use the vegetable flakes packet at all, as he doesn’t like the texture.

Terence likes to add a squirt of one of the original Thai Sriracha sauces but you could always add a squeeze of the American-Vietnamese Rooster Sriracha brand. This dish is made in 15 minutes.

Best Korean Instant Ramen Noodles Recipe – How to Jazz Up Nongshim Shin Ramyun

Please do let us know in the comments below if you make any of our 10 noodle recipes made in 30 minutes or less, as we’d love to hear how they turn out for you.

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Still looking for Christmas cooking inspo? Check o Still looking for Christmas cooking inspo? Check out our seafood recipe collection, especially if you celebrate Christmas on Christmas Eve with a fish focused meal in the Southern Italian tradition, transformed by Italian-Americans into the Feast of the Seven Fishes, or like Australians, who celebrate Christmas in the sweltering summer, feast on seafood for Christmas Day lunch, we’ve got lots of easy seafood recipes for you.

Our recipes include a classic prawn cocktail, blini with smoked salmon, a ceviche-style appetiser, and devilled eggs with caviar. We’ve also got recipes for fish soup, seafood pies and pastas, salmon tray bake, and crispy salmon with creamy mashed potatoes.

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If you’re still looking for food inspo for Chris If you’re still looking for food inspo for Christmas Eve or Christmas Day meals, my smoked salmon ‘carpaccio’ recipe is one of dozens of recipes in this compilation of our best Christmas recipes (link below). 

The Christmas recipe compilation includes collections of our best Christmas breakfast recipes, best Christmas brunch recipes, best Christmas starter recipes, best Christmas cocktails, best Christmas dessert recipes, and homemade edible Christmas gifts and more.

My smoked salmon carpaccio recipe makes an easy elegant appetiser that’s made in minutes. If you’re having guests over, you can make the dish ahead by assembling the salmon, capers and pickled onions, and refrigerate it, then pour on the dressing just before serving. 

Provide toasted baguette slices and bowls of additional capers, pickles and dressing, so guests can customise their carpaccio. And open the bubbly!

You’ll find that recipe and many more Christmas recipes here: https://grantourismotravels.com/best-christmas-recipes/ (link in bio if you’re seeing this on IG)

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If you haven’t visited our site in a while, I sh If you haven’t visited our site in a while, I shared a collection of recipes for homemade edible Christmas gifts — for condiments, hot sauces, chilli oils, a whole array of pickles, spice blends, chilli salt, furakake seasoning, and spicy snacks, such as our Cambodian and Vietnamese roasted peanuts. 

I love giving homemade edibles as gifts as much as I love receiving them. Who wouldn’t appreciate jars filled with their favourite chilli oils, hot sauces, piquant pickles, and spicy peanuts that loved-ones have taken the time to make? 

Aside from the gesture and affordability of gifting homemade edibles, you’re minimising waste. You can use recycled jars or if buying new mason jars or clip-top Kilner jars, you know they’ll get repurposed.

No need for wrapping, just attach some Christmas baubles or tinsel to the lid. I used squares of Cambodian kramas (cotton scarves), which can be repurposed as napkins or drink coasters, and tied a ribbon or two around the lids, and attached last year’s Christmas tree decorations to some.

You’ll find the recipes here: https://grantourismotravels.com/homemade-edible-christmas-gifts/ (link in bio if you’re seeing this on IG)

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This crab omelette is a decadent eggs dish that’ This crab omelette is a decadent eggs dish that’s perfect if you’re just back from the fish markets armed with luxurious fresh crab meat. It’s a little sweet, a little spicy, and very, very moreish.

Our crab omelette recipe was one of our 22 most popular egg recipes of 2022 on our website Grantourismo and it’s no surprise. It’s appeared more times than any other egg recipes on our annual round-ups of most popular recipes since Terence launched Weekend Eggs when we launched Grantourismo in 2010.

If you’re an eggs lover, do check out the recipe collection. It includes egg recipes from right around the world, from recipes for classic kopitiam eggs from Singapore and Malaysia and egg curries from India and Myanmar to all kinds of egg recipes from Thailand, Japan, Korea, China, Mexico, USA, Australia, UK, and Ireland.

And do browse our Weekend Eggs archives for further eggspiration (sorry). We have hundreds of egg recipes from the 13 year-old series of recipes for quintessential egg dishes from around the world, which we started on our 2010 year-long global grand tour focused on slow, local and experiential travel. 

We’re hoping 2023 will be the year we can finally publish the Weekend Eggs cookbook we’ve talked about for years based on that series. After we can find a publisher for the Cambodia cookbook of course... :( 

Recipe collection here (and proper link to Grantourismo in our bio):
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I’m late to share this, but a few days ago Angko I’m late to share this, but a few days ago Angkor Archaeological Park, home to stupendous Angkor Wat, pictured, celebrated 30 years of its UNESCO World Heritage listing. 

That’s as good an excuse as any to put this magnificent, sprawling archaeological site on your travel list this year.

While riverside Siem Reap, your base for exploring Angkor is bustling once more, there are still nowhere near the visitors of the last busy high season months of December-January 2018-2019 when there were 290,000 visitors. 

Last month there were just 55,000 visitors and December feels a little quieter. A tour guide friend said there were about 150 people at Angkor Wat for sunrise a few days ago.

If you’re looking for tips to visiting Angkor, Siem Reap and Cambodia, just ask us a question in the comments below or check Grantourismo as we’ve got loads of info on our site. Click through to the link in the bio and explore our Cambodia guide or search for ‘Angkor’. 

And please do let us know if you’re coming to Siem Reap. We’d love to see you here x

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Our soy ginger chicken recipe will make you sticky Our soy ginger chicken recipe will make you sticky, flavourful and succulent chicken thighs that are fantastic with steamed rice, Chinese greens or a salad, such as a Southeast Asian slaw. 

The chicken can be marinated for up to 24 hours before cooking, which ensures it’s packed with flavour, then it can be cooked on a barbecue or in a pan.

Terence’s soy ginger chicken recipe is one of our favourite recipes for a quick and easy meal. I love the sound of the sizzling thighs in the pan, and the warming aromas wafting through the apartment. 

It’s amazing how such flavourful juicy chicken thighs come from such a quick and easy recipe.

Recipe here (and proper link to Grantourismo in our bio): https://grantourismotravels.com/soy-ginger-chicken-recipe/

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Who can guess the ingredients and what we’re mak Who can guess the ingredients and what we’re making with my market haul from Psar Samaki in Siem Reap — all for a whopping 10,000 riel (US$2.50)?! 

Birds-eye chillies thrown in for free! They were on my list but the seller I spent most at (5,000 riel!) scooped up a handful and slipped them into my bag. She was my last stop and knew what I was making.

My Khmer is poor, even after all our years in Cambodia, as I don’t learn languages with the ease I did in my 20s, plus I’m mentally exhausted after researching and writing all day. I have a better vocabulary of Old and Middle Khmer than modern Khmer from studying the ancient inscriptions for the Cambodian culinary history component of our cookbook I’m writing.

So when one seller totalled my purchases I thought she said 5,000 riel but she handed back 4,500 riel! The sum total of two huge bunches of herbs and kaffir lime leaves was 500 riel.

Tip: if visiting Siem Reap, use Khmer riel for local shopping. We’ve mainly used riel since the pandemic started— rarely use US$ now as market sellers quote prices in riels, as do local shops and bakeries, and I tip tuk tuk drivers in riels. I find prices quoted in riels are lower.

Psar Samaki is cheaper than Psar Leu, which is cheaper than Psar Chas, as it’s a wholesale market, which means the produce is fresher. I see veggies arriving, piled high in the back of vehicles, with dirt still on them — as I did on this trip. 

The scent of a mountain of incredibly aromatic pineapples offloaded from the back of a dusty ute was so heady they smelt like they’d just been cut. More exotic European style veggies arrive by big trucks in boxes labelled in Vietnamese (from Dalat) and Mandarin (from China), such as beautiful snow-white cauliflower I spotted.

Note: the freshest produce is sold on the dirt road at the back of the market.

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My Vietnamese-ish meatballs and rice noodles recip My Vietnamese-ish meatballs and rice noodles recipe makes tender meatballs doused in a delightfully tangy-sweet sauce, sprinkled with crispy fried shallots, with carrot-daikon, crunchy cucumber and fragrant herbs. 

The dish is inspired by bún chả, a Hanoi specialty, but it’s not bún chả. No matter what Google or food bloggers tell you. Names are important, especially when cooking and writing about cuisines not our own.

This is an authentic bún chả recipe:  https://grantourismotravels.com/vietnamese-bun-cha-recipe/ You’ll need to get the outdoor BBQ/grill going to do proper smoky bún chả meat patties (not meatballs).

My meatball noodle bowl is perhaps more closely related to dishes such as a Central Vietnam cousin bún thịt nướng (pork skewers on rice noodles in a bowl) and a Southern relation bún bò Nam Bộ (beef atop rice noodles, sprinkled with fried shallots (Nam Bộ=Southern Vietnam) though neither include meatballs. 

Xíu mại= meatballs although they’re different in flavour to mine, which taste more like bún chả patties. Xíu mại remind me of Southern Italian meatballs in tomato sauce.

In Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, home to millions of Khmer, there’s bánh tằm xíu mại. Bánh tằm=silk worm noodles. They’re topped with meatballs, cucumber, daikon, carrot, fresh herbs, crispy fried onions. Difference: cold noodles doused in a sauce of coconut cream and fish sauce. 

Remove the meatballs, add chopped fried spring rolls and it’s Cambodia’s banh sung, which is a rice noodle salad similar to Vietnam’s bún chả giò :) 

Recipe here: (link in bio) https://grantourismotravels.com/vietnamese-meatballs-and-rice-noodles-recipe/

For more on these culinary connections you’ll have to wait for our Cambodian cookbook and culinary history. In a hurry to know? Come support the project on Patreon. (link in bio)

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It is pure coincidence that Pepper’s eye colour It is pure coincidence that Pepper’s eye colour matches the furnishings of our rented apartment. So, no, I did not colour-coordinate the interiors to match our cat’s eyes. 

I keep getting DMs from pet clothing brands wanting to “partner” with Pepper and send her free cat clothes and cat accessories. Although she did wear a kerchief for a few years in her more adventurous fashion-forward teenage years, I cannot see this cat in clothes now, can you? 

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