Hello hi everyone! This is a recipe for a dish that a few folks have requested now, which is a Chinese beef chow fun. Beef chow fun comes from Cantonese cuisine and is commonly associated with Hong Kong style street food. Here in the states, it’s also a staple of Chinese American cuisine throughout the country, and can have a wide array of veggies and meats included, depending on where you find it.

More specifically, today we’ll be adding to our Bay Area restaurant hack series, and taking a shot at the beef chow fun that you can find at a popular dumpling and noodle house here in Oakland Chinatown called Shan Dong. Their version of beef chow fun is fairly classic, using a combination baby bok choy, bean sprouts, flank steak and of course, wide chow fun rice noodles. I’ll also be taking a page from our Mongolian Beef recipe to nail down the most tricky part of this dish, which is the crispy seared beef. Hope you try it!

It will be out on Friday March 26, 2021, so bookmark the recipe here, and be sure to subscribe and hit the bell on YouTube to get notified when it’s out!

Woo Can Cook is a series where we reproduce fun foods and recipes from my childhood. Some of them are authentically Chinese and/or pan-Asian, but a lot of them are odd Americanized versions that I inherited from my parents and grandparents while growing up in the Bay Area/California.

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