Yakisoba

It means "fried [soba] noodle"

I only recently learned the history of this dish... A Japanese version of chow mein (which is Chinese) created by soldiers after WWII to feed the hungry soldiers left with nothing else but American supplies. Spaghetti, ketchup, worcestershire plus anything else thrown in. Over the years it became a beloved street snack and it's probably bigger now than ever.

I used 2 packages of Yakisoba noodles (precooked) and soaked them in warm water and broke them up by hand.

It starts with good 'ole bacon diced and fried
Then started the stirfry assembly line.:

Fried with a little oil and sesame oil with salt and pepper, in batches, the noodles. Then broccoli, 5 heads of baby bok choy, 1 cup of julienne carrot, 6 green onion, 1 white onion, 2 tablespoons sesame seed, 6 ounces canned mushroom, 5 cloves diced garlic and the same amount grated ginger, 1 cup snow peas, 4 stalks diced celery.

Yakisoba sauce:
2 tsp sugar
2 tsp soy sauce
4 tsp ketchup
4 tsp Worcestershire sauce
4 tsp oyster sauce

For protein, I cooked 1 pound small shrimp and glazed with Frank's Sizzlin' Hot Honey Garlic Sauce, which is fantastic by itself.

HOLY SMOKES this is crazy tasty, no wonder it's popular. And nope, the ketchup and Worcestershire doesn't taste crazy. It tastes GREAT. I can see the appeal for Saturday night 2 am drunk or sober alike :)