Menma is a slightly sweet and delicious seasoning made from bamboo shoots cooked in soy sauce, water, and brown sugar. It is usually used as an ingredient of soup, especially Lamian Noodles. In Japanese cooking, Lamian Noodles is an almost ubiquitous condiment. Menma is usually made from fermented bamboo shoots, but some chefs use fresh or canned bamboo to create a new type of bamboo shoot. Bamboo shoots are a type of edible tender bamboo shoot that grows on vines when mature. This type of food can be used for various dishes, including Japanese cuisine, Chinese cuisine, and Indian cuisine. When consumed alone, it has a neutral flavor and can be used in various dishes, whether cooked or uncooked, sweet or spicy, although most people are familiar with Chinese stir fried dishes.

 

Mengma is often used as an ingredient in Lamian Noodles.

 

The bamboo shoots used by Mengma are usually fermented in lactic acid, and dried before packaging and sale to prepare meat filling from dried fermented bamboo shoots. First, they need to be soaked in water, sometimes meat broth, until the dried bamboo shoots become soft. When meat broth is used for watering, the most common is pork broth, but different broths can be used to complement the flavors of other ingredients in the dish.

 

When making mammoths from fresh or canned bamboo, bamboo shoots do not need to be soaked, which means that this dish can be prepared faster, but the taste is very different from that of traditional dry fermented bamboo dishes. Before adding Lamian Noodles, fresh or canned bamboo shoots should be boiled with the solution of original juice, soy sauce and sesame oil. Some recipes require adding a chili pepper to the cooked solution. Once boiled, their texture becomes soft and droops like bamboo noodles.

 

Lamian Noodles is a common Asian soup in many countries. Most grocery stores have cheap instant Lamian Noodles. Many people add ingredients to Lamian Noodles, and Moma is just one of the many ingredients used in Lamian Noodles. Other Lamian Noodles ingredients include nori, or roasted laver, pickles and onions. Eggs, including quail eggs or eggs, meat, such as roast pork or beef, fish balls or cakes are also common ingredients for Lamian Noodles.