MANDALAY NANGYI (RICE NOODLE SALAD WITH CURRI

      Title: MANDALAY NANGYI (RICE NOODLE SALAD WITH CURRI
  Categories: Burma, Salads, Poultry
       Yield: 4 Servings
  
   1 1/2 lb Cornish game hen, cut into
            - 4 pieces, include giblets
       1 ts Fish sauce
     1/4 ts Salt
       2 tb Corn or peanut oil
     1/2 ts Fine-chopped fresh ginger
     1/2 ts Fine-chopped garlic
     1/8 ts Ground turmeric
     1/4 ts Paprika
       1 sm Onion, chopped
     1/4 c  Chopped fresh or canned
            Tomato
       1 c  Water
     1/2 lb Thick rice noodles (rice
            -sticks)
 
 MMMMM-------------------------GARNISHES------------------------------
       2 tb Toasted chick-pea flour
            -(besan) (recipe separately)
       1 sm Onion, sliced thin
       1    Scallion, cut into
            -1/4-inch-wide slices
     1/4 c  Coarse-chopped fresh
            -coriander
            Fish sauce (nam pya ye)
       1 tb Lightly-toasted dried hot
            -red chili flakes
            Wedges of fresh lime
  
   1.  Marinate hen with fish sauce and salt for 15 minutes.
   
   2.  Heat the oil in a pan and brown the ginger, garlic, turmeric, and
   paprika over moderate heat for 2 minutes.
   
   3.  Add the onion and game hen and brown well for about 10 minutes.
   Add the tomato and stir fry for 2 minutes more. Lastly add the water,
   cover the pan, and cook for 30 minutes, or until the hen is tender.
   
   4.  Cool the curry.  Remove all the meat from the bones, cut into
   cubes, and mix with the remaining curry sauce. Slice the giblets.
   
   5.  In a large dish, cover the noodles with boiling water and let
   stand for 15 minutes.  Drain well and set aside.
   
   6.  Each person helps himself, putting the food on his plate in the
   following order:  first a generous helping of rice noodles and a
   heaping tablespoon of the hen and sauce. Then sprinkle over that 1 or
   2 teaspoons of 'besan', several slices of onion, scallion, coriander,
   2 or 3 teaspoons fish sauce, and a pinch of the hot chili flakes.
   Each diner mixes his own salad on his plate and squeezes lime juice
   over all.
   
   Eat at room temperature and help yourself to seconds, mixed to taste.
   
   Variation:
   
   The curried hen can also be served on its own with plain rice.
   
   From:  THE BURMESE KITCHEN by Copeland Marks and Aung Thein, Evans and
   Company, Inc., New York.  1987. ISBN 0-87131-524-6 Posted by: Karin
   Brewer, Cooking Echo, 9/92
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