Wintery Noodle Soup 榨菜肉絲湯麵

I made a whole lot of pork with zhacai 榨菜 (a hot pickled kholrabi like vegetable). It is a easy thing to make. Lean pork is cut into strips just like the zhacai, marinates lightly with salt, sugar, cooking wine and cornstarch. It is cooked in a hot wok until white and then ginger, zhacai and shiitake are added. Toss it all about, add cooking wine, sugar, soy sauce and some water. Cook until the flavours come together, add some sesame oil and that is it. I like to over salt it a little; that way I can put it into some hot water and a very flavourful soup is made for noodles. With it in the fridge, a quite meal is never more then 10 minutes away.