Serves: 4
Total Calories: 438

3 or 4 black, dried mushrooms
1/2 cup rice-flour noodles
1/2 pound lean beef
1 cup bamboo shoots
1 cup celery
1/3 cup dried onion
2 tablespoons oils
2 tablespoons oils
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup Stock, Chicken or favorite stock
2 teaspoons cornstarch
2 tablespoons water
1/2 teaspoon sugar
1 teaspoon soy sauce

1. Soak dried mushrooms.

2. Prepare rice-flour noodles as a deep-fried, crisp, white garnish. (See HOW-TO, _Noodles, Rice Flour: To prepare as a garnish.)

3. Slice beef thin against the grain. Slice thin the bamboo shoots, celery, dried onion and soaked mushrooms.

4. Heat remaining oil. Add beef and stir-fry until it loses its redness. Remove from pan.

5. Heat remaining oil. Add salt, then all the vegetables, and stir-fry 2 minutes.

6. Stir in stock and heat quickly. Cook, covered, 3 minutes over medium heat. Meanwhile blend cornstarch and cold water to a paste.

7. Return beef to pan then add sugar and soy sauce. Cook, stirring, 1/2 minute over high heat.

8. Stir in cornstarch paste to thicken. Top with rice-flour noodle garnish and serve at once.

VARIATIONS:
* For the vegetables, substitute 1 cup Chinese cabbage, 1/4 cup bamboo shoots, 10 snow peas and 8 water chestnuts.
* In step 5, add with the vegetables 2 slices fresh ginger root, minced.
* In step 8, before adding the rice-flour noodle garnish, sprinkle dish with 1 to 2 tablespoons almond meats, blanched, toasted and chopped.

The Thousand Recipe Chinese Cookbook. ©1994 by Gloria Bley Miller.

Nutritional Facts:

Serves: 4
Total Calories: 438
Calories from Fat: 185

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*Beef
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Basic Steamed Beef
Basic Stir-Fried Beef I
Basic Stir-Fried Beef I or II: Suggested Vegetable Combinations (1-4)
Basic Stir-Fried Beef I or II: Suggested Vegetable Combinations (5-7)
Basic Stir-Fried Beef II
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Braised Anise Beef I
Braised Anise Beef II
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Braised Curried Beef
Braised Marinated Beef
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Deep-Fried Beef Liver Cubes
Deep-Fried Beef Slivers With Celery
Deep-Fried Beef Strips And Onion
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Deep-Fried Hot Beef Shreds
Deep-Fried Paper-Wrapped Beef
Deep-Fried Short Ribs of Beef
Deep-Fried Sweet-and-Pungent Beef Cubes
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Red-Simmered Beef I
Red-Simmered Beef II
Red-Simmered Beef Tongue
Red-Simmered Spiced Beef With Turnips
Smoked Beef Balls
Smoked Beef I
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Steamed Beef Cubes
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Stir-Fried Beef And Bean Curd
Stir-Fried Beef And Bitter Melon
Stir-Fried Beef And Cauliflower
Stir-Fried Beef And Celery
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Stir-Fried Beef And Chinese Turnips
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Stir-Fried Beef And Lotus Root
Stir-Fried Beef And Mushrooms
Stir-Fried Beef And Onions
Stir-Fried Beef And Oyster Sauce I
Stir-Fried Beef And Oyster Sauce II
Stir-Fried Beef And Peas
Stir-Fried Beef And Peppers
Stir-Fried Beef And Preserved Mustard Cabbage
Stir-Fried Beef And Rice-Flour Noodles
Stir-Fried Beef And Snow Peas
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Stir-Fried Beef And String Beans II
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Stir-Fried Beef Liver I
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Stir-Fried Hot Beef Shreds
Stir-Fried Onion Crackle Beef
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Sweet-and-Pungent Beef Balls II