Prawn Noodle Soup

This is 1 of the yummy food which i always eat during my childhood. Normally dad will cook this dish for us on alternate sundays. Dad is a great cook. He cooks better than mum & i reali learn alot from dad.
This moning, dad, mum & myself, we were bz preparing prawn noodle soup as breakfast for our whole family. We had so much fun cooking, laughing together & its definately an enjoyable breakfast.

Did u all noticed that no dark soy sauce was used for the soup base? Well, the original taste of prawn noodle soup doesn't requires dark sauce. The dark tone of colour was created using caramelized rock sugar.

Ingredients;
1 kg yellow noodles
600g medium prawns
350g lean meat
1 pig skin
80g bean sprouts
1 bunch kangkong
200g lard
1/3 cup vegetable oil
½ pot boiling water

Soup base;
1500ml water
1 tsp pepper seeds, crushed
1 cinnamon stick
2 clove
1 star anise
1 clove garlic, minced
1 piece rock sugar, about 3 by 2 cm
¼ tsp salt
¼ tsp msg

Method,
-Boil noodles, bean sprouts & kangkong individually, drained & set aside.
-Bring 1500ml water to boil, add in prawns, remove when cooked.
-Add in lean meat slices to boil, remove when cooked.
-Add pig skin to the stock, let it boil till tender.
-Cut lard into bite sizes, fry in 1/3 cup vegetable oil till crispy, drained.
-Add all the spices to the soup, let it simmer.
-Fry garlic with 1 tbsp oil till fragrant, add in rock sugar, let it caramelized.
-Add a ladleful of soup to the rock sugar, mix well.
-Pour rock sugar mixture into soup base.
-Bring to full boil, season with salt & msg.
-To assemble; lay meat, prawns, veggie, pig skin over noodles, serve piping hot soup over.
-Garnish with fried shallots & crispy lard.
-Enjoy!