Delicious LO MEIN cooked in a YESHIVA DORM?

You don't get this normally in a dorm room. This is my son, Yro. Hi. >> And you're going to help me out making bakar lain. You heard of bakar lomain? We'll >> find out today. >> The whole point of this recipe is that we're going to do things that you could do in a regular yeshiva dorm room. >> You remember when you were a baker in Yeshiva? >> Mhm. You remember that after hours after the meals were already served and you would want something warm and hot to eat and there's nowhere to get a nice hot meal. >> Yeah. >> And the bakham have to be very resourceful, right? >> Very resourceful. >> Okay. The basis of the bakalain is a good ramen. You get your parents to order you one of these, right? What do you have to do? You just you have to call them. What do you say? >> Hey. Hey T. How are you? >> How are you doing? How are you learning? >> Good. Good. Good. It's amazing. And by the way, Ta. >> Yes. >> Could you get could you get me some tradition soups to I need some food to eat. I'll absolutely will send you a case of tradition soups just like this. Okay. All right. So, open that up. We have here this is the vegetable packet and the flavor packet. We're going to use all this. Okay. And so, could you add the packets to the ramen noodles and the water? Okay. Get to the bottom. >> And I'm going to show you something. So, I have an extra vegetable packet here. I love the veggies. Okay, we're going to add the hot water. There's another thing you're going to need your parents to send you, and that is the hanging salami. This is a dry salami. Where did you get this from? >> House of >> in Crown Heights, House of Glatt, Kingston Avenue. Okay? And the point of it is you can hang this. Listen, Baham, I don't know how to say this, but having a dry salami hanging in your dorm room is not going to make it smell worse than it already smells. Okay? So, you're going to put the dry salami hanging in the dorm room. You can keep it for days. >> No fridge. >> No fridge. It does not require refrigeration. You can keep it for weeks. So, you sort of cut up the dry salami into cubes. Now, we're going to fry the salami in the griddle. And the point of this griddle, I got this for 40 bucks, $39.95 on Amazon. You plug it into any wall outlet and you keep this in your in your dorm. It's open. It does not need a lot of oil because the salami itself has a lot of fat that it fries in its own fat. Okay. The next thing is we're going to fry a couple of eggs. Yeah. Check each one then. Dump it in here. >> And you're checking it. >> Okay. Another egg. Okay. Okay. You ready? All right. Fry it up with scrambled eggs. Keep it separate. Keep it separate. Don't run them. I don't want them running together. All right. Now you got it all chunked up and separate. Let's take it off the griddle so it doesn't burn. Now we're going to take the ramen. The ramen is good and soft. Just throw it. Throw it on. Fine. The water will boil off. Okay. At this point, the dorm counselor comes running down banging on the door. Who's cooking in there? You just wait a minute. Just wait a minute. Okay. Now, we're going to add the flavor. The beauty of the flavor is this is all stuff that a regular yeshiva buck is going to have access to. So, we didn't buy a bottle of soy sauce. We got soy sauce packets. Where do you get these from? When your rich roommate orders sushi and he doesn't use the soy sauce, you take these. You collect these up. Where do you get these from? From >> the coffee room. >> From the coffee room. Very good. Okay. We're going to do six soy sauce packets. Six sugar packets. And while you said I was making the sauce, I'm going to tell you something interesting. Lain is a Cantonese word. There's a region in China in the south, I think it's Guangong, the exonym for it, it means the foreign way that we say it in English is Canton. What's interesting about Cantonese cuisine is they innovated lain. Lain is Cantonese for toss noodles as opposed to chia, which is Cantonese for crispy noodles. China has agriculturally speaking rice regions and wheat regions. The Cantonese region is a rice region. They brought in wheat from the north and they created Lain. Do you know culturally the difference between rice regions and wheat regions? >> Yes. >> What's the difference between them? >> The rice regions are more community. More community. >> Why are rice regions more communal? >> Because the rice is growing in swamps >> and it's all the water runs together. It's all connected. So you can't just say, "Oh, I'm only doing this to my part of the to the the swamp. It's affecting everybody >> versus a field." >> Ah, we do you grow in fields. You could have your field and another guy has his field and not affecting each other. So rice regions are more collectivist. Wheat regions are more individualist. So you have societies that are more into like the group, those are rice regions. And societies that are more into the individual, individual rights, freedoms, that's like wheat regions. In Torah, we have two Torah portions which the name of each of those Torah portions respectively are collectivism and individualism. The Yakel which means Moses gathered the people that is collectivism. Pic which means itemized accounts which is the very next Torah portion is individualism. What's interesting is sometimes the Yakil and Pud are read as one Torah portion in one week. So you have this paradox of these two opposites, collectivism and individualism together. So what's interesting to me is lain is a wheat dish. >> Okay, it's coming from the individualistic parts of China in the north. But it but but the dish was invented in the Cantonese region which is a rice region, a collectivist region in the south. So you have the yakel pud, you have the fusion together of the individualism and the group and that's what life is all about. All for one and one for all. >> And one for all. >> That's correct. Okay. Do you make the sauce? >> This is mixed in the sugar and the soy sauce. Yeah. >> Okay. Now we're going to put the eggs back in. Okay. And now we're going to add the sauce and stir it up real good. Okay. All right. Now, I'm going to take it all off. All right. So, you ready to try this? Try it. name is. >> Wow. >> Hot. >> Better than I expected. >> Yeah. Tasty, savory. >> You don't get this normally in a dorm room. >> And all with stuff that a regular Yeshiva bah has access to. >> Wow. So if you're a mother or father and you have a son in yeshiva and you want to show him that you love him and you want to support his Torah study, send them all the stuff here that it takes to make the bakra low me.