*You can 4 tbsp soy sauce or tamari but it’s more traditional with the dark soy sauce and it gives the noodles that nice dark colour as well as adds a touch of sweetness.
**Lee Kum Kee and Wa Ja Shan both have a vegetarian oyster sauce or you can use Naked and Saucy (that’s what I used). This can be found online, in any Asian food store or in natural food stores and well-stocked grocery stores.
***If you can find holy basil, that’s the best for this recipe. Next best is Thai basil. If you can’t find either of those, you can use Italian basil but the flavour will not be the same.
If you want to add tofu to this recipe, you can make fried tofu according to this sweet and sour tofu recipe or baked tofu according to this peanut tofu bowl recipe.
Fresh wide rice noodles are best in this recipe. They’re found in the refrigerated section at Asian grocery stores. If you can’t find those dried wide rice noodles work, these are easier to find in stores or online. If you can’t find wide rice noodles, regular rice noodles are ok.