Misua (also spelled mee sua or miswa) is a very thin variety of salted Chinese noodles made from wheat flour. It is originated from Fujian, China. They differ from mifen (rice vermicelli) and cellophane noodles in that the latter two are made from rice and mung beans, respectively, and typically a lot thinner than those two varieties.

Misua are cooked during important festivities, and eaten in China as well in Taiwan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Vietnam, Brunei, Thailand, and the Philippines. Misua signifies long life in Chinese culture, and as such is a traditional birthday food. It is usually served topped with ingredients such as eggs, oysters, pig's large intestine, shiitake mushroom, beef, shallots, or scallions, and roasted nuts.

Misua is Chinese Vermicelli. Misua Soup is one of the cheapest and easiest Filipino food one can make and is one of my fondest childhood food, maybe because mother made it for us all the time specially during those long rainy days in the Philippines and money was tight.

This dish doesn't require much ingredient and doesn't require much effort to cook it and one doesn't really need a recipe to follow either, because you can make up your own way of cooking it as you go, except for the commercially prepared ones served in restaurants where they have certain ways of cooking it. I don't think there's right or wrong way to make this soup and so you can add anything you want in it. If you make this with meatballs, then it becomes Almondigas (in Pilipino), Albondigas (in Spanish).

How to Prepare:

  

Misua Con Patola

Ingredients:
4 cloves garlic, crushed
1 medium onion, sliced
1/4 kg ground pork
1 can (140 g) tomato sauce
1 small (350 g) patola, sliced 1/4" thick crosswise
50 g misua
2 cups sili leaves


Directions:

1. Saute garlic, onion and ground pork. Cook for 5 minutes.
2. Add 3 cups water, tomato sauce, 3 tbsp patis (fish sauce) and 1/4 tsp pepper. Cook for 5 minutes.
3. Add patola. Cook for another 5 minutes.
4. Add misua. Simmer for another 2 minutes. Turn off heat. Add sili leaves.

Makes 6 servings.
Packed with Iron.