Recipe: Kai si ming

This is seriously a digusting recipe that Lupo so lovingly introduced me to, telling me that his mum used to make it all time. I tried to do a google search on its origins, but struggled to find any helpful links.  There does some to be some mentions of it being an "Asian delicacy" (puh-lease!) and to have appeared in a New Zealand Women's Weekly or something.  I think it's a terrible interpretation of  Chinese "Happy Noodles", which is roughly pronounced as "kai xin mian" in Chinese-Mandarin.

Anyway, there seems to be numerous variations on its spelling (ki si min, kai sing ming, kei si min...) and the recipe ingredients, but they all seem to involved cabbage and mince.

Lupo tried to cook it for me one night (early on in our relationship, when he was still trying to pass himself off as a good cook) and it involved a lot of cabbage, curry powder, and soy sauce - lots of it! Like, half a bottle!!!! I don't really remember there being meat in it - I'll ask him tonight. Anyway, needless to say, it was gross! So, so disgusting!!!! I couldn't believe that anyone would eat it!!!

Regardless, a lot of people on the internet seem to love the recipe and remember it fondly from their childhood! Here's one that I've just plucked from a random website. Enjoy?

Ingredients

2 tbsp butter

500g mince

3 or 4 sticks celery chopped finely

salt and pepper

1/4 to 1/2 cabbage shredded

1 pkt chicken noodle soup mix

1 desertspoon full of curry powder (keens is best)

1 onion chopped

Method

1. Fry the onions and curry powder in butter and add mince. Brown.
2. Add soup mix dissolved in water and simmer for 15 minutes. Add all of the vegetables and simmer with the lid closed for 10 minutes.
3. Eat and enjoy.