char kway teow (i)

su-lin tells me that i will fail miserably because i don't have a gigantic fire to imbue wok hei, and perhaps she knows best since she has apparently attempted it. nevertheless, i absolutely must have something ethnic for the ethnic potluck in a couple of weeks, and everything else i could think of was even more adventurous. i spent 2 hours in chinatown yesterday vacillating over which sambal was appropriate, but being unable to taste any of them, it was still a shot in the dark. anyhow, today is the experiment, and i have 2 weeks to rectify whatever goes wrong before the real thing.