Mie celor

Mie celor is a noodle soup from Palembang, the largest city of South Sumatra in Indonesia, where it is counted with pempek among the signature foods of the city. The name is usually glossed as blanched noodle: in the local South Sumatran Malay dialect celor or celur means showering ingredients with boiling water, which describes how the noodles are softened and cooked before they are simmered in the soup. The noodles are rather large and yellow, made from wheat, and the broth is built on coconut milk with shrimp as its savoury backbone, made from either dried shrimp or fresh shrimp. Toppings are bean sprouts and hard boiled egg, scattered with sliced celery, scallion and fried shallot, with ground dried shrimp on top when dried shrimp was used, and a separate sambal for those who want heat. Some Palembang restaurants specialise in the dish and keep their own recipes within the family across generations.