Step 1: Coat the lean pork strips by adding in cooking wine, soy sauce, salt, chicken essence or monosodium glutamate. Stir well it with chopsticks until you feel it is a bit sticky.

  Step 2: Noodles are best cooked in a steamer. Fill the steamer pot 1/4 full of water. Grease the steamer basket with a thin layer of oil to prevent the noodles from sticking. Place the steamer basket in the pot, add noodles, cover and steam for 2-3 minutes. Take the noodles out and put into a bowl, add some cooking oil and stir it well with chopsticks. Return noodles to steamer and stream for another 2-3 minutes. Place in a bowl.

  Step 3: Place a wok over high heat until hot. Add some cooking oil, swirling to coat sides. Add the coated lean pork strips and stir-fry until the meat turns pale yellow in color. Add the ground chili, chopped ginger and chopped green onion. Stir-fry for 20 seconds. Add all of the vegetables and fry, stir for 1 minute.

  Step 4: Add some salt and chicken essence and stir-fry for 10 seconds. Finally, add in the steamed noodles and the tomato ketchup, and stir-fry it for a furthur 1 minute.

Turn off the heat. Chow Mein (Stir-fried Noodles) is cooked. Serve it onto a plate.