Wonton Char Siu Noodle Soup (叉烧云吞面) (2024)

This easy wonton char siu noodle soup features springy egg noodles and tender leafy greens served in a hearty chicken broth, topped with scrumptious char siu pork and juicy wontons. This dish is a perfect way to use your leftover BBQ pork and provide a restaurant-level experience in your own kitchen.

Wonton char siu noodle soup is a popular Contonese dish that is often served for breakfast but I like to enjoy it at any time of day. I still remember ordering it when we were visiting Hong Kong. You can easily find a small diner on almost every block, walk in and have a big bowl of handmade goodies for under 8 dollars.

Today I want to show you how to make wonton char siu noodle soup at home. It is a great way to use your leftover char siu pork and wontons to make a hearty meal.

Ingredients for making wonton char siu noodle soup

Char siu pork

You can use the leftover from your homemade char siu pork (or this air fryer version) to make wonton char siu noodle. If you’re lucky enough to live close to a Chinatown or a Cantonese restaurant, you can also just buy a block of char siu and use it directly.

If you don’t have char siu pork on hand, feel free to replace it with whatever other type of protein you prefer. Leftover rotisserie chicken, roast beef, and pulled pork all work well here.

Wontons

There are several homemade wonton recipes for you to choose from: pork and shrimp wontons, Watercress and pork wontons, chicken wontons and vegetables wontons. When you make wontons at home, it’s always easier to make a big batch and freeze the extras. So this dish is a perfect way to use them.

And of course, you can purchase pre-made frozen wontons from the Asian market. I always get Wei Chuan frozen wontons when I feel extra lazy and need some comfort food!

Noodles

To make authentic tasting wonton char siu noodle soup, you should use the Hong Kong style wonton noodles. They are thin egg noodles that have a beautiful yellow color. Similar to ramen noodles, this type of noodles uses lye water to give it an extra chewy texture.

You can usually find fresh wonton noodles in the refrigerated section or freezer section at Asian markets. The next best alternative is ramen noodles, which are commonly sold at Japanese markets and sometimes even at grocery stores like Whole Foods.

If fresh noodles are hard to find, I highly recommend using a thin wheat noodle such as somen noodles. Most of the dried egg noodles are produced for fried noodles, and they might have a weird texture when you put them into a soup.

How to make wonton char siu noodle soup

Making wonton char siu noodle soup is so easy:

1. Boil the broth ingredients
2. Blanch the green vegetables
3. Boil the noodles (in the same pot you blanch the vegetables)
4. Boil the wontons (also in the same pot you blanch the vegetables)
5. Put them all together and eat

That’s it!

Afterthought

Wonton char siu noodle soup is such a satisfying and comforting one-bowl meal that is so good during the cooler months. I hope this post will guide you through the process to help you recreate the restaurant experience in your own kitchen. Also, I hope you can still try this one out if you don’t have special ingredients such as char siu pork at home. This noodle broth base is very delicious, so you can totally be creative and assemble your own noodle bowl using different ingredients.

Other delicious noodle recipes

• Soy Sauce Pan Fried Noodles (广式豉油皇炒面)
• Drunken Noodles (Pad Kee Mao)
• Chinese Chicken Noodle Soup
• XO Noodles with Shrimp
• Beef Pan-Fried Noodles