Traditional Sapa Sui
- Banana Leaf Cafe
- Oct 13, 2021
- 1 min read
Sapasui is a classic favourite and adored in Samoa, there are many different ways to cook this dish. Check out this simple and traditional Sapa Sui to recreate at home!
Traditional Sapa Sui (Samoan Chop Suey) Recipe
By: Traditional Travel Food Atlas

Ingredients
250 g Vermicelli noodles
300 g Chicken meat
2 tbsp Peanut oil
1 Large onion
1 cup Soy sauce
2 Carrots
1 tbsp grated ginger
1 cup Water
1 Chicken stock cube
Pepper to taste
Instructions
Heat your peanut oil in a pan and on medium heat add crushed garlic, chopped onion and ginger.
Once the garlic starts to slightly brown, add your meat and carrots cut into matchsticks, and leave to cook.
In a separate pot cook your vermicelli noodles according to the instructions on the pack.
To the meat add your soy sauce, a cup of noodle water and your stock cube, and let it simmer for 5 minutes.
Once your noodles are cooked, snip them to around 5cm long and stir them into the mix.
If needed, add more soy sauce and water in small doses to get your required consistency.
Add pepper to taste and serve.
Watch and Cook Sapasui
Full recipe original link here.


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