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Stir-fried noodles with vegetables

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Stir-fried noodles with vegetables, Chap Jae I bought a package of sweet potato vermicelli mistaking them for mung bean vermicelli or glass noodles. I never noticed this type of vermicelli before and didn't know how it was eaten. No problem. I googled and found that it is cooked in a similar way to the glass noodles. In fact, there is a well-known Korean dish called Chap Jae that is stir fried with vegetables. I made Chap Jae and it turned out very well. The noodles are firmer and have more bite than the glass noodles. Everyone loved the dish. In future, I'll be buying sweet potato vermicelli on purpose rather than by accident. Sweet potato vermicelli, called dang myun in Korean. Here is my version: Ingredients: A 14 ounce package of sweet potato vermicelli A quarter pound of beef, thinly sliced 2 shitake mushrooms, sliced, if using dried, soak in hot water to soften 4 dried cloud ear mushrooms, soaked in hot wate A bunch of spinach, washed 2 cups...