Taiwanese Beef Noodle Soup | Marion's Kitchen

Name: Taiwanese Beef Noodle Soup | Marion's Kitchen
Prep time: 25 min
Cook time: 55 min
Total time: 80 min
Yield: 6
Ingredients: 3 tbsp vegetable oil; 1 onion, sliced; 6 garlic cloves; 3 slices fresh ginger; 6 spring onions (scallions); 2 large mild red chillies, deseeded; 3 tbspdoubanjiang*; 2 small tomatoes, cut into wedges; 2 tbsp brown sugar; ¼ cup dark soy sauce; ½ cup soy sauce; ½ cup ChineseShaoxingwine* (optional); 3 star anise; 500g (17.6 oz) boneless beef shank, cut into roughly 4cm cubes; 500g (17.6 oz) beef chuck steak, gravy beef or stewing beef, cut into roughly 4cm cubes; 4 cups beef stock; 800g (1.7 lb) cooked egg noodles; 3 small bunches of bok choy, halved and quickly blanched in boiling water; finely chopped spring onion (scallions) and coriander (cilantro), to serve