What is Pan Mee?

I can't find a proper explanation when i wiki pan mee.
I hope this little description of mine works well for those who do not have a clue to what is actually Pan Mee.

Pan Mee is a Chinese food. Some say it's a Hakka dish, while some claim that it's a Hokkien dish. But I personally think it's Hakka. LOL.

In Cantonese, we call it Pan Mee: "pan" means flat, and "mee" means noodles. Flat noodles or rather known as Pan Mee, are hand-kneaded noodles. In Mandarin, it's called "Ban Mian". The original way of cooking Pan Mee is by kneading the flour with hands and tearing the dough to pieces (by hand), before boiling. Nowadays people use a noodles shredder, so you have shredded Pan Mee instead of the hand-torn pieces.

I would say that Pan Mee is pretty similar to the Western Pasta, except there are no fillings in the dough. Pan Mee originally is cooked with clear anchovy soup, with added ingredients like Chinese mushroom slices, some fried onions, potato leaves, minced pork or chicken and topped with fried anchovies, and of course, served with chilli paste. Then there comes variety ~ the Dried Pan Mee, Curry Pan Mee, Claypot Pan Mee, etc.

Click on the Fan Pics section and see for yourself some variety of Pan Mee!