Chicken and Rice Vermicelli Soup

Ingredients

• 8 oz. mi fen (dried rice vermicelli)
• ¼ cup medium dried shrimp
• 4 large dried shiitake mushrooms
• ¼ cup vegetable oil
• 4 large garlic cloves, finely chopped
• 8 cups chicken stock
• 5 scallions, white parts only; 3 crushed, 2 thinly cut on the bias
• 2 thin slices peeled fresh ginger
• Kosher salt
• 1 skinless boneless chicken breast, very thinly cut on the bias
• 4 heads baby bok choy, trimmed, leaves separated
• ½ cup cilantro leaves
• 2 red bird’s eye chiles, thinly sliced on the bias