Big Plate Chicken (Da Pan Ji)

Ingredients

• 300g boneless chicken thighs, diced into cubes
• 1 tsp light soy sauce
• 1 tsp sesame oil
• 1 tsp Shaoxing wine
• 1 tsp corn flour
• 3 cassettes dried flat noodles
• 50g carrot, cut into 5mm thick slices
• 100g potato, cubed
• 100g red capsicum, cut into chunks
• 100g green capsicum, cut into chunks
• 2 star anise
• 1 cinnamon stick
• 2 bay leaves
• 1cm knob of ginger, sliced
• 1 tsp minced garlic
• ½ tsp Sichuan peppercorns
• 3 dried chillies
• 1 tsp sugar
• 2 tbsp cooking oil
• 1 tsp dark soy sauce
• ½ tbsp Shaoxing wine
• 2 cups water
• 1 spring onion stalk, cut diagonally in 5cm length
• Salt to taste