Helen Hopkins' Noodle Soup Recipe

Ingredients

• 1 tbsp vegetable oil
• 200g shiitake mushrooms
• 2 pak choi
• 1.2l water, freshly boiled
• 2 tbsp ginger paste
• 2 tbsp garlic paste
• 4 tbsp soy sauce
• 1 vegetable stock cube
• 40g white miso paste
• sea salt and black pepper
• 250g fine egg noodles
• 1 tsp vegetable oil
• 280g firm tofu