Spicy Fried Noodle ala tehhun's style

Ingredients:
Egg Noodle (yellow noodle)
Chicken fillet
Onion, sliced
Garlic, chopped
Sawi, cleaned and cut into 3cm length

Carrot, sliced and julienne into 3cm length
Egg
Oil
Lime wedges

Seasoning:

Fried Chili Paste
Light soy sauce
Dark soy sauce

Oyster sauce
salt & pepper to taste

sesame oil

Method:

1. Heat oil in wok and stir fry onion and garlic until fragrant.

2. Add chicken to cook for 1 minute.
3. Break in egg and stir to cook.
4. Add the sawi and carrot and mix well.

5. Add noodles and the seasoning then mix well.
6. Stir well until is hot and dry.
7. Serve hot with lime wedge.

P/s : You may fry the egg in advance and julienne it, then toss it in the noodle while cooking (step 5).

金针木耳冬菇蒸鸡 Steam Chicken with Dried Lily flower, Black Fungus and Mushroom

This is one of my favourite, simple yet delicious dish.

You can prepare this in advance and steam it when you are cooking the rice. Easy easy....

Ingredients:

500 gm Chicken with bone (cut into 1 inch pieces)

Ginger (sliced or julienne)

Spring onion (cut into 1 inch length)

10 gm Dried lily flower (金针)

10 gm Dried black fungus (木耳)

5 gm Dried shitake mushroom (冬菇)

Seasoning:

2 tbsp Oyster sauce

2 tbsp Soy sauce

1/2 tsp sugar

2 tbsp Chinese wine

1 tbsp Sesame oil

Salt & pepper to taste

1 tbsp Corn flour + 5 tbsp water

Method:

1. Mix all ingredient into a big mixing bowl. Let it rest for 30 minutes or so.

2. Pour it into a deep dish.

3. Steam over high fire for 20-30 minutes.

4. Serve with steam rice. The gravy is so yummy with just plain steam rice......

P/s:

1. I prefer to use drumstick, thigh and wing part, but you can also use chicken breast.

2. You may also use boneless chicken (300gm, cut into slice or chunck), and shorten the cooking time.

扣肉 Braised Pork Belly with Yam

Love to share this recipe which I got from a foodie magazine. However, I have made a bit of changes to suit my taste. It's not that difficult to make but it definately requires a bit of work. But the final result is worth every effort :)

Hope you will like it ....

Ingredients:

800gm - 1 kg Pork belly with skin

800gm - 1 kg Yam

1 tbsp Chopped garlic

1 tbsp Corn Flour + 3 tbsp water

Seasoning A:

2 pcs Red fermented tofu (南乳)

1 tbsp Sauce of red fermented tofu

1 1/2 tsp Soy bean paste (豆酱)

3 pcs Star anise (八角)

4 pcs Clove (丁香)

1 inch Cinnamon stick (桂皮)

Seasoning B:

1 tbsp Soy sauce

1 tbsp Oyster sauce

1 tsp Sesame oil

1 tbsp Sugar

1 tbsp Dark soy sauce

1 tbsp Chinese wine

1 tbsp Five spice powder (五香粉)

3 1/2 bowls Water

Method:

1. Blanch pork belly in boiling water for 10 minutes, then rub with some dark soy sauce while hot, then pierce the skin with needle or tip of the knife.

2. Heat frying pan with some oil, then pan fry the skin side until golden brown, dish out and rinse under tap water until the skin shows fine lines(curl a bit), then cut into 2 cm thick slices.

3. Cut yam as the same size of meat, then pan fry both side of the yam with little bit of oil until golden brown.

4. Arrange the yam and meat alternately in a deep bowl by skin side facing down.

4. Heat 2 tbsp oil, saute the garlic and seasoning A until fragrant, then pour in seasoning B and bring to boil, thicken with corn flour water. Pour gravy over the meat.

5. Steam the dish for 3-5 hours, until the meat is tender.

6. Serve hot with steam rice. I can assure you will love this! 开饭咯！！！

Pickled Green Chili (青辣椒酸）

I've some green chilies which has been sitting in the fridge for weeks....

so I have decided to turn them into something tasty :)

Ingredients:

Green chilies

Sugar

Vinegar

Method:

1. Slice the green chilies and blanch them in hot water for 1 minute only. Strain and leave it to cool and dry.

2. Put the chilies into a jar (make sure no excess water), put some sugar and pour some distilled vinegar just enough to cover the chilies.

3. Put on the lid and.... you have your pickled chilies ready...

4. This is how it looks, after one day. It can be kept up to a month or so.

Char Kuih Kak

Ingredient:

For Kuih Kak:

Rice flour

Tapioca starch

Salt

Oil

Water

For stir fry:

Chopped Garlic

Chopped preserved turnip

Dried shrimp, soak and chopped

Prawn (you may use marinated pork fillet, chicken fillet)

Egg

Bean sprout

Chives, cut into 2 inch length

Spring onion, cut into 2 inch length

Oyster sauce

Light soy sauce

Dark soy sauce

Sesame oil

Salt & pepper to taste

Method:

To make the Kuih Kak:

1. Mix rice flour, tapioca starch, salt, oil and water. Pour into a rectangular tray.

2. Steam the mixture for 45 minutes to 1 hour.

3. Remove from steamer and leave it to cool completely.

4. Cut the Kuih Kak into 1.5cm square cube. Keep a side.

To cook the Kuih Kak:

1. Pan fry the kuih kak with some oil in non-stick frying pan. Until all sides are golden brown. Keep a side.

2. Heat some oil in a wok saute the dried shrimp, chopped preserved turnip and garlic. Stir fry until golden brown.

3. Add the prawn and cook for 1 minute.

4. Crack in an egg, stir and break the egg and let it cook for 1 minute.

5. Add the pan fried Kuih Kak. Mix well.

6. Season with Oyster sauce, Light soy sauce, Dark soy sauce, sesame oil, salt & pepper.

7. Add the bean sprout, chives, spring onion and mix well for 1 minutes.

8. Ready to serve.

p/s:

1. Make the Kuih Kak in advance, it's much easier to cut and handle the cool Kuih Kak.

2. You can add some grind chili / chili boh / sambal tumis in "Step 3 of To Cook the Kuih Kak", cook the chili for 1 min, then add prawn.

Kon Loh Mee Series 干捞面系列

Kon Loh Mee with Char Siew and Chicken Curry

Kon Loh Mee with Siew Yuk served with Pork meatball soup

Kon Loh Mee with Char Siew and braised mushroom

Siew Yuk Kon Loh Mee 烧肉干捞面

Kon Loh Mee served with Siew Yuk

Ingredient:

Wantan mee (1 nos per serving)
Siew Yuk/Crispy Roast Pork/烧肉

Sauce:

Dark soy

Light soy

Oyster sauce

Salt

Pepper

Sugar

Garlic Oil

Method:

1. Bring sauce to a boil and set a side.

2. Bring a pot of water to boil, cook the noodles for 2-3 minutes, until al dente. Drain the noodles and run it under cool water.

3. Toss noodle with sauce, mix well and ready to serve with desired topping.

Chee Cheong Fun II

Sucessful CCF... but forgot to sprinkle sesame seed on top

I have Wheat Starch now.. so this time it turn out well. so happy.

Recipe

Chee Cheong Fan

This was not a successful CCF :(
but I will try again......

Found this Chee Cheong Fan recipe here. I didn't use Wheat Starch because I can't get it here. I guess that's the main reason of my CCF didn't turn out well.

Steam bun

I though this was difficult to make, but I was wrong.
I made: Char Siew Pau, Tausa Pau(red marking), Kaya Pau(green marking)

Ingredients:
3 tbsp Sugar
250ml Warm water
1 1/2 tsp dried yeast or 10gm of fresh yeast (I used dried yeast)
400gm Strong Flour=高筋面粉 (they are also known as Pau Flour/Hong Kong Flour)
2 tbsp Cooking oil(sunflower or soya oil will do)
1 1/2 tsp Baking powder

Filling (your choice):
Tausa (Red Bean paste) can get ready made in Japanese food store/Baking shop
Kaya (home-made or can)
Char Siew (diced and mix with some char siew sauce)
Minced Pork

Method:
1. Dissolve the sugar in the warm water, then add the yeast. Stir lightly, then set aside for 10 minutes, or until foamy.

2. Sift the flour into a bowl and add the yeast mixture and the oil. Using a wooden spoon, mix the ingredients to a rough dough.

3. Turn the mixture out onto a lightly floured surface and knead for 8-10 minutes, or until the dough is smooth and elastic. If it's very stick, knead in a little more flour- the dough should be soft.

4. Lightly grease a bowl with some oil. Place the dough in the bowl and turn it so all sides of the dough are coated.

5. Cover the bowl with a damp cloth and set aside to rise in a drought-free place for 3 hours.

After 3 hours

6. Uncover the dough, punch it down, and turn it out onto a lightly floured surface. If you are not using the dough straightaway, cover it with plastic wrap and refrigerate.

7. When you are ready to use the dough, flatten it and make a well in the center.

8. Place the baking powder in the well and gather up the edges to enclose the baking powder. Pinch the edges to seal. Lightly knead the dough for several minutes to evenly incorporate the baking powder, which will activate immediately.

9. Divide the dough into 12 large or 24 small portions, depending on how large you want the buns to be. Cover with a tea towel.

10. Working with one portion at a time, press the dough into circles with the edges thinner than the center.

11. Place the filling on the dough. Draw the sides in to enclose the filling. Pinch the top together and put each bun on a square of greaseproof paper. (Make sure that you seal them properly. The buns can also be turned over, then cooked the other way up so they look like round balls.)

12. Place the buns well apart in the steamer. Cover and steam over simmering water for 10-15 minutes, or until the buns are well risen and a skewer inserted into the centre comes out hot.
Tips:
1. I did try using all purpose flour to make the bun, but the result is not as good as Strong Flour. The colour is a bit yellowish and it didn't rise as much as the strong flour, texture is also no that good.
2. You can steam it then leave to cool and freeze it up to a week.
3. Use only 1 drop of colouring and mix with 1 tsp of water is more than enough for marking. Use a toothpick to do the marking.

Steam Fish

Ingredients:
1 Pomfret
Ginger, cut into julienne
Dash of pepper

Seasoned soy sauce for steam fish
Fried garlic oil
Spring Onion, cut into julienne
Carrot, cut in to julienne

Method:
1. Clean fish, pat dry with kitchen paper. Season the fish with some pepper.
2. Place the fish in a plate, arrange the julienne ginger.
3. Steam fish for 5 minutes.
4. Remove the excess liquid from the fish.
5. Pour the seasoned soy sauce over the fish and continue to steam for 2 minutes or till the fish is cooked.
6. Garnish the fish with some fried garlic & oil, spring onion and carrot julienne.
7. Serve hot.

I use this:

Curry Mee

Ingredients for Laksa paste:
6 dried chillies
2 stalks lemongras
8 shallots, peeled
4 cloves garlic, peeled
2 tbsp coriander seeds, roasted
10 white peppercorns
5gm belacan

100ml cooking oil

Laksa Stock:
1 ltr chicken stock
500ml coconut milk
15g rock sugar
2 tsp salt to taste
10 beancurd puffs, halved (Optional)

600g yellow noodles, scalded
200g dried rice vermicelli(Beehoon), scalded
150g beansprouts, scalded

Topping:
Prawn, cooked and shelled
Chicken, cooked and shredded
Egg, hard boiled and shelled

Garnish:
Sambal/Fried Chili Paste
Spring onion, chopped
Fried shallots

Method to prepare laksa stock:
1. Roughly cut up the chillies, lemongrass, shallots and garlic.
2. Pound or blend all the laksa paste ingredients(except oil), until fine.
3. Heat the oil and fry the paste until fragrant.
4. Add chicken stock, bring to a boil and simmer for 5minutes before adding the coconut milk.
5. Season to taste with the rock sugar and salt.
6. Add the beancurd puffs and cook for a few minutes, stirring continuously to prevent the coconut milk from curdling.

To serve:
1. Place some noodles, beehoon and bean sprouts in a bowl.
2. Top with some egg, prawn and chicken.
3. Ladle the laksa over with a few beancurd puffs.
4. Garnish with chopped spring onion, fried shallot and sambal belacan.
5. Serve hot.

Fried Pomfret served with Ginger & Garlic Soy

Ingredients:
Pomfret
Salt & pepper
Corn flour

Ginger, cut into julienne
Chopped garlic
Light soy sauce
Dark soy sauce
Sesame oil

Method:
1. Clean the fish, pat dry and season with salt & pepper.
2. Lightly coat fish with corn flour.
3. Heat oil for deep frying.
4. Once the oil is hot enough, put in the fish for deep frying until it's crispy.
5. Remove and drain on kitchen towel.
6. Keep some oil in the work and fry the ginger until it's crispy, remove and keep aside.
7. Fried the garlic till golden brown, then remove and keep aside.
8. Arrange the fish on a plate.
9. Sprinkle the fish with some fried ginger julienne, and fried garlic.
10. Drizzle some light soy, dark soy and sesame oil
11. Ready to serve.

Chicken Char Siew

I tried this because my mother in law doesn't eat pork. It turned out well, and she loves it!

Ingredients:
1.5 kg Whole Chicken drumstick, debone

Marinade:
5 tbsp Hoisin sauce
1 tsp Fresh garlic, chopped
4 tsp Soy sauce
1 tbsp Dark soy sauce
1/4 cup Sugar
2 tbsp Shao Xing Rice wine
1 tsp Five spice powder
1/4 Salt
1/2 tsp Red colouring
1 tbsp honey
1 tbsp oil

Method:
1. Marinade chicken with all the ingredients for 2 hours or more.

2. Pre heat the oven to 220 c.

3. Place the chicken (keep the marinating sauce) on a rack, grill for 20 minutes until both side are cooked, brushing the marinating sauce on the meat to give a nice shinny glaze.

4. Increase the heat to 250 c and Grill the meat for further 5 minutes until slightly charred.

5. Boil the marinating sauce mixture in a wok until it is thicken sauce.

6. Cut the meat into slices and serve with the sauce.

Tips: 1. You can use chicken breast

Instant Roti Canai

Buatan Malaysia!
p/s: I don't get any commission for promoting this product.
Because I find this is good, so I would like to share it!

This was recommended by my friend. I quit like this, easy to cook and taste good too. You can get it in most of the supermarket in UAE.

Braised Pork with Soy Sauce III

I have some left over gravy. Which I don't want to waste it, so I make it into this dish.

Ingredients:
Pork ribs
Dried mushroom, soaked
Fu Chuk, soaked

Method:
1. Boil a pot of water and blanch the pork. Then rinse under running tap water. Set aside
2. Heat up the gravy, add pork and mushroom. Make sure the liquid is enough to cover the meat, should you add more water. Don't forget to add more seasoning as well.
3. Cook over a slow fire for 1.5-2 hours or until meat is tender.
4. Add in the fu chuk and continue to cook for 30 minutes.
5. Ready to serve.

Tips:
1. Blanch the pork could help to remove the odour from the meat.
2. You can add hard boiled egg in it as well.
3. Best served with steamed white rice or porridge.

Braised Soy Sauce Chicken / 豉油鸡 / 卤鸡

Thanks to Nyuk Shan for sharing this simple and delicious recipe. I cooked this last night and my husband love it!
The original recipe from Nyuk Shan is very simple, I am sure it taste as good as it is!
Because I am using frozen chicken, so I was a bit concern the chicken might have smell (血腥味). Hence, I put in some additional ingredients to avoid the smell and to enhance the dish (提味).

Ingredients:
500gm Chicken drumstick, cut into pieces
2 tbsp Sugar
Dark soy sauce
Light soy sauce
Pepper
Water

Optional ingredients:
3 Ginger slices
2 Cloves Garlic
2 Shallot
1 Star Anise
10 White pepper corn, crushed

Method:
1. Heat up a clean work, put in sugar and let is caramelized till golden colour over slow fire.
2. Add in the dark soy, light soy, pepper and water then bring it to boil.
3. Add in the optional ingredients.
4. Add in chicken. Make sure the liquid is enough to cover the chicken.
5. Cook over low fire till the meat is tender and sauce thicken.
6. Ready to serve. Best to eat with steamed rice or porridge.

Tips:
1. Make sure don't burnt the sugar, or else the dish will taste bitter.
2. If you don't like the dish to be too sweet, reduce the sugar to 1 tbsp.
3. You can use PORK to cook this dish.
4. You can keep the gravy and add in hard boiled egg-卤蛋 (then you get another effortless dish!! Lazy cooking! Horray!!!)

Sambal Belacan / Fried Chili Paste

Ingredients:
30 Dried Chilies, remove the seeds and soaked to soften
5 Fresh Red Chillies
10 Shallots, peeled
4 Cloves Garlic, peeled
4 tbsp Dried Shrimp, soaked
2 tsp Belacan
Sugar and salt to taste
Cooking oil

Method:
1. Roughly cut up the dried and fresh chillies, shallots and garlic.
2. Blend or pound chillies, shallots, garlic, dried shrimp and belacan to a paste.
3. Heat up the oil and fry the paste at slow fire until fragrant. Season with salt and sugar.
4. Ready to serve.

Tips:
1. Add just a little bit of water when you blend the ingredients.
2. Should you like the sambal to be more spicy, you don't have to remove the seed of the dried chillies.
3. You may cook this is big quantity and store it in the fridge.
4. You can serve this Sambal Belacan with Prawn mee, Curry mee.
5. You can use this sambal to cook Kangkung belacan, or other vegetable.

Loh Mai Kai

Ingredients:
500gm glutinous rice, soaked overnight and drain
2 cups water/chicken stock
2 tbsp chopped garlic
2 tbsp chopped shallots
2 pieces whole chicken leg meat, debone and sliced
100gm char siew, sliced
1 Chinese sausage (Lap Cheong), sliced
3 black Chinese mushrooms, soaked and cut into thin slices

Seasoning A:
1 tbsp light soy sauce
1 tbsp dark soy
1 tsp sesame oil
1 tbsp oyster sauce
1 tsp sugar
1/4 tsp pepper
1/4 tsp salt
1 tbsp ginger juice, grated ginger and squeeze out the juice
1 tbsp Rice wine
1 tbsp corn flour
2 tbsp water

Seasoning B:
2 tbsp light soy sauce
1 tbsp dark soy sauce
1 tbsp oyster sauce
2 tsp sesame oil
1 tsp Chinese Five spice powder
1 tsp pepper
1 tsp sugar
1 tsp salt
Seasoning powder (optional)
3 tbsp oil

Method:
1. Marinate chicken with seasoning A for about 2 hours.

2. Heat some oil in wok, saute 1 tbsp of shallots and 1 tbsp of garlic until fragrant. Then add chicken and mushrooms to cook for 2 minutes. Dish out and keep aside.

3. Heat 3tbsp oil in wok, saute 1 tbsp of shallots and 1 tbsp of garlic until fragrant, then put in the glutinous rice and seasoning B and mix well. Dish out and keep aside.

4. Use rice bowl or small stainless steal bowl, arrange mushroom slices, chinese sausages, chicken and char siew. Top up with glutinous rice(don't fill it up so much, keep some room about 1cm) and lightly press it down with a spoon.

5. Fill the bowls with water/chicken stock, make sure the water level is above the rice(aprox 0.5cm).

6. Steam for 50 minutes. Turn over the rice bowl onto a plate and serve.

**Seasoning is subject to individual preference, you can adjust it to your liking.
**You can freeze it up to 6 months. Cool the Loh Mai Kai completely, unmold it from the bowl then use a aluminium foil to wrap it like parcel and Freeze it.
**To cook, take out from freezer(No need to defrost) and steam the whole aluminium parcel on boilding water for 30mins. Discard the aluminium foil and Ready to serve. 

MeatBalls

Ingredients:
500gm meat

Seasoning:
2 tbsp soy sauce
1/2 tsp white pepper
1 tsp sugar
1 egg white
1 tbsp sesame oil

Mix together:
1 tsp salt
1 tbsp cornflour
1 tbsp water

Method:
1. Mince the meat in a food processor until really fine almost like a paste.

2. Transfer processed meat to the cake mixer and use the paddle, beat the meat for 10 seconds, then add in the seasonings. Beat the meat again until seasonings are well blended.

3. Add in the salt, cornflour and water mixture and beat until the meat feels spongy.

4. Heat a small pot of water. Make balls by taking a small amount of paste in your hand and squeeze the paste through the thumb and index finger to form balls. Remove ball with a spoon and put ball straight into the boiling water. Balls ae cooked when they float to the top.

5. MeatBalls are now ready to eat.