My family loves yellow bean sauce and recently I am able to get the brand that my mother has been using since I was a child. I only remember her using this brand and Yeo’s brand and not any other. She also always used the whole beans and she insisted that it is not actually … Continue reading Cod cheeks in yellow beans sauce
When I was a lot younger, decades ago during the durian season in Kuching, mother will have rest days. We, 5 siblings and parents will be eating durians a few days a week. In the evening my father would drive us to the central market, I forgot the name of this market. There lorries loaded … Continue reading Durian Ice Cream – Musang King
Nowadays I only blog dishes that I love to eat. My daughter has also taken an interest in cooking simple food recently. Praise the Lord! I think of ideas and simplified them but yet hope to maintain ‘tasty’ so she can try and make it her own one day. She loves seafood and prawns above … Continue reading Prawns paste fried toufo puffs
I do love a good bowl of prawn noodles. Especially when the weather is 7˚C outside. Inside my house though the heating has not even come on as I live in a new build eco-friendly house. After a bowl of my extra spicy Hae Mee noodles, I do not feel any cold at all. Peeling … Continue reading Prawn Noodles (虾面/Hae Mee) With Pork Ribs
I wanted to have bitter melon egg drop soup for a while now and today I have the opportunity to do so. I bought a bitter gourd for £3.80 last week when I was doing groceries shopping from the Asian supermarket. Yesterday I noticed that I have to eat it today for if not it … Continue reading Simple Bitter melon (gourd) egg drop soup ( 苦瓜蛋花汤 )
Today is Thursday, the day hubby has to pop into his office. I like to cook him a surprise lunch every Thursday. I sent him to work this morning after giving him eggy bread and started to make my asam curry paste. I planned to finished cooking and showered by the time he comes back … Continue reading Asam Curry Fish (Asam hue) 亚叁咖哩鱼
Last week I bought a packet of yam, yes frozen as I have been bitten many a times before buying fresh yam and when peeled only to find half was bad aka shades of brownish, which I dare not eat. These frozen ones are quite good and most times very floury denoting good yam taste. … Continue reading Fragrant Yam Rice, Taro Rice (芋头饭)
Recently it has been much easier for me to lay my hands on ‘fresh’ lotus roots. The other day when I was at the shop, I saw this fresh stick of lotus root winking at me. So, I bought it for the princely sum of £8 plus! Sacrilege! However, lotus root is good for us … Continue reading Braised pork ribs with lotus roots and nam yue (fermented red beancurd)
Have you ever tried fried lotus roots AFTER you have boiled them in your soup? It is extremely easy, and I really love it! I remember the time when I was young if there were any going, I would be onto them like I have not eaten in days. My poor siblings never stood a … Continue reading Fried lotus roots
There is always that one special dish that reminds you of your childhood and this is one of mine. I was so tempted to add additional ingredients to it but then decided I want it to be true to THAT nostalgic taste of my youth. So today we have this simple stir-fry Mi-Hoon, Bi-Hoon or … Continue reading Stewed Pork Bi-Hoon stir-fry (rice vermicelli)
