When I was young, one of my favourite breakfast is this fried glutinous rice. I decided to make some for today and tried to find my recipe last night but I could not find it this blog. Sadly it must heave been lost with my old blog. So today I decided to blog this and … Continue reading Stir-fried Glutinous Rice (生炒糯米飯)
I have been hankering to eat crab fried rice for awhile. A friend had cooked it twice and each time I saw hers, I was absolutely dribbling. To cook this in the UK is not that easy, more so for me as I have to gather the ingredients and plan like a military execution. I … Continue reading House Special Devon crabs fried rice
I finally found a very good looking bittergourd with no blemishes. Was so difficult to find good ones nowadays and the shops are very clever or sneaky, depending on how you look at it. They will pair a not so good one with a good one and sometimes they turn the rotten bits to the … Continue reading Bittergourd – Lap lap bittergourd (Signatory mine)
When I was doing my shopping at the Chinese supermarket, the butchery section had a huge stack of piggy trotters and I was tempted. Luckily I stopped myself from buying more than 1 packet. It has 3 trotters inside. We Chinese do not like the number 4 you know. I was thinking hard of what … Continue reading Pig Trotters with fermented red bean (腐乳)
Being able to make my own bao is a bonus. It means I can stick some into the freezer and can have bao on tap, so to speak. Today I made some duck bao. I have a deep love for duck cook any which way EXCEPT soup. I cooked the fillings a day before I … Continue reading Duck Bao, Petai Curry Ayam Bao and Sambal Bao
If you happened to live in the UK you have to plan your cook. The other day when it was so sunny I fried the salt fish (kiam hue, in Hokkien) I brought back all the way from Kuching. I do this in my garden which I have a cooking stove set up. This is … Continue reading Salt fish toufo (Kiam Hue Bean Curd)
Twice or trice a year when I need to go into London I always order this dish but each time I am disappointed with the 3 to 5 mini oysters in it. Hence once in a while I will cook my own with a full bowl of oysters. My husband however does not like to … Continue reading Fried Oyster Omelette (Orh Jian 蚵仔煎)
Salted fish fried rice is one of them comfort food dish that if you had grew up eating you will love it. For most it is an acquired taste but my husband loves it from first bite. However one cannot judge whether any typical Englishman or westerner would like salt fish by my husband’s taste … Continue reading Kiam Hue Kay Char Pu’ng – Salted fish chicken fried rice
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
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)
