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I absolutely love the days when my mom decided to cook fried bee hoon. Her fried bee hoon consists of only four ingredients (excluding the seasoning) – bee hoon (rice vermicelli), garlic, bean sprouts and the secret ingredient that makes it so good and delicious – Narcissus Brand Stewed Pork.
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Taiwanese Braised Pork with Rice [Lu Rou Fan / 滷肉饭]
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Lu Rou Fan, which means “Braised Meat Rice” literally, is an extremely popular and incredibly delicious Taiwanese specialty. Made with pork braised primarily in soy sauce and other aromatics, the mixture is spooned over a bowl of steaming hot rice and served with eggs and firm tofu. It is one of my favourite dishes – so good that…
Asian-Style Egg Noodles Stir Fry (with Prawns and Chicken)
I love, love, love noodles. Currently I have 8 kinds of noodles stocked at home – spaghetti, tagliatelle/fettuccine, rice noodles (hor fun), rice vermicelli (bee hoon), somen (thin Japanese noodle made of wheat flour), soba (Japanese buckwheat noodles), udon and egg noodles. This is not including the other pasta shapes that are sitting in the pantry! So… yup,…
Chinese Braised Mushrooms
I realised I have been taking Singapore local food for granted the moment we start living overseas. Singapore hawker food is cheap and easily accessible so there’s never a worry when I was living in Singapore. Here, though Asian food are not that difficult to find, it’s incredibly expensive and not as tasty. As such, my friends…
My Mom’s Quick Braised Tau Kwa (Extra Firm Tofu) with Minced Pork
I love eating tofu – be it silken or firm; deep-fried, braised or steamed; smelly or non-smelly! But finding tofu overseas (in non-Asian countries) can be really difficult. For the first few months when I’m here, I only saw tofu packed in paper boxes that don’t need to be refrigerated, which looks really weird. As it was also…
Kiam Peng (Salty/Savoury Rice in Rice Cooker)
If your family owns a rice cooker, then your mom may have made this one-pot throw-everything-in Kiam Peng before. Kiam Peng is a term in Hokkien, which literally translates to Salty Rice. It is made by combining uncooked rice, meat, vegetables and seasoning like soy sauce, sesame oil and oyster sauce in a rice cooker…
Mom’s Chinese Potato and Minced Pork Stew
I love potatoes, whether they are baked, fried, boiled, steamed, stewed or grilled – all are my favourite! This particular dish is one that my mom prepares often – it’s a very quick and easy potato stew with minced pork that can be made in less than 30 minutes. When I was younger, I would drizzle the salty and…
My Mom’s Soy Sauce Braised Pork Belly
One of the dishes that I crave most after moving here is my mom’s braised pork belly (aka tau yu bak). Her fuss-free and ridiculously simple recipe is made with only 5 ingredients! Braised for 2 to 2 1/2 hours on the stove, the fats are melt-in-the-mouth (my absolute favourite part), the meat is so tender and…
Oyakodon (Chicken and Egg Rice Bowl)
I am abandoning postponing all the other recipes that are queuing behind to be blogged because this oyakodon simply cannot wait. It’s just out-of-the-world delicious and the reason why I didn’t make it earlier is because I never have dashi stock on hand, which was a required ingredient. But I still don’t have access to dashi…
30-Minutes Braised Soy Sauce Chicken Wings
Three Cup Chicken is a popular Chinese dish that is made by braising chicken in 1 cup of rice wine, 1 cup of soy sauce and 1 cup of sesame oil. And that’s supposed to be the recipe I’m making and blogging today. So what happened?
Macanese Minchi
Have you been to Macau? I was there a few years ago and I love the place – especially the food (to be honest, food is always the main focus whenever I’m travelling, hah!) The egg tarts, Serradura, pork chop buns… mmm! Macanese cuisine consists a blend of Chinese and Portuguese cuisines, with the addition…
Tau Cheo Pork (Braised Pork in Salted Bean Paste)
Tau cheo (豆酱) is a fermented soy bean paste made from yellow soy beans. It is very salty, slightly smoky, and slightly yeasty – a flavour that regular salt cannot give. Because it is so salty, it is used sparingly or when used in large amounts, sugar will be added to balance out the saltiness….
Tofu-Pork Meatballs with Sticky Sauce
While browsing the photos of recipes I have yet to blogged, I saw this meatballs recipe and realised that it fulfills the Little Thumbs Up theme this month – soy (which includes tofu!) Tofu is a food that I really love – there’s silken tofu that is like a blank canvas, ready to go with…
Auntie Ruby’s Char Siew (Asian BBQ Pork) – the Easy Way
Char siew (aka cha siu, cha shao, char siu) is a type of BBQ pork dish in which long strips of boneless pork are marinated in a mixture of maltose, five spice powder, red fermented beancurd, dark soy sauce, hoisin sauce and lots of red food colouring. They are then skewered and grilled in a…
Korean Sweet Potato Noodles with Beef [Japchae]
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I originally wanted to blog about my Taiwan trip, but unfortunately Flickr is down, and since I’ve already uploaded photos for this noodle dish, I shall blog about it instead! Sweet potato noodles are, as its name suggests, made with sweet potato starch. It is different from the transparent cellophane noodles (冬粉) which are made…
Easy Meal Day – Braised Black Vinegar Chicken Drumsticks and an Award
While searching for a quick and easy lunch option, I chanced upon this recipe from Min’s Blog. Min blogs in Chinese and she features many simple and delicious meals, and this caught my eye as it uses one of my favourite seasoning – black vinegar. I’m extremely fond of vinegar (evidence here and here), so…
Zha Jiang Mien
Zha Jiang Mian / Za Jiang Mein Zha Jiang Mian / Za Jiang Mein (炸酱面) literally means fried (pork) sauce noodles – it is a popular Northern Chinese dish that consists of noodles topped with a minced meat sauce that is fried in bean paste. The sauce is similar to a bolognese sauce – except…