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How To Steam Vegetables Fast and easy way to prepare your green vegetables in a simple yet healthy method. All you need is only three (3) basic ingredients. Ingredients: Organic siew pak choy - 1 packet Garlic - your desired quantity - chopped Light soy sauce Method: Wash, drain and cut siew pak choy into your desired size. Fried chopped garlic in a hot pan using cooking oil.  Fried until fragrance or turn golden brown.  Separate the fried garlic and oil. Put aside. Place / arrange siew pak choy onto a metal / stainless steel plate and combine with the fried garlic oil. Heat the wok with water underneath about 20 percent. When you see bubble means the wok is hot enough. Place the plate of siew pak choy onto the wok using a metal stand. Steam for 7 minutes. When the veggies is done, add fried garlic and light soy sauce - toss roughly just to let the sauce mix evenly. Delicious and juicy siew pak choy is ready to be s...

My Childhood Dish Steam Minced Tofu With Fish Paste This steam tofu dish reminded me of my childhood dish when I was in my primary school years. My mum would called this dish by the name "lou yao pin onn" (translated to chinese). Means everyone no matter young or old, toddler or senior folks, you will feel safe/secure to consume it as tofu dish is a very soft and smooth dish.  Easy to digest... Ingredients: chopped garlic chopped spring onion Ingredient (A): Fresh white tofu / square tofu - 1 large pc Fresh fish paste - either homemade or purchase at morning market - put your on desired amount sesame oil soy sauce a pinch of sea salt to taste a pinch of pepper to taste Method: Fried chopped garlic in a hot pan using cooking oil.  Fried until fragrance or turn golden brown. Put aside. Meanwhile transfer all Ingredients (A) into another big stainless steel plate. Mix and stir well until all ingredients are combined nicely. By using a meta...

Steam Fish in Black Bean Sauce Ingredients: One whole fish - 1 pc (any fish you prefer)  Ingredients (A): Sesame oil brown sugar - to taste Black bean sauce - 2 tbs Filtered water - 2 tbs  Garlic - chopped Ginger - chopped Parsley - a pinch Red chili or any fresh chili x 1 pc chopped Method: Wash the whole fish and drain with kitchen towel paper.  Transfer to a stainless steel big plate. Meanwhile, fried garlic in a hot pan using cooking oil.  Fried until fragrance or turn golden brown. Put aside. Place and mix all Ingredients (A) with a bowl.  You may add more water until your desired gravy thickness. Pour the black bean sauce mixture (up to you how much you wanna put) onto the fish. Then place ginger on top of the black bean sauce mixture. Steam for 10 minutes. Once done, garnish with fried garlic, chopped chili and chopped parsley onto the steam fish.  Fragrance and aromatic Steam Fish in...

Simple Yet Delicious Superior Spinach Soup  Ingredients:  600 gm Spinach 20 pcs Fresh fish ball - from market 1 piece of chicken breast sea salt to taste soy sauce pepper filtered water 1.5 litre Method: Wash chicken breast and put into a big pot. Fill the pot with 1.5 litre of water. Boil for at least 50 minutes. Meanwhile, trim and wash the spinach put aside. Put in fish ball after 50 minutes boiling the chicken soup to boil for another 10 minutes. Last add in spinach to boil for about 5 minutes. The simple and delicious heart warming superior spinach soup is ready to be served! Great with rice or on it's own on a cold rainy night. Happy Trying !

How To Stir Fry Lotus Root with Lean Meat Ingredients: Garlic - minced Carrot - sliced and cut stick Local Lotus root - for stir frying Lean meat - either pork or chicken Bean curb paste (nam yu) - 1 pc Brown sugar - a pinch Soy sauce to taste Shao Hsing Hua Tiao Cooking wine - 1 tbp Method: Heat up the pan with oil. Add in garlic and fried for 20 seconds. Before garlic turn brown, put in lean meat. Once lean meat nearly 70% cooked toss in lotus root and carrot. Turn on medium heat , add bean curb paste, brown sugar and soy sauce. Keep on stirring, let all flavors get in and lastly sprinkle some cooking wine to enhance the meat flavor. Viola, the stir fry lotus root lean meat with aromatic smell of hua tiao cooking wine is ready to be served. Happy Trying !

How To Stir Fry Mix Vegetable Ingredients: Garlic (small portion) - chopped  Tomato Cherry - cut half Bunashimeiji mushroom French Bean - cut small Chicken meatball - cut small Salted Cashew Nut - a pinch Soy sauce and sea salt to taste Method: In a frying pan, heat the pan with cooking oil. Put chopped garlic and fry until fragrance. Then add bunashimeiji, french bean and chicken meatball to stir fry for 5 minutes. Cook until ingredients become soft. Put soy sauce and sea salt to taste. When done put tomato cherry just to toss. Transfer mix vegetable onto a plate, decorate with cashew nut and arrange the tomato cherry. Hot and appetizing stir fry mix veggie is ready to be served!

How To Steam White Pomfret Fish Ingredients: White pomfret - small x 3 pcs Garlic - chopped Ginger - sliced Sesame oil soy sauce Method: Wash white pomfret and drain with kitchen towel paper.  Transfer to a stainless steel big plate. Meanwhile fried garlic in a hot pan using cooking oil.  Fried until fragrance or turn golden brown. Put aside. Place ginger and sesame oil on top of the fish to steam for 15 minutes. Once done, sprinkle fried garlic and flavour with some soy sauce onto the steam fish.  The steam white pomfret is ready to be served!

My Steam Pork Rib Ingredient (A) Soft / small pork rib 300g Ingredients (B) Corn flour Black bean sauce Sesame oil Soy sauce Sugar Garlic - minced Chili - cut small Other ingredients: Ginger - cut slice Shao Hsing Hua Tiao Chiew Method: Wash and cut rib into small pieces. (A) + (B) and mix well. Marinate for 1 or 2 hours. Then steam for 30 minutes. After it is done, sprinkle sliced ginger and Hua Tiao Chiew to served with rice! Done Tips for steam pork rib: 1. Blanching the pork ribs before steam helps to remove blood and strong pork smell. 2. If you do not prefer hot and spicy, then you may skip putting chili.

My Spring Onion Ginger Lala Ingredient (A) Fresh Lala from market 600gm Ingredients (B) Spring onion - cut short Ginger - cut slice Garlic - minced Ingredients (C) Shao Hsing Hua Tiao Chiew Sea salt to taste Soy sauce Method: Soak (A) with water and salt for 30 minutes. Remove and wash with clean water. In a big pot of hot boiling water, blanch (A) for 2 minutes or until all the lala open up. Remove and drain. In another clean pan, heat pan with oil. Add (B) to stir fry for 2 minutes. Then add (A) + (C) for another 3 minutes. Served hot. Enjoy and happy trying! Tip for cooking lala: Blanching the lala before cooking helps to open up the shell, remove dirt, sand and strong lala smell.

My Pork Rib Winter Melon Soup Served 4 Ingredients: Pork rib 500g Red dates 6 pcs Winter melon 1pc Chinese cabbage 1 small Water, 2 litre Ingredient (B) soy sauce, sea salt, pepper  Method: Wash rib and cut into small cube. Blanch the rib with boiling water, then wash and drain. In a large pot, bring water to boil, put rib to boil for 30 minutes. Then add winter melon to continue boil for 1.5 hours at medium heat. Cover the pot with lid but leave a small gap so that the water will not overflow. Add chinese cabbage for the last 10 minutes of timer. Add red dates for the last 15 minutes of timer. Lastly add (B) according to taste. Total boiling time is 2 hours. The soup is ready to be served. Tips for pork rib winter melon soup: 1. Blanching the pork ribs before cooking helps to remove blood and strong pork smell. 2. Only put red dates for last 15 minutes of cooking time, to prevent the soup turning sour.

My Black Pomfret In Sweet And Sour Gravy Ingredients (A): Black pomfret (size vary) - wash and wipe to dry Ingredients (B):  Tomato 2pcs Ginger - a bit to slice Garlic - slice Onion - cut slice Ingredient (C) - the gravy: Tomato sauce Sugar Vinegar Sea salt a pinch / to taste Method: Dip (A) into corn flour to cover up the whole pomfret. Mean while heat frying pan with oil until hot bubble appear. Deep fry the pomfret until crispy and golden brown. Remove the pomfret from the frying pan.  Place a kitchen towel paper to absorb oil from the fish. Put aside. In another clean cooking pan, heat pan with oil until hot, put Ingredients (B)  stir fry for 2 minutes or until garlic become fragrant. Add Ingredients (C) and mix well. Add filtered water depending on how thick you want the gravy. When gravy is done , put back the fried pomfret into the gravy to mix evenly. The sweet and sour black pomfret is done. Is that ...

My First Kimchi Soup Noodles Ingredients: dry ramen or any noodles pre buy kimchi in container chinese cabbage assorted fish ball goji berry / wolfberry Method: Cook ramen in a hot boiling water for 5 minutes. Drain and put aside. Soup: Add 600ml filtered water into a pot to boil until hot. Add kimchi, chinese cabbage and assorted fish ball and cook for 8 minutes.  Put goji / wolfberry to cook for 1 minute. Transfer cooked ramen together with the soup into a bowl. Served hot ! Remark : You may put any ingredients you like such as tomato, carrot or other fish cake. My yummy and appetizing kimchi soup noodles is finished in no time ... Have a nice day ahead !

My Stew Carrot  Potato  Chicken Ingredients: Kampung Chicken - cut small Chat Potato  Australia Carrot Ingredient B: Soy sauce, black soy sauce, brown sugar, oyster sauce, sesame oil - to taste Method: Heat sesame oil in a pot over medium heat. Add the cut kampung chicken and saute for a few minutes until the chicken turn white.  Add carrot, potato and fill clean water until covered up the ingredients. Stew for 20 minutes until ingredients become soft. In the middle, add ingredients B to taste ...until all done. Yummy yet appetizing kampung chicken gravy in one pot dish is served. Enjoy your meal!

My First Cheese Baked Broccoli Rice Ingredients: Cooked rice Broccoli - cut small Fish Filament Stick Cheese Taufu Cheddar Cheese Parmesan Grated Cheese Method: Blanched broccoli, filament stick and cheese taufu in a pot of hot boiling water for 6 minutes. Drain and put aside. Prepared an oven safe ceramic bowl. Put cooked rice into the bowl. Add broccoli, filament stick and cheese taufu onto the rice. Put cheddar cheese on top of the ingredient follow by grated parmesan cheese. Slot in the bowl into a preheated oven for 15 minutes at 180 celsius just to let the cheese melted. Viola ! Served hot and enjoy...

My First Simple Carbonara Spaghetti  Ingredients: Spaghetti Carbonara sauce (ready in can) Chicken wings Button mushroom (ready in can) - sliced black pepper Method: Cook spaghetti in a pot of hot boiling water for 8 minutes or until soft. Drain and put aside. Before cook, wash the chicken wing and drain. Rub the chicken wing with some sea salt to marinate for 20 minutes. Place the chicken wing onto a stainless steel plate. Steam the chicken wing using a wok with water underneath for 20 minutes. While waiting for the chicken wing, prepare the carbonara sauce. Heat pan, then pour the can sauce into the pan cook for at least 5 minutes then put sliced button mushroom to continue cooking for another 5 minutes. Once the sauce become hot, add spaghetti and toss for 30 seconds until even, then put the steam chicken wing as well and toss well. Sprinkle with black pepper and served immediately.  Happy Trying and have fun ! You ca...

My Stir Fry YuPo Noodles Does this plate of noodle looks like spaghetti? YES but it isn't. This is called Yu Po noodle. I bought the packet of noodle from Bandaraya Bersejarah Melaka. YuPo Noodles The texture of this noodle is similar like spaghetti just that the cooking time to boil the noodle is 5 minutes compare to spaghetti is at least 8-10 minutes. A bowl of delicious Noodles is served! Ingredients: Veggie - cut small Salmon ball - cut into sliced Pumpkin ball - cut into sliced Meatball Sesame oil, soy sauce, mushroom powder - dressing What a yummy noodles - bought from Melaka. MUST BUY when you visit Melaka. Very much recommended as this noodles not only silky soft after cooked, non sticky yet slightly firm to bite on. With YuPo noodles on hands, you can cook with different styles from soup noodles , stir fry , spaghetti to simmer... Where to buy this noodles? (San Shu Gong Jonker street Melaka ) Address: Jalan Merdeka, Mel...

My Multi-grain Fish Porridge with broccoli and carrot Ingredients: Multi-grain rice consist of brown rice, red rice - 2 cups Fresh fish meat (any fish which is less bone) Broccoli - cut into small size and blanched Carrot - cut into small cube Dry scallop Soy sauce, sea salt, sesame oil to flavour the porridge Sprinkle with a smash of pumpkin seed and black sesame Filtered water - 5 cups (1.25 litre) depending on the thickness of porridge you desire (served 4) I blanched the broccoli earlier and put aside. Cook the rice and fish together for 20 minutes - removed the fish and put aside. Before 5 minutes the porridge completely cooked, return fish and broccoli into porridge and stir well. Served hot sprinkle with pumpkin seed and black sesame as garnish. Enjoy your porridge slowly while it is still piping hot... Have a nice day!

My Ugly Looking Popiah in year 2014 Popiah (pȯh-piá) is a Fujianese/Chaoshan-style fresh spring roll common in South East Asia. A popiah "skin" (薄餅皮) is a soft, thin paper-like crepe or pancake made from wheat flour. Main Ingredients: Popiah skin shredded omelette filling of finely grated and steamed or stir-fried turnip thinly sliced fried tofu shredded cucumber Can eaten with a sweet sauce (often a bean sauce), a blended soy sauce or hoisin sauce or a shrimp paste sauce and optionally with hot chili sauce before it is filled. The filling is mainly finely grated and steamed or stir-fried turnip (known locally as mengkuang) Additional ingredients suggestion: bean sprouts, french beans, lettuce leaves, grated carrots, Chinese sausage slices, chopped peanuts or peanut powder, fried shallots,  The method of producing the wrapper involves making an extremely wet and viscous dough. My wrapper is not wet enough. It looks dry... Not easy...

Nutritional ABC Soup Why is it called ABC soup? When I was young, my mum used to boiled this soup for me and my brother for dinner together with other dishes. I asked my mum what is this soup called? She answer "It's ABC soup!" But why?  A - Contain Vitamin A - Carrot B - Contain Vitamin B - Potato C - Contain Vitamin C - Tomato My mum said this soup is super easy to prepare and nourishing and thus this unique ABC soup has been inherited from my mum generation until now...my daughter and son can enjoy it anytime they wish....yes anytime they wish! Ingredients: Tomato - cut into half Potato - cut into small cubes Carrot - cut into small cubes Onion - peeled and sliced thick Chicken pieces with bones 1 tsp crushed pepper corn sea salt to taste filtered water Method: Boiled for 2 hours You may add corn maize (not in the ingredients) for sweeter taste Not much ingredients left in my fridge as I never go to market. Stir fry v...

My Very Own Mix Salad DIY mix salad is fun and easy to prepare. Just add whatever you feel like eating and put your favorite items into it. As simple as ABC... Ingredients: Lettuce Onion Boiled egg Boiled potato Boiled baby carrot Japanese cucumber German black pepper sausage Dressing suggestion : Mild mayonnaise or Kewpie roasted sesame or apple cider vinegar. Enjoy your own salad version...!