Bak Kut Teh

Hi Everyone,
Today, I am going to teach you how to make the BAK KUT TEHHHHHHH

Bak Kut Teh is a dish from MALAYSIA..
It was the main dish for the Chinese rubber trees workers who had to stay in the forest during the night for their living..
As it was cold in the night, they need something to keep their body warm and energy to work.
They invented this awesome and food with the ingredients that they could find in the forest- Pigs and some ingredients from house- Chinese Herbs
And the mixture of both = Bak Kut Teh which means "meat- bone tea" from the Hokkien dialect
Then, its popularity has spread among the peninsula..
I have been craving for Bak Kut Teh for a long while..
But due to the big portions of meat that I might face for the next few days after I made it, I always cancel my mind on making it..
Finally, there is someone who is willing to share the portion with me.
Just follow the steps and you will make a good Bak Kut Teh like me =P

Ingredient:
IA
1 packet of A1 Bak Kut Teh (In a normal packet, there are 2)
2 lbs of pork ribs chunks
1 pork fumer bone (aka big pork bone)
3 clovers of garlics
1tbsp of dark soy sauce
2tbsp of light soy sauce
1tbsp of abalone sauce
600ml of water

IB
1 packet of Soy Puff (Aka Tofu Pok)
1 packet of mushroom

Steps:
1. Put IA into the cooking pot when the water is boiled and boil it with medium low heat for 1.5 hours or more.
2. Remove the oil from the soup when it is ready and boil the amount of IB that you desire.
3.  Serve with rice. =D

Happy Cooking!
Good Luck!!

Tip:
Serve with cabbage too if you want.

Note: 
1. I am using pressure cooker to cook it that's why it taste better??o.o
2. I always remove the "dirt" water when the porks are first boiled in the pot for 5 mins before I put the seasoning sauce.

Microwave Scrambled Egg

Hi everyone!
Today I am going to teach you how to make a easy dish via microwave.
I guess lots of my friends had watched it..
But, anyway.. just wana share my ever first cooking video..
Well, I participated a video cooking contest that held by my school..
I am glad that I won the category prize=) 
Thanks so much for the support =D

Here is the video that I made. 



PS: I don't know why the quality of the video turns bad when I uploaded to YouTube. Please let me know if you know why. Appreciate it. =)

Sweet and Sour Pork 咕噜肉

Hi everyone,
Today I am going to teach you how to make Sweet and Sour Pork..
I remember my bro love it so much and it is always the must-order-dish when my family have dinner in the restaurant..
Well, I guess everyone loves it..haha..
We do have a lot in US but so far those aren't authentic..=(
I made it last week for my friend's Birthday since she has been craving for so long..=)



Ingredients:
200g pork
4tbs oil
2tbs tapioca flour 


IB
1/2 size of green pepper
1/4 size of yellow onions
2 cloves of garlic
1/2 size of tomatoes


Marinating Sauce
1/2 tbs of light soy sauce 
1 tbs of abalone/ oyster Sauce 
1/2 tbs of sugar 
1/2 tbs of Sesame Oil 
1/2 tbsp of Tsao Xing Wine  
1 tbsp of Water 
Some pepper and salt

Sweet & Sour Sauce
4 tsp tomato sauce
4 tsp water
1tsp of sugar
1/2 of white vinegar

Steps:
1. Marinate pork with the marinating sauce of at least 1 hour.
2. Mixed tapioca flour with the marinated pork.
3. Add oil into the pan and fried the pork until it's brown.
4. Remove the pork from the pan and put in on top of some paper towel to remove the excess oil.
5. Use the leftover oil from the pan to fried IB (fried onion first, then the other three ingredients) until fragment.
6. Add pork and Sweet & Sour Sauce into the pan.
7. Mixed well everything.
8. Serve with white rice=)

Tips:
1. I used to marinate the night before I sleep, so that the meat will taste better and I can cook it when I am back from school. There is like a theory which said that, the longer the time for marination, the better the meat taste. haha..=P
2. I love to marinate food in a sandwich bag because it is easy to mix up everything and store it into the fridge.
3. You can use any types of onion. I guess it doesn't matter?
4. You can also use any type of white vinegar. For me, I am using the sushi rice vinegar that I usually use for my sushi. 
5. You can deeply fried it to make it taste better.

I hope you enjoy my recipe!
Happy Cooking!

Stir Fried Purple Cauliflower

Hi everyone,

Sometimes I really enjoy visit the farmers market in my school because I can find the ingredient that I rarely saw in Giant..
For example, goat meat..I need that for curry mutton..
Anyway, today I am not going to  teach you how to cook curry mutton but a simple home dish 

Stir Fried Purple Cauliflower

I found this cute purple cauliflower in the farmers market
Isn't she is pretty?

Ingredients:
1/2 size of cauliflower (wash and cut it into small pieces thru the stem, dont forget to cut off the black dirts on the cauliflower)
1 medium size of tomatoes (wash and cut it into medium pieces)
2 cloves of garlic
1tbs oil
1/2tbs abalone sauce (optional)
4tbs water
some pepper

Steps:
1. Add oil in a pan with medium heat and fried garlic until fragment.
2. Add tomatoes and cauliflower and cook until both of them are soft.
3. Add water and abalone sauce, mixed well into the pan. 
4. Season with some pepper.   
5. Serve with noodles or rice.


Tips:
Always use medium or low heat if you are new in cooking just in case you might burn the dish.

Note: I added some canned sea asparagus in this dish and serve it with egg noodles.

YUM!

Stew Dried Black Fungus 焖木耳

When you are in overseas, you will tend to get extra hyper when you saw something that used to be so common when you are ay home...

For example, Milo! Indomie!山楂饼! Ping pong brand biscuit!鲳鱼!...-.-.. =D
You will also can get a bit hyper with those uncommon things/ unfavourite/ soso items  that you used to have when you are at home
For me, they are like Nescafe Coffee, AikCheong Coffee..and 黑木耳 (Black Wood Ear)
Without thinking too much I bought the Black Wood Ear from the Chinese Market..
I am not always a fans to this food..
Well, anyway, I got it and I don't want to waste it..
So, I called my mum how to cook it..I came with my own idea..
Here, I present you...Stew Dried Black Fungus/ Black Wood Ear

^^

Ingredients:
IA
50g Black Wood Ear (Soaked into hot water to soften, then cut the root out)
1 1/2 cup of Water
2 inchs of Ginger 

IB
50g minced pork
1/2 tsp of Tsao Xing Wine
4 drops of sesame oil
1 tsp of garlic powder or chopped garlic

Seasoning
1tbsp Dark Soy Sauce
1tbsp of Soy Sauce
1/2 tsp of Tsao Xing Wine
some pepper


Steps:
1. Mixed well IB and marinate it for 20-30 mins
2.In the cooking pot, add 1-2 tsp of oil, then add ginger till it fragment.
3. Add soften Black Wood Ear and  into the pot and cover up.
4. Add IB into the pot when it is ready, then add the seasoning. 
5. Stew the dish at low heat for more than 3 hours/ when it is super soft.
6. Serve!

Tips:
1.Used boiled water to soften the Black Wood Ear, but don't boiled it!
2. This dish will take a LONG time..so, cook it in a weekend =)
3. Be aware of the water in the pot! You can stew a dish without enough water in it or you will burn it. 
4. You can add Tofu Pok if you want. I am adding them in it here =D

Indeed after doing some research on it, I found out that it is actually good especially women because it helps to improve your skins condition, helps in blood circulation, helps in prevention iron deficiency anemia. However, this is not too suitable for pregnant women. =)

Good Luck! Happy Cooking!

Sambal Belacan tofu in Mapo style

If you follow me on instagram you will know that I cooked this today..haha
I bought a dozen of tofu from the Japanese groceries store since last month
The tofu taste like soy milk, and I am so not used to it...>.<
I know it is healthy and nice..some people will like it very much..like my bf..
But for me, I just feel like I am eating soy milk instead of tofu..=.=
Therefore, today,I decided to make it into Mapo Tofu..so that the spice of the chillies can cover some of the soy milk taste from the tofu..

The tofu that I am talking about. =) if you like it, you can get it from the Jap groceries store ^^

Note: I am not saying that the tofu is bad, it is extremely good instead! Isnt tofu should taste like soya since it was made by soya..so this is a good tofu! haha
Besides, I found out that spicy food do helps to keep warm in the cold day..=P
Ok, I guess I should stop my nonsense and get started with the cooking recipe..
Btw I am making it into a more malaysian style mapo tofu since I have some sambal belacan(Malaysian spicy sauce) in my fridge =)

^^

Ingredients:
1 box of soft/medium tofu 
some scallion 
1tbs of oil
1 tbs of sambal belacan 
100g of minced pork 
1/2 tbs of Soybean paste(豆瓣酱)
1/2 tsp of sugar (optional)
scallions (optional, chopped into 3 inches)
1 tsp of potato starch 
1 cup + 2tbs of water

Steps:
1. Cut the tofu into cube(1/2 inch X 1/2 inch) and boil it into hot water.
2. While waiting for the tofu to be cooked, you can heat another pan and add the oil into it.
3. Add sambal belacan and soybean paste into the pan.
4. Add the mixed pork into the pan.
5. The tofu should be cooked after boiled it for 5 minutes, then replace it into the pan.
6. Stir-fried the tofu and let it mixed well with the sauce on the pan.
7. Add 1 cup of water into the pan.
8. Mixed 2 tbs of water with the potato starch, then add it into the pan. (This step is to thicken the sauce)
9. Stir the tofu and add the sugar and scallion.
10. Serve it and enjoy your meal!

Tips:
a) If you want to have a thicker sauce, add more potato starch.
b) Don't be lazy to mixed the potato starch with water. If you are, you might get a bad result in thickening the sauce.
c) Decorate your dishes with chopped scallions (0.5 mm each), for me, I am using black sesame here =)
d) If you want to make into a vegan dishes, skipped the minced pork and get some belacan for vegan. At here I am doing so =)

I hope you enjoy my recipe. =)
Feel free to post your dishes under the comment if you cook it with my recipe =D

Happy cooking!

Oven Roasted Vege

Hi! today I am going to teach you how to make a lazy and healthy dish..
It is an easy dish for student who stay with themselves..
Also, I think it is a convenient dish as I could do my stuff while waiting for it to be served.

YumYum =D

Ingredients:
1 Corn
5-6 Medium size Portobello mushroom (sliced, don't forget to remove the stem)
7-8 Cherry tomatoes (sliced into half)
Some Butter 
3g Mozzarella cheese (or more if you love cheese)
Some Pepper

Tools:
A container that can use in owen with aluminium foil(optional) on top of it. 

Steps:
1. Spread the butter on the corn then placed it on the aluminium foil.
2. Placed the sliced cherry tomatoes and Portobello mushroom on the aluminium foil.
3. Sprinkle some pepper on the portobello and the cheese on top of the cherry tomatoes.
4. Preheat the owen to 350°F for 10minutes.
6. Then, place the container into the owen and bake for 30minutes.
7. Ready to serve. =)

I hope you enjoy my recipe. =D