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.

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!

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!