Before and after

Don't know why, I suddenly wanted to cook something really hearty and English (maybe it is the cold winter). So my cravings led me to making a simple shepherds pie dish which was yummy, hehe! Look at the pictures - now you see it...... now you don't!

Ultimate Meat Balls

These are the meatballs that Tyler Florence made when I was watching the food network online. It looked so good that i just had to try it out. I must say it tastes absolutely fabulous! =)

creamed corn and extras

As you can see from the title, the reason I made this dinner was because of the delicious american dish - creamed corn. I always wanted to make it myself so I could have a taste of how it would be like. So I had to come up with a main dish that would go along with this side dish. After a long walk in the supermarket, I finally decided to make a mushroom chicken dish with some extra vegetables.

mushroom chicken with vege
baby carrots
Creamed corn !!

I actually felt extremely full after having this dinner, maybe I over-estimated the amount of food needed, but I guess when it comes to food, having more is always better then having less. =)

roti goreng (uk version)

This dish was inspired by the once famous roti goreng back in malaysia. The reason I thought of cooking it is because we have no more rice at home! =P So you could say i was "forced" to cook this. We had some tortilla leftovers from the previous dinner, so I thought maybe I could cut it into thin stripes and cook it like noodles. It turned out alright, although I was hoping for something closer to the delicious roti goreng I had in mind, hehe!

Char Siu Chow Fan

This time I wanted to fry some rice with really good ingredients, such as lap cheung, long beans, carrots, prawns, eggs and even the oil used had to be "chu yao zha" just to make it a little tastier. I did thought of adding char siu as one of the ingredients, but decided not to because it seemed a bit of a waste since char siu should be able to stand out as an extra side dish.

I looked up some good char siu recipes and found that the sauce for making char siu isn't really hard to make (at least for the home-made version anyway). However, it is the cooking that requires lots of patience. Cooking char siu requires a good control on the temperature and timing with regular basting of the char siu while it is roasting in the oven. If you do it correctly, you will have a beautiful piece of meat charred on the outside, tender and moist inside.

After an interesting first attempt, I didn't make the perfect char siu, but given it was the first time I am doing a home-made char siu, I am satisfied! =)


Fried Rice (tong how style =P)

Char Siu (A202 style)

面粉糕 (mian fen gao)

This time I tried making "mian fen gao"(flat noodles) , it required alot of work since I had to make the noodles from scratch, but the end result was satisfying (since it was my first try on the dish). Let’s just have a brief through the ingredients:

- Prepare really good soup for the noodles (at least 2-3 hours of cooking).
- Make noodles out of flour, water, pinch of salt, egg yolk(optional), and other herbs or spices for flavoring(optional).
- Cook two types of pork: minced pork cooked with garlic and ginger and thinly sliced pork covered with egg white.
- Fish cake
- Fresh green vegetable.

Once everything is cooked, place them all into one bowl, pour in the piping hot soup and enjoy your meal!

We have this on video too, enjoy!

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Nasi lemak

Yes, after being deprived of Nasi lemak for sometime, it is about time I decided to make my own version of the popular Malaysian dish that everyone loves. It is not the authentic replicate of the Nasi lemak, but enough to satisfy myself and some friends who came over for the meal.

As you can see we had quite a bit of food. The reason being we had two versions of sambal and two curries to choose from (actually it is one curry and one rendang). We even asked a friend to "tarik" some english tea to go with the whole Nasi Lemak theme... =)

long beans
fried anchovies
chicken curry
teh tarik
roasted nuts
chicken wings rendang
sambal 1
sambal 2 (my version)
eggs & cucumber

Keuy teow in the making

Me and my flat mates were just thinking of having kuey teow for dinner, but little did we know we would end up making a short video about it and posting it on You Tube, haha!

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My birthday

This was what I had for my birthday, its a late post I know (since my birthday was on the 4th). But better late then never... hehe! All of the food was yummilicious (yummy+delicious), all of which I had no part in cooking! =P

(picture on the right: three guys and a birthday cake)

yummy chicken
chicken paws (slurp!)
dao miu (豆苗)
fish green curry (by an authentic Thai chef!)
delicious dong fun (冬粉)

New years dinner!

Nothing special, just dinner with a few friends.

The theme for the meal was "Bak Kut Teh" haha! So I prepared the BKT with some side dishes (bean sprouts, green vegetable, yao tiu, fried fu chuk and the best compliment to BKT - oil rice) My flat mate also prepared Ma Po Taufu. So as you can see, we had quite a feast.=)

fu chuk & yao tiu bean sprouts again...
green vegetable minus the eggs

ma po taufu
the main dish - BAK KUT TEH! =P