Wednesday 17 June 2015

Traditional Chinese Steamed Pork-Patty with Salted Egg Yolk


It was totally a bad experience for all Sabahan (including me) for the past two weeks.  The first ever earthquake in Malaysia took place at the our most popular tourist spot, the Mount Kinabalu on the 5th of June at 6.0 magnitudes.  I was alone at home and was in the middle of preparing to go out when it happened.  I thought I was not well and collapsing and at that particular moment I felt like the house is going to turn upside down and I started to hear people screaming and strong running footsteps from my apartment. Without hesitation, I grabbed my handbag and ran out of my apartment too.  Once I was out of the eight storey building and managed to get hold of my husband on the mobile, whom also experienced the same tremor in his office and had confirmed it was an earthquake.

The aftershock had caused my health level went down tremendously, even until now was not fully recovered.  Same goes to my appetite has dropped too.  Suddenly this dish pop-up in my head - steamed pork-patty with salted egg yolk.  I remembered this was what my late mom always like to prepare for me when I am not well and it was suppose to go together with plain rice porridge.

I grown-up from a very conservative Chinese family and I have been always explored with traditional Chinese cooking.  Steaming pork patty is one of them.  It was always blended with either preserved vegetables, salted fish, etc., but the most I liked was when it matched with salted egg yolk.  The minced meat is preferably self-chopped, as then it will produce good tenderness on the patty.  This dish will perfectly go well with plain rice or rice porridge and is simple to prepare.  I promise you will love it very much like I do!



Monday 1 June 2015

Kung Pao Chicken


Hi everyone, I am back!  Time flies.... It has been exactly six months since my last post, that is, on the eve of the 2015.  Feel so bad for leaving this blog un-touch for so long. The first six months of 2015 indeed were an aggressive and adventurous for me in both my working career and personal life.

Now that everything has almost stabilized, is time for me to get back to the kitchen to try on some recipes out and share with all of you.  

Today, I am going to bring you a very popular Chinese dish - Kung Pao Chicken.  I believed this dish is not only popular in Asian countries, but has reached out to other parts of the globe too.  I remembered I had made this dish during the Chinese New Year and had shared out on my personal Facebook's Timeline, I was surprised by the over-whelming responses, even some are not local or non-Chinese.  So, for sure I knew this would be one of the looking forward recipe.

My original version of Kung Pao Chicken spiciness level is quite high and I am sure some of you will not able to take it.  No worries, I have my way to assist you in this area and make sure you it will not run away too far from the original taste and save you all the hassle to order a takeaway from the restaurants.