Other than Itek Sio, this is another famous Nyonya duck recipe which is a broth with duck pieces, pickled mustard green, souring ingredients including tomatoes and fresh chilli added at the end of cooking to give the heat. A very nice soup, hot and sour with pieces of slightly salty mustard, fantastic for this very cold and damp winter weather.Ingredients:1 kg of duck, legs or half a duck, cut
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Tofu and mince with black bean sauce
This is very similar to Mapo tofu but with a Cantonese flavour and there is no chilli bean sauce for this recipe. I think it is as nice as Mapo. Don't use black bean sauce in a jar for this recipe, it's not right.Ingredients:about 400g of chinese tofu, cut into small squares100g of minced pork*1 tbsp of fermented black beans (more if you like it a bit salty), roughly chopped1 large red chilli,
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HAPPY NEW YEAR
It's been sometime since I last posted. I will be back soon once I got most of my deadlines out of the way.Anyway tomorrow the 26th Jan is Chinese New Year, the year of the Ox.HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL CHINESE AND ANYONE WHO CELEBRATES.GONG XI FA CAI (GONG HEE FATT CHOI) 恭喜發財!XIN NIAN KUAI LE 新年快樂!By the way 'Gong Hee Fatt Choi' does not mean happy new year it means 'wishing you prosperity and
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