This is my version of malay chicken curry. I like the curry quite saucy.Ingredient:For the rempah (spice paste)150 - 160 g shallots3 - 4 cloves of garlic6 - 7 candlenuts12 - 20 dried chillies, about 15 - 20g1 small piece of fresh turmeric about 20g (or 1 heap tsp of turmeric powder)1 thumb size piece of ginger about 25g1 tbsp belacan or shrimp pasteOther ingredients5 - 6 tbsp cooking oil3 stalks
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Chinese five spice doughnut
Chinese: 鹹煎餅 (Hum Jin Bien)This Cantonese fried bread is one of my favourite chinese bread. This doughnut is a pinwheel bread spread with a salty spicy mix. It's is spicy, salty and chewy.This recipe make about 13 - 14 piecesIngredients:For the dough400g white bread flour1 tsp of easy blend yeast300 - 315 ml of water1 tsp of salt3 tbsp of sugarFor the spicy spread2 squares of red fermented tofu
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Steamed chicken with chinese dried vegetables
This steamed chicken is one of my favourites since I was a kid. Not sure what this is called in chinese but I do know this is cantonese style and recipe of my mum. Various dried chinese vegetables are used such as shitake mushrooms, cloud ears, lily buds and red dates. All these dried vegetables are available from any chinese supermarket.Recipe (enough for 3-4)Ingredients:500g chicken (thigh or
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Chicken with sweet yellow bean paste
I love black bean sauce and chilli bean sauce. Not had a recipe for yellow bean sauce on the blog yet. There are quite a few yellow bean sauces in various chinese names as 麵豉醬/豆瓣醬/黃醬and there is also a sweet bean sauce 甜麵醬. Sweet bean sauce is made with fermented soya beans and wheat flour, it is the main ingredient for hoisin sauce, some brand of sweet bean sauce is called hoisin sauce like the
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Stir fry shredded potato
Chinese: 炒土豆絲 (chow tu dou se)
Potato is such a versatile vegetable; boiled, fried, sauted, roasted, deep fried and mashed. But stir fried? This is what attracted me to try this recipe, popular in Northern China like Beijing and Shanghai. Northern Chinese has a lovely name for potato called 'tu dou' or translated as bean of the earth.
Stir fried potato is a very simple poor man's recipe.
Kuih Sarang Semut (Honeycomb Cake)
This is a Malay caramel cake very popular in Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei. Commonly called honeycomb cake. In Malay it is called Kuih Sarang Semut translated as ant's nest cake. The cake is full of tunnels or holes and is quite chewy.This cake is quite simple to make once you got the syrup sorted. The ingredients and baking method are quite different to a typical western cake. Burnt sugar
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Fish fragrant pork
Fish fragrant style cooking is probably my favourite at the moment. I am addicted to chilli bean sauce :).. Dead easy recipe and delicious.For the recipe (enough for 3)Ingredients:300g lean pork150g bamboo shoothandful of soaked woodear or tree fungus or black fungus 木耳(about 3 - 4 whole dried pieces or small handful of ready chopped dried)2 - 3 cloves garlic1 - 2 tbsp chopped ginger2 tbsp
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