Wai San Soup

Serve 5-6

Ingredients
10 pieces of dried wai san
1 big handful of hoi jook/yook jok
1 tbsp wolfberries
8 numbers of red dates
300gm of pig's tail bone
Pot of water

Method
1. Heat up the water and add in all the ingredients when it boils. Cook in medium heat for 1 hour and turn to low heat for the next two hours.

Note: Buy Hoi Jook instead of Yook Jook cause it is 'sweeter'.

Steamed Pork Ribs With Fermented Soya Beans & Black Beans

Ingredients

2 medium/large pork ribs, chopped into smaller pieces
2 cloves garlic, chopped finely
3 tsp cornflour
2.5 tbsp fermented soya beans,(min si) chopped finely
1.5 tbsp fermented black beans (dao si), chopped finely
2 or 3 tbsp cooking oil
1 tsp white vinegar


Method
1. Heat up cooking oil in a sauce pan. Stir fry garlic together with fermented black beans and soya beans until fragrant. Pour onto the chopped pork rib and mix well.
2. Add in vinegar and followed by cornflour. Mix well,
3. Steam for about 20 minutes or till cook.

1. Tell pork seller to choose pork ribs with meat cause you want to steam. (jeng jue yook)
2. Different fermented soya beans is different in saltiness. Try it before you stir fry it. If it is not 'tasty' or salty enough, add another 1 tsp or more.
3. You may add chopped chilli padi to the dish and it tastes really good too unless children are eating too.

Spicy Cabbage With Chilli Padi

Ingredients

Half of a large cabbage. I prefer the Cameron Highland ones,cut.
5-8 chilli padi
2-3 tbsp soya sauce
3 cloves garlic, chopped finely
3 shallots, chopped
3 tbsp cooking oil

Method
1. Add in garlic and shallots into the hot wok with cooking oil. Stir fry till fragrant 2. Add in cabbage and stir fry. Splash about 1 or 2 tbsp of water at the side of the wok and keep on repeating it for a few times.
3. Add in soya sauce and stir fry till cabbage is soft. Dish and serve.

Potato With Pork

Ingredients
3 no of potatoes, sliced thinly
50-100gm pork meat, sliced thinly, marinate with soya sauce, dashes pf pepper, and cornflour
1 cup water
2-3 cloves of garlic, chopped
1-2 tbsp oyster sauce
1 tbsp dark soya sauce
1/2 - 1 tbsp cornflour, mix in about 2tbsp of water

Method
1.Pan fry potatoes in a hot wok. When it is cooked, dish into a plate without the oil.
2. Heat up about 2 tbsp cooking oil and add in garlic and fry till fragrant.
3. Add in pork meat and fry till almost cooked. Add in potatoes, and oyster and dark soya sauce.Add in water.
4. Add in cornflour mixture to the wok.
5. Stir fry for a while or till the sauce thickens. Dish and Serve.

Fish Paste With Egg Patties

Ingredients
300g fish paste
4-5 eggs
1 stalk of spring onion, finely chopped (optional)
1.5tbsp soya sauce
1 small piece of mui heong salted fish (optional)
Dashes of pepper
4 tbsp of cooking oil

Method
1. Mix fish paste with all the ingredients except cooking oil. Mash the fish paste and salted fish.
2. Heat up wok with oil.
3. Pour some fish paste mixture into the wok (depends on how big your wok is). You can separate into two or three sessions.
4. Pan fry on slow or medium heat.
5. Turn the mixture over and keep on pan frying till the fish paste is cooked.
6. Serve hot with best with Kg Koh Chilli Sauce.