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.

Hock Chiew Dishes in Setiawan

~Kong Po Crab - This is really yummy~

~Pork With Ja Choi~

~Sweet And Sour Fish - I like this dish too~

~Fried Egg With Oyster - My Fav~

~Stir Fry Mixed Vege~

~Soup With Tofu, Egg, Vege - I like this too!~

Seafood Restaurant 23

Steamed Soon Hock Fish


Scallop With XO Sauce


Scallop With Garlic


Fried Noodle


Lamb Rib


Lobster Sashimi and Cooked In Soup


Fresh Oyster


Bamboo Clams


Baked Oyster With Cheese

Steamed Pork With Salted Fish

Ingredients
1 piece of medium size tofu, cut into 6 or 8 pieces
Half chinese waxed sausage, cut into thin slices
2 thin slices of salted fish, cut into small cubes
Around 50gm pork, thinly sliced
3 tbsp cooking oil
2 or 3 cloves garlic, chopped into small size

Marinade
2 tbsp light soya sauce
A few dashes of pepper
1 tbsp cornflour

Seasoning
More or less 1.5 tbsp assam jawa juice/sour plum juice(for cooking)
1 tbsp fah tiew wine
1 tbsp light soya sauce
2-3 tbsp cornflour

Method
1. Marinate the pork for about 10 minutes.
2. Fry garlic with salted fish till lightly brown.
3. Mix pork, tofu, waxed chinese sausage and fried garlic with salted fish (together with the cooked oil) in a plate. (Don't mix the tofu roughly or else it will break into pieces)
4. Add in seasoning and mix well.
5. Steamed for about 15-20 minutes or until cooked.
6. Dish and serve.

Note: Before steaming, try the sauce for the taste.Of course you spit out the sauce after trying. :)

Lemon Chicken (Western)

Ingredients

1 chicken breast, cut into half

More or less 10gm of butter

Some dashes of salt and pepper

About 1/3 of lemon juice

Methods

1. Rub in salt and pepper onto the chicken breast.

2. Add butter in a saucepan till it melts.

3. Fry chicken breast in medium heat till cook. Flip over to other side and vice versa when frying.

4. Add in lemon juice and cook for another minute.

5. Place chicken breast and sauce onto a plate.

Note: You can slice the chicken surface so it will be cooked faster. Don't cook too long if not chicken will not be tender.

 

Claypot/Rice Cooker Chicken

Serve 3 adults and two young children

Ingredients

Half a chicken, cut into small pieces

1 no Lap Cheong/chinese sausage, thinly cut

5 no mushroom,thinly cut

2.5 cups of white rice, cook with water

Seasoning

2 tbsp light soya sauce

2 tbsp oyster sauce

1 tbsp dark soya sauce

1 tsp or more of sesame oil

1 tsp or more of cooked oil

Dash of pepper

Method

1. Season chicken and mushroom with seasoning for at least half an hour.

2. Cook rice in the rice cooker for around 20-30 minutes till you see tiny 'holes' on the rice. When it is almost cooked, placed the seasoned chicken and mushroom and chinese sausage on top of rice.

3. Cook rice and chicken for another half an hour or till cooked. Serve hot with cut chilli in soya sauce.

Notes: You may use a claypot with this recipe and same method.

Remember to add less water than you normally would when cooking the rice. If not, the chicken will become too soggy.

Adjust the seasoning as I do not know how much rice you want to cook.

 

 

Oreo's Cupcakes

Oreo's Cupcakes

Ingredients

Make 12 medium/large cupcakes

117gm self raising flour, sieved

50gm oreo biscuits - break it into small pieces

115gm salted butter

90gm fine sugar

2 eggs

1/8 tsp salt

Methods

1. Beat butter, salt and sugar till slightly creamy with a mixer for around 10 minutes.

2. Add in egg one at a time, and then fold in flour. Use a spatula when mixing in the flour till it combines.

3. Stir in chopped oreo biscuits and spoon the batter into paper cups.

3. Bake 160-170 F for about 20-25 minutes or till cooked. Check the cake with a cake tester if you are unsure if it is already cooked. Remove tray from oven and left the cupcakes to cool. (Do not leave it under fan as cupcakes might sink)

Purple Buttermilk Icing

Ingredients

120g butter

1/8 tsp salt

70gm icing sugar, sieved

1 tsp of buttermilk essence

1 drop of blue and red food color EACH.

Methods

1 Cream butter, salt and sugar till smoothly, preferably with a mixer at speed No. 2 for around 5-10 minutes, depending on the consistency.

2. Add in food coloring and essence and pipe into the cupcakes.

3. Use your creativity to decorate the cupcakes.

Note: If not satisfied with the food colors, you can add another drop. But start with 1 drop first.

 

Bitter Gourd Chicken

Ingredients

Half of big bitter gourd/1 whole medium bitter gourd, cut into small pieces

3 cloves of garlic, minced

1 btsp fermented soya beans, minced

1 tsp fermented black beans, minced

some small slices of carrots (optional)

light soya sauce/sugar (optional. depends on the taste)

1 whole chicken, cut into small pieces

4 tbsp of cooking oil

1/2 cup of water

Method

1. Heat up oil in a wok. Add in garlic to stir fry till fragrant. Add in fermented black beans and soya beans. Stir fry for a while

2. Add in bittergourd and carrots. Stir fry for a short while.

3. Add in chicken and stir fry till fragrant and almost cooked.

4. Add in water and cover with lid to simmer.

5. Once the sauce thickens or when chicken is cooked, try the sauce. If it is not salty, add in about 1 tbsp or less of light soy sauce. If it is too salty, add about 1/3 tsp of sugar.

6. Dish and serve hot.

Tips: How to choose bittergourd. If you do not like eating bitter ones like me, choose light color ones and wide between those lines on the skin. If the lines are very near to each other, then it is bitter.