Chinese Style White Rice With Nutritious Gravy: Mui Fan aka Lam Fan (蛋香什锦烩饭/淋饭/炆饭)

INTRODUCTION

This is a very easy and healthy one pot dish.. It is also a lazy dish and in fact, in Chinese records, it was also meant for a dish of “lazy people”. Well, I am not saying those who

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Hong Kong Famous Polo Buns (香港驰名菠萝油)

INTRODUCTION

I loved polo buns.. I started to like polo buns surprisingly is not in Hong Kong but the cha chang ting (茶餐厅) –  a type of Hong Kong fast food type of outlet when I was stationed in

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Fatless Avocado Cranberries Muffins (无油鳄梨蔓梅马芬)

INTRODUCTION

It is an accidental design of this recipe. It is out of my curiosity that I designed this recipe.. The Chinese name of avocado is 牛油果 or literally translated as “butter fruit” and that prompted me to experiment if

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Chinese Rice Noodle Roll aka Chee Cheong Fun (猪肠粉)

INTRODUCTION

It has been a long time that I wanted to blog this favourite dish of Cantonese but I can’t find a suitable tray to prepare this as my steamer are not big enough. In fact, steamer is always a

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Sichuan Garlic Paste Pork Belly (蒜泥白肉)

INTRODUCTION

To me, this is a very common restaurant dish that I ordered.. Mostly in China or Hong Kong and it is especially popular in Szechuan or Sichuan restaurants.  Therefore, I have my fair share of exposure to this dish.

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Chinese Classic Hot And Sour Soup (酸辣汤)

INTRODUCTION

It was a very busy day yesterday.. I went out to fetch the kids three times and I have prepared 3 new recipes concurrently.. By the time I prepared the third or this recipe, it was about 6:30 pm

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Chinese Style Braised Pork Knuckles (中式焖蹄膀)

Updated post on 10-4-2016

Usually with extra gravy available, I will use it to braised mei cai or mui choy like what my mum did. Please scroll down for simple instructions.

INTRODUCTION

I have a few pig trotters recipe as

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Chinese Peanut and Sesame Pancake (花生和芝麻烧饼)

INTRODUCTION

A Teochew granny in Singapore knew that I love to taste authentic Teochew kuih and she took the pain to  arrange her relatives from Shantou, China to bring me this unsightly kuih all the way from China. By the

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Borneo Sour Brinjal aka Terung Dayak or Terong Assam

INTRODUCTION

I shared with a Facebook Group in Sarawak in the following manner and that spelt out how I felt issuing this post. It attracted quite a number of likes and comments in the post. From what is being discussed,

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One Pot Vegetable and Nuts Dish (养生蔬菜坚果饭)

INTRODUCTION

My wife always prepared this in her office. She only have one small basic rice cooker in the office and she and her colleagues like to prepare this for lunch. As her colleagues are vegetarian, so she  prepared vegetarian

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