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This stir-fried beef dish is a n excellent weeknight supper option, particularly when juggling routine duties and chaotic situations. In addition to being delicious, this quick and simple stir-fried beef dish is also quite flexible and high in protein. You'll be able to eat well all week long with this amazing dish.  There are a few tips I would like to share on how to make a beef stir-fry that is so tender you won’t even believe it with a beautiful sticky glossy BBQ sauce. One question that comes up frequently is this one. How to stir-fry beef while keeping it nice and delicate. First is how to start off with a tender cut of beef?   Slice the beef against its grain, which shortens the fibers by cutting through them. As a result, the flesh is softer and simpler to chew. Ingredients for the sauce come in second. I know that the common sauces for stir-fried beef include oyster sauce, soy sauce, and Shaoxing wine. But I highly suggest adding BBQ sauce to this recipe. There is al

  These baked BBQ Shao Bao have a flaky and buttery crust that ’ s perfect for an afternoon treat. This delicious snack is referred to as Seremban Shao Bao( 芙蓉烧包 ) Seremban is a city about 45 – 60 minutes from Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia. When was the first time I ate Seremban shao bao （芙蓉烧包） ? How many years have passed since then? Well, that was two decades ago.   I travelled to Kuala Lumpur to visit a friend. We took a trip to Melaka. She made an intentionally stop at Seremban on our way back so I could try this well-known snack. It’s like a steamed bun or pao, it is pleated, but it's baked in an oven. Usually, green peas and BBQ pork made up the filling. In the early days, if you wanted to eat Seremban Shao Bao, you had to travel to Seremban, to buy it from the headquarters or its branches in Seremban.   It is now available to buy at authorized stalls all around the country. Perhaps they will be sold where I reside in the future.  However, I can now prepare my own

  With this delectable shrimp tomato soup made with scrumptious shrimp, squid, and fresh tomatoes, weeknight dinners just got easier! It's so easy to make, you could have dinner on the table in no time! As soon as the soup is served, the aroma of the fresh seafood is strong and fragrant, penetrating the soup very nicely. The refreshing and sweet tomatoes in the pot or wok make the soup thick, soft, and rich, which also serves to balance off the seafood's strong flavour. Any variety of tomatoes will do, but for the finest (and sweetest) flavour, use the ripest, reddest ones you can find. A good base ensures every soup starts well.   Since  I'll be making this soup with squid and shrimps. Thus, the shrimps stock made from the leftover heads of prawns is even more delicious!    The shrimpy taste is excellent. That will be added to the broth along with a ton of taste and shrimpiness. You are going to sauteing the shrimp head until all the residual water evaporates and then you

  Have you ever tasted the grilled chicken wings from the night food market? Can you picture the air filled with the aroma of grilled chicken wings? Who does not like finger licking good chicken wings? You may bake it or grill it using the same recipe. For today, set aside your thoughts about grilling. Instead, let's go for the easy method to bake it.  You may bake in an air fryer as well if you are making a small batch. I always bake in a big batch, so baking in an oven is my wise choice. These easy-to-make BBQ baked chicken wings are flavorful and soft. Marinating the chicken is an essential step in creating mouthwatering baked chicken wings.   The chicken was softer because of the marinating. It is a process that is done for 30 to 45 minutes before baking the meat, or preferably overnight. Through this process, the chicken will become moist and flavorful as it absorbs the marinade. I'm not marinating with store-bought barbecue sauce. Chinese cuisine marinades are what

  Have you ever tried this rice vinegar and cane sugar-pickled mixed ginger in a jar?   Let me share with you how to stew a whole chicken in these assorted pickles ginger. The taste is sweet and sour. It’s an appetizing dish. It contains buckwheat, red pepper, cucumber, red carrot, turnip, white melon, papaya, and ginger. This assortment of pickled gingers will take your cuisine to the next level, making it delicious and full of goodness.  I learned about this dish from my mother-in-law. In a way, this is one of the specialties of Kota Belud, the hometown of my husband. It only needs one pot to prepare. Simply combine the chicken with the pickled ginger in a pot, add enough water to cover, and boil until the chicken is cooked through. How simple was that? To give the chicken a lovely hue for putting on the table, the chicken must be lightly fried, which is one of the essential processes. Don't throw away the extra gravy. The soup has all the essence. The next day, you can use it

With just a little bit of extra work, white rice may very quickly become much more fascinating. How so? White rice is essentially just steamed white rice. But the grain is much more than that. For instance, Chinese sausage fried rice, garlic turmeric rice, chicken rice made with chicken fat, garlic and chicken broth, and the list goes on.   Spicing up white rice and transforming it into a more sophisticated and distinctive component of any meal can be done fast by adding various seasonings, experimenting with cooking liquids, and attempting other means of flavouring. Because of this, rice has become a perspective for me to understand Malaysian food and there are many different flavours of rice I discovered in Malaysia.  This nasi kerabu, or salted fish butterfly pea flower rice, is one of my favourites. “Nasi” refers to rice whereas “kerabu” refers to sweet and savoury raw vegetable salad. It originated from Kelantan in the 15th century. Due to the migration of Chinese traders, i

  Everyone is familiar with steamed egg.   This is a kind of delicacy that looks simple if you master the technique. Have you ever made egg bean curd or egg tofu with soybean milk. How different of this egg tofu with soybean milk compared with classic steamed egg? There are two differences for both recipes. Firstly, steamed egg using water; egg tofu is using soy milk. Secondly, steamed egg steamed for 3 minutes. Turn off the heat, let it sit in the steamer for 15 minutes; egg tofu steamed for 12 minutes. Of course, the two recipes are eaten differently. Chinese steamed eggs don’t need sophisticated seasoning to impress your palate. Simply add a little light soy sauce and sesame oil. Simply delicious! For the egg tofu, I am going to braise mushrooms and shrimps, serving on the top of the egg tofu.   The egg tofu smothered in a luscious soy oyster sauce with shrimps and mushrooms, had smooth thick sauce.   Ensuring that each bite is delicious and satisfying. In fact, homemade is

Tired of traditional mooncakes? Why not try this agar-agar jelly dragon fruit mooncake that has egg yolk in it? It is cold and pleasant. The cool part is that baking is not necessary.  Fruit season is currently in full swing, and prices are reasonably low as well. It now costs Rm9 per kg instead of Rm15 per kg. It's an excellent deal.   I started to think about alternative ways to consume its remarkable beauty and taste besides as a fruit. The Mid-Autumn Festival will take place in less than a month, so this jelly dragon fruit mooncake is ideal. The technique of making agar-agar mooncakes is simple, but the egg yolk that appears when I demold and slice the jelly mooncake always surprises me. I highly recommend mooncakes with egg yolks since they are more attractive.  These jelly mooncakes are made up of three components which are the egg yolk, the filling, and the skin layer.  Let us get all the ingredients to hand to make this refreshing dragon fruit jelly mooncakes.   I