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How are your pork chops prepared? Grill, bake, or fry them? The sauce is crucial no matter how you prepare them. You may find honey garlic sauce, garlic lemon sauce, mushroom sauce, and more sauces for western recipes. Sweet and sour pork chops is the popular Chinese recipe with its sweet tangy sauce. I'll be serving my pork chop today with SAMBAL SWEET CHILLI LIME SAUCE. The sweet chilli paste is the major component of this dish. It has rich flavours of roasted veggies and is usually boosted with dried shrimp. It is sour and spicy. This traditional chilli paste is incredibly adaptable. Use it anyway you like, I occasionally use it in the tom yum soup noodles, stir-fries with the blanched French beans, and even just as a spread over sliced cucumber or bread. You can use any other variety of dried red chilies to prepare the paste but bear in mind that they will often be hotter the smaller they are. I'm using a mixture of mild and hot chilies. The butcher informed me that...

  For Cantonese people, lamei （腊味） or preserved meat, is a must-have New Year's dish. It is a classic Cantonese New Year dish that both adults and kids look forward to, whether it is steamed, fried, or boiled into delectable, preserved meat rice. In fact, Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macau are where the practice of purchasing preserved meat for Chinese New Year is most popular. Prior to the New Year, the older Cantonese Malaysian generation still purchases preserved meat. Elder always told that in order to be complete during Chinese New Year, we must consume all the "flavours" we miss the most. They view that cured meat or preserved meat as having the most recognizable "flavour”. There are many types of Cantonese-style cured meat. In addition to the common sausages, bacon, cured duck, and cured sausages. Suppose I wanted to make La Mei and steamed rice with bacon, duck and sausages.   I haven’t seen cured duck for sale this year. So, I cooked without the cured duck ...

These delicious restaurant-level dishes - steamed garlic paste with glass noodles with garlic paste will definitely boost your appetite. The glass noodles in this dish absorb the delicacy of the fresh shrimp and the garlic paste. This dish allows the sweetness of the prawns to come through, accentuated by the flavour of garlic and the oyster sauce. Should the shells be removed before serving glass noodles with garlic prawns? Well, it is unnecessary. for steamed prawns with glass noodles, is best to choose large and plump prawns. The prawns do not need to be shelled, just cut off the big tip and feet in front of the head, deveined, and rinsed. The prawn shell has a distinct flavour of its own. The umami flavour of the shrimp shells will enhance the flavour of the prawn meat when steaming, making the prawn taste more delectable.  This Chinese steamed garlic shrimp with glass noodles recipe is so easy that you really do not need any skills to execute it. On a scale of 1-5 and 5 being ...

  A must-have dish for the Lunar New Year is steamed braised pork ( 扣肉 ). Some people enjoy making braised pork with yam, while others prefer to use preserved veggies. The key to making braised pork is to boil the meat first, then deep-fry it, and finally steam it. The sauces are the key to enhancing the flavour of the braised pork with either yam or preserved veggies. Of course, choosing pork that is half-fat and lean pork belly tastes the best is also crucial.   You can choose how thinly you want the pork slices. I sliced my pork to a thinness of 10 to 15 mm thinness.  Another crucial tip is to just use wine and no water when preparing the braised pork. I'm using Shaoxing wine, and it's been proven that the more wine you use, the tastier and more fragrant the meat will be and that the meat will remain fragrant after stewing. As I mentioned, this braised pork needs to boil first, then be deep-fried.  For those who find frying meat is very troublesome , you can w...

The glutinous rice chicken (Lo Mai Gai) is soft and gingery, paired with savory chicken pieces, shiitake mushrooms, and Chinese sausages, making this dim sum a favorite of many people. It is not difficult to make glutinous rice chicken at home. As far as the chicken and mushrooms are marinated well and the steamed glutinous rice is mixed with the mixed sauce, it can make a delicious glutinous rice chicken in a dim sum restaurant. The steamed glutinous rice chicken can be frozen in the refrigerator. When you want to eat it, take it out and steam  it until it softens, and you can enjoy the hot and fragrant glutinous rice chicken.  When talking about glutinous rice, I believe that many friends are having problems cooking glutinous rice,  such as too much water in the rice. Rice that has been overcooked or that is too sticky to eat has a harsh texture. To make glutinous rice chicken, getting the rice done is the most important key.   Let me share with you how to ...

Crispy cauliflower fritters are super addictive!! They are like a vegetarian version of chicken popcorn and taste great with my own made Bang Bang Sauce. These cauliflower fritters are so crispy and tasty that you will need to prepare a second batch. The batter can be made up in advance!  Since they are best consumed immediately after being fried, if you are unable to consume them all at once, fry only what you can and store the remaining batter in the refrigerator for future use. I make the batter with two types of flour: regular flour and rice flour or cornflour. I've discovered that although cornflour will provide a batter with a stronger crunch, rice flour will produce something that fries up light and crisp. Both are delicious.    Cauliflower fritters taste great with some sriracha, ketchup, or cheese sauce on the side. But I am serving it with my own homemade Bang Bang sauce. This sauce is good with seafood, but you can whip it up and use it on meat or vegg...

Whenever I went to a wedding meal. The first "Hot and Cold" dish, particularly the scrambled eggs with shark fin and crab meats, is always devoured by the diners. It turns out that it goes by the extremely lovely name of osmanthus Wings ( 桂花翅 ). Due to the propaganda to protect sharks. The restaurant no longer serves this dish with shark fins. In Hong Kong, osmanthus fried wings with sweet-scented osmanthus are a unique meal. You can find interesting names for their items on the menu if you ever pay attention to it. when you order something only to discover that it is not what you ordered. This meal is comparable to another one called "ants on the tree,” ( 蚂蚁上树 ) which is stir-fried vermicelli with minced pork. Originally, Osmanthus fried wings are not using real shark fins, but imitation shark fins which are replaced by vegetarian fins are made of gelatin, or you may also substitute with vermicelli. The scrambled egg looks like osmanthus fragrans, so it is called os...

On the night of the winter solstice, every household is having dinner with their family members. Just like the Chinese New Year and the Mid-Autumn Festival, make dumplings, make glutinous rice balls, and have a big meal. It is implying reunion and happiness for the whole family. It's customary to have glutinous rice balls (Tangyuan 汤圆 ) on the winter solstice. Tangyuan is a must-have food for the winter solstice. It is a round dessert made of glutinous rice flour. There is a folk saying that “you will be one year older after eating glutinous rice balls”. Even restaurants also serve glutinous rice balls as a promotional menu on that day.   On the dining table, Cantonese treat sweet glutinous rice balls seem to dominate.   Both of my parents are Cantonese, yet my mother never makes sweet "tangyuan" on this day; instead, she always makes a pot of salty glutinous rice balls. The filling is not wrapped in glutinous rice balls, but glutinous rice is rolled into balls and bo...