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Crispy Cincalok Pork Belly (咸虾酱脆花肉)

You might have tried deep fried pork belly with red bean curd or shrimp paste. Have you ever tried cincalok pork belly? Cincalok has a very strong pungent smell and taste, but once it is cooked with meat, it is either steamed or fried. The smell will subside and it ’ will be the most delicious and fragrant dish on the table.   Cincalok is very versatile, and you can use it to create a delicious dish with fried wings or an omelet. This deep fry pork belly with cincalok is a super simple recipe. It goes well with white rice and more. The important note to this recipe is to cut off the pork belly skin. The trick with this recipe is to cook the meat through without making it tough, and to naturally enhance the umami flavour of the tender pork belly with cincalok. Making this deep-fried pork belly at home is quite simple. All you need to do is to marinade the pork with cincalok to enhance the intense flavor, then deep fry with a thin coating of cornstarch until golden brown. That’s i

Steamed Wontons (蒸云吞)

Wontons are a kind of Chinese dumpling that are usually fried or boiled in soup after being filled with meat or vegetables. It has a rich filling and a thin exterior shell. It is juicy, fragrant, and tastes especially nice when you bite into it. I'll be sharing a recipe for steamed wontons with you today. When eaten, the chewy, steaming wontons are crystal transparent. When served with dipping sauce, it's a tasty dish. Anyway, the key to a good wonton is the sauce that brings out the many tastes of the wontons, whether they are boiled, fried, or steam cooked. This steamed wonton with my own made dipping sauce, so good!! The recipe is very simple. Put the wrapped and blanched wontons into the steamer, boil the water and steam over medium heat for 8 minutes. Finally, add Mix the steamed wontons with the sauce and serve. If you steam it too much and can't finish it, pour some scallion oil on it and put it in the refrigerator to keep it from sticking. You can take it out

Chicken Cha Siu Bao Bun

This flavourful and tender Char Siu chicken, covered in a mouthwatering Char Siu sauce, is perfectly paired with these fluffy and soft bao bun.  This is great for easy weekend cooking because you can rest the chicken overnight and even make the buns ahead of time to help with the cooking. These fluffy treats are now possible to create at home if you're always ordering them from food trucks or restaurants! So delicious, you'll want more and more! Char Siu, or Chinese BBQ pork is adored the world over. Unfortunately, because Char Siu is always cooked with pork, many people cannot enjoy it. Thus, I'd like to share with you today this oven-roasted chicken that has been marinated in my own Char Siu sauce. Imagine the meat—juicy, sweet, and savory—with that charred skin from the exterior. It's a perfect ten and tastes great! And making it at home is not difficult! Chicken thighs have the best flavours and texture, so i am using skinned, boneless thighs. You will want to kee

Stir Fried Glass Noodles With Sambal And Tamarind Juice

  Have you ever tried stir-fried glass noodles with sambal?   If you haven’t, you’re in for a treat! This glass noodle stir fry is delicious and bursting with flavors! It is prepared with a range of ingredients. The combination of vegetables, protein, and carbohydrates. The vegetable that I am using is French bean. Besides, the dish also contains potatoes, tempeh, tofu, and tofu sheet. While the shrimp provides a protein-packed base. Makes it rather full even though eaten without rice. It is truly as satisfying as a one pot meal. The secret to bringing all these flavors together is the sambal which you may refer to Nasi Lemak Sambal about the ingredients of making it. It’s spicy, savory, slightly sweet, and just a little bit salty, with a rich umami flavor that’s hard to resist. These glass noodles have a tangy taste from the tamarind sauce in addition to the umami and spice from the sambal. Although it can be slightly tart, the flavour of the tamarind is never overpowering. It

Homemade Nasi Lemak (椰浆饭)

  Nasi lemak can be regarded as Malaysia’s ‘national treasure’ dish. Every morning, you can easily find Nasi Lemak in those Mamak stalls, Chinese coffee shops, on the roadside or even in a 5 Star hotel. You can eat it for Breakfast, Brunch, Dinner, Mid Meal or otherwise. Some are ready wrapped with banana leaves and grease proof paper. You can have a basic version, and you can have various condiments to go along with it.  This dish is normally added with a hot spicy sauce (sambal) and various garnishes, including fresh cucumber slices, small fried anchovies (ikan bilis), roasted peanuts, and hard-boiled or fried eggs. And sometimes it also serves with sambal squid, curry chicken, beef rendang, fried fish, stir-fried vegetables. When talking about nasi lemak, that hot spicy sauce (sambal) is a must. It is the soul of Nasi Lemak. A plate of nasi lemak without sambal will not have the taste that nasi lemak should have. As well as the rice must taste with coconut flavor. That’s the p

Crispy Homemade Seafood Tofu (招牌豆腐)

  Try this simple Crispy Homemade Seafood Tofu! This Seafood Tofu, also called Signature Tofu ( 招牌豆腐 ), is a signature dish that is widely offered in Chinese restaurants and is quite excellent. Fortunately, it's quite simple to prepare this delicious dish at home! There are basically just three easy stages involved in making homemade seafood tofu: Combine all ingredients, then steam the tofu mixture before deep-frying it to a perfect texture. This is a delectable meal of deep-fried tofu with soft tofu, seafood (typically prawns and fish), carrots, coriander, and spring onions added for flavour and colour. This recipe can be adjusted as you like, very flexibly. You can add minced meat or cuttlefish. You can make changes to my recipe to suit your taste as you may prefer more of one ingredient and less of another. I am using mackerel for this recipe. In fact, you can choose any kind of firm white fish. Or you can use salmon also. The inside is extremely soft and bursting with

Braised Pork Belly with Noodles (卤肉面)

  Lu Rou Fan, also known as Taiwanese Braised Pork Rice, is a relatively frequent dish found in street markets and restaurant stalls inTaiwan. It is said that the best braised pork rice in Taiwan is at Keelung Miaokou Night Market( 基隆廟口夜市 ) I haven’t tried the braised pork rice there. I’ve had Jiufen ( 九份 ) braised pork rice. I adore the succulent braised pork belly drenched in a delightfully savory sauce. It is always served in a bowl by adding an egg on top. What a bliss on a bowl!!  But I'm giving a twist with this braised pork. I am going to pair it with noodles in my own way, so I name it Lu Rou Mian ( 卤肉面 ).  I am using quail egg, you may replace it with regular eggs.  The dish is very similar Hong Shao Rou (红烧肉) or red cooked pork. It’s all about the size of the pork belly cut and the kind of aromatics and spices used. While Hong Shao Rou involves big, luscious chunks of pork belly, Lu Rou Fan is almost like a braised meat sauce.   INGREDIENTS 1 tbsp vegetable oil

Turmeric Chicken Rice

I am sure everyone eats lots of meals with plain white rice as a side. Or are you looking to make some variety, but keep the rice as a side dish? This turmeric rice and meat dish consists of fluffy rice layered over tender and succulent pieces of meat, accompanied with mesmerizing aromas of spices, herbs, and fried shallots.   This bone-in chicken thighs are coated in a mix of turmeric, garlic, ginger, and coriander roots, and nestled into a pan of rice. As it cooks, the spiced chicken fat seasons the rice, which turns especially crisp where it meets the edges and bottom of the pan while staying soft and chewy on top. Even though there are a lot of ingredients and processes involved, the outcome is worth the time if you divide the labour and marinate the chicken and/or fried the shallots the day before. You'll become an expert, and it won't feel like too much work after creating this a few times. One of the marinade ingredients is buttermilk. What happens when you marinat

Sticky Honey Chicken Wings with Pumpkin Seeds

  I think many of us have a particular craving for fried chicken. If you have tasted this sticky honey fried chicken, all you want is one more mouthful, or two. Every single piece of crunchy sweet chicken was flavour with butter, honey, and garlic. Delicious!! The combination of honey and butter is magical and incredibly harmonious. I particularly enjoyed these sticky wings that I have it  from an open food market, and I decided to make them in my own kitchen. I began experimenting with it, testing with different types of flour for coating, adjusting the ratio of sugar to honey, and even experimented with using butter or cooking oil to make the sauce.   It took quite a few experiments until I was satisfied with the result. The crispy fried chicken on its own is already impressive, achieved from double frying. When it’s coated with a sticky glaze, these wings are on a whole other level. Here are a few tips that I swear by when it comes to making Fried Chicken Wings: 1.Marinade the