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Old Cucumber Soup  

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Ingredients :

  • 1 old cucumber (slice half lengthwise, remove seeds, then cut across into chunks)
  • 300 grammes bony pork
  • 2 pieces dried cuttlefish (cut into half or quartered)
  • 5 to 10 pieces dried scallops
  • 8 red dates
  • 1 litre water
Directions :
  1. Bring water to boil. Add bony pork and remove scum from surface of water till no more scum appears.
  2. Add the rest of the ingredients, allow to rapid boil for 3 minutes before covering and lowering flame to simmer the soup for 2 to 3 hours.
  3. Add salt to taste before serving.
  4. If you wish to double boil, first boil the bony pork in a separate pork using separate portion of water. Thereafter, drain and place bony pork together with the other ingredients in a double boiler. Add 1 1/2 bowls of boiling hot water into the ingredients. Double boil for 3 hours.

Four Great Heavenly King (四大天王)  

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Ingredients :
  • 100 gm long bean (角豆 100克)
  • 50 gm petai (臭豆 50克)
  • Peas some (荷蘭豆 適量)
  • Red chilli some (紅辣椒 適量)
  • 1 onion (洋蔥 一粒)
  • Dried shrimp some (蝦米 適量)
Seasoning (調味料) :
  • 3 soupspoon sambal (三峇 3湯匙)
  • 1/2 soupspoon sugar (糖 半湯匙)
  • 1/2 teaspoon pepper (胡椒粉 半茶匙)
  • 150 ml water (清水 150毫升)
Directions :
  1. Heat oil in wok, fry dried shrimp, onion and chilli till fragrance. (放油熱鍋,將蝦米、洋蔥、辣椒爆香)
  2. Add in long bean, petai, peas and red chilli and continue fry, add in water and all seasoning ingredients. (加入角豆、臭豆、荷蘭豆及紅辣椒,拌勻,再加入清水及所有腌料)
  3. Fry for 4 minutes. (炒熱4分鐘即可食用)

Siew Pak Choy With Braised Mushrooms  

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Ingredients :
  • 200 grammes of siew pak choy (rinsed clean and cut between stem and leaves. Separate stems from leaves)
  • 5 shiitake mushrooms or chinese dried mushrooms (if latter, soak overnight till soft)
  • 1 cup chicken stock
  • 3 cloves garlic (chopped finely)
  • 1 cup warm water
  • 3 tablespoons palm oil
Seasoning :
  • 1 tablespoons oyster sauce
  • 1 teaspoon abalone sauce
  • 1/2 teaspoon fish sauce
  • Salt to taste
  • A dash or two of white pepper powder
  • 2 teaspoons chinese cooking wine
Directions :
  1. Heat oil in wok and saute garlic on medium high heat till light brown. Remove fried garlic.
  2. With remaining oil in wok, stir fry mushrooms for 1 minute. Add chicken stock and 1/2 cup water. Add seasoning (except chinese cooking wine) and allow to boil. Once boiling, reduce heat to simmer till gravy reduced to 1/2 cup. (This should take about 5 to 10 minutes)
  3. Meanwhile, bring to boil a large pot of water. Add 1 tablespoon palm oil and 2 teaspoons salt.
  4. Then add siew pak choy stems followed by leaves 15 seconds later. Once leaves turn colour to dark green, remove siew pak choy from pot and arrange them on a plate.
  5. Once gravy reduced to a thick sauce, add chinese cooking wine (if you want to, add 1 tablespoon of potato starch to thicken sauce to your liking) and stir well.
  6. Pour gravy and mushroom over the siew pak choy and garnish with fried garlic.

Rempeyek  

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Ingredients :
  • 200 gm rice four
  • ½ teaspoon baking powder
  • 250 ml coconut milk
  • ½ teaspoon coriander (ground)
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • 1 clove garlic (chopped)
  • Pinch of cummin (ground)
  • Pinch of turmeric (ground)
  • 1 candle nut (grated)
  • 100 gm raw peanuts
  • Oil for frying
Directions :
  1. Mix the rice flour with baking powder and coconut milk, then add coriander, cummin, turmeric, garlic and candle nut.
  2. Add the slightly crushed peanuts and stir well. This will give you a slightly runny batter mix.
  3. Heat oil in shallow pan and fry batter by the tablespoon, drain on absorbent paper.