Breakfast Pancakes  

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Ingredients :

  • 1 cup of all-purpose flour
  • 1 cup of water (use about 90% full if you want your pancakes "thicker")
  • 2 tablespoons of sugar
  • 1 egg
  • Some butter

Directions :

  1. Whisk all ingredients in a bowl until well blended and smooth. Heat up the pan and grease it with some butter. Use a ladle to scoop up the batter and pour it onto the pan. Flip the pancake and cook it to light brown on both sides.
  2. Serve hot with some butter.

Chrysanthemum Jasmine Reduced Pressure Tea (甘菊茉莉花減壓茶)  

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Ingredients :
  • 50 gm chrysanthemum (甘菊50克)
  • 50 gm jasmine (茉莉花50克)
Directions :
  1. Soak chrysanthemum and jasmine in hot boiling water for 30 minutes. (將甘菊和茉莉花用熱開水浸泡30秒左右)
  2. Pour into cup or teapot. Ready to serve. (最后將甘菊和茉莉花茶倒入杯中或壺中即可飲用)

Pineapple Fried Rice  

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Ingredients :

  • 450g overnight cooked rice
  • 4 tbsp oil
  • 250g pineapple, diced
  • 100g small prawns
  • 100g chicken meat, diced
  • 2 eggs, lightly beaten
  • 3 tbsp fish sauce (Nampla)
  • 1 tsp pepper
  • 1 tsp sugar
  • 1 tsp chicken stock granules
  • 5 bird chillies (cilipadi), chopped
  • Chopped spring onions and coriander for garnishing
Directions :
  1. Heat wok with 2 tbsp oil and saute prawns and chicken meat until cooked. Add eggs and combine well. Mix in rice; add seasoning and blend well. Gradually drip in remaining oil.
  2. Lastly, add pineapple and blend well. Add the chilli and chopped spring onions and coriander. Dish out and serve either in a pineapple boat or on individual serving plates.

Pak Toong Koe (Steamed White Cake)  

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Ingredients :

(A)

  • 125ml lukewarm water
  • 1 tbsp sugar
  • 1 tsp instant yeast
(B)

  • 300g rice flour
  • 250ml water

Syrup :

  • 275g sugar
  • 375ml water
  • 1 pandan leaf, knotted
Directions :

  1. For the syrup, bring sugar, water and pandan leaf to a boil to dissolve the sugar. Allow to cool completely.
  2. Combine (B) together to form a dough. Remove a piece of dough the size of a fist from the main dough. Put it in a saucepan and add about 125ml water. Cook over low flame until it turns gluey and starchy, keep stirring as it is being cooked. Leave aside to cool completely, then mix well with the main dough to form a flour paste.
  3. Put lukewarm water in a bowl, add sugar and sprinkle with instant yeast. Leave aside for it to froth, then add this to the flour paste. Blend well and set aside for one to one and a half hours.
  4. Combine sugar syrup with the flour paste and mix well. Leave aside to rest for 10 to 15 minutes.
  5. Pour mixture into a well-greased 22cm square cake pan.
  6. Steam cake over rapid boiling water over a moderate heat for 15 to 20 minutes.
Note :
Wrap the steamer cover with a tea towel to prevent vapour dropping over the cake.

Wintermelon Soup  

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Ingredients :
  • 1 Chicken drumstick, skinned and chopped into bite sized pieces
  • 200g Wintermelon
  • 2 Dried scallops, crushed
  • 1/2 tsp Rock sugar, coarsely blended
  • 9 Chinese red dates, rinsed, seeded and slit to release flavor
  • 1 tsp Dried longan flesh, rinsed
  • 3 pcs Tong sum
  • 9 slices Ginseng
  • 1 tsp Kei chi
  • 2 1/2 cups Fresh chicken stock
  • 1 tsp Salt
Directions :

  1. Skin the melon, remove seeds and pith, cut into small cubes
  2. Steam the dried scallops for 15 minutes or until soft.
  3. Shred finely with your fingers and set aside.
  4. Place all ingredients in a saucepot and bring to a boil.
  5. Divide into 3 portions and place portions in bamboo cups till full.
  6. Cover the cups with their lids.
  7. Place in a steamer and steam over medium heat for 30-40 mins.
  8. Serve soup in bowls.

Coconut Cookies  

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Ingredients :
  • 2 egg whites
  • 1 pinch salt
  • 1/3 cup sugar
  • 2 cups shredded coconut
  • 1/2 teaspoon almond extract
  • 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
  • 3 tablespoons cornstarch
  • maraschino cherries (optional)
Directions :
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  2. Line cookie sheet with parchment paper.
  3. In a medium size bowl with an electric mixer, beat the egg whites and salt together until they form soft peaks, then sprinkle in the sugar and continue beating until peaks are stiff.
  4. Add almond extract and give it a quick buzz with the beaters just to incorporate it.
  5. Now, with a wooden spoon stir in half the coconut; then the nutmeg;then the flour; then finally fold in the remaining coconut.
  6. Using a scoop or just working with two spoons, form snowballs a couple of inches apart on your cookie sheets--aim for about 10 so that you can keep them on the same sheet.
  7. Press half a maraschino cherry in the top of cookie.
  8. Bake for 15 minutes, or less time if you make small ones, just until they are a light and golden colour.
  9. Remove cookie tray from oven, remove the cookies to a cooling rack and let cool.

Carrot Corn Pig Bone Soup (胡萝卜玉米猪骨汤)  

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Ingredients :
  • Pig bone 2lbs (猪骨2lbs)
  • Corn 5 roots (玉米5根)
  • Carrot 3 roots (胡萝卜3根)
  • Tomato 2 (番茄2个)
  • Ginger 4 pieces (姜4片)
  • Salty 2 soupspoon (盐2勺)
Directions :
  1. Cut and slice the pig bone into small pieces, clean and soak in the water for a while to remove away bloody water, clean the corn then with your hand breaks off into 3 sections, clean the carrot skins and cuts into uneven slice, clean the tomato then all cut into two pieces. (猪骨切块洗净在水里浸泡一会儿去掉些血水,玉米洗净后用手掰成3段,胡萝卜洗净去皮后切滚刀块,番茄洗净后一切二)
  2. When the water boiled, put in the pig bone, skim off floats end, then put in the corn, carrot, tomato and the ginger piece. Use high flame till boil then transfer praises for 3 hours to the medium, lastly put the salt to blend flavors. (锅里水烧开后放入猪骨,撇去浮末,然后放入玉米,胡萝卜,番茄和姜片,先大火烧开再转至中小火褒3小时,临出锅时放盐调味)

Cendol Jelly  

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Ingredients :
  • 25 gm agar-agar strips, soaked for 10-15 minutes
  • 200 gm soft brown sugar
  • 1 litre water
  • 2 cups (500ml) thick coconut milk (from 2 grated white coconuts)
  • 2 pandan leaves, shredded and knotted
  • 350 gm cendol, well drained

Directions :

  1. Put water, sugar and pandan leaves in a saucepan and bring to a boil over medium heat.
  2. Add dissolved agar-agar and boil for 12-15 minutes, stirring frequently unti sugar and agar-agar have dissolved completely. Discard pandan leaves.
  3. Stir in coconut milk and bring to a boil, then remove from heat.
  4. Pour the jelly mixture straight into a 23cm square tin.
  5. Add the cendol and stir lightly to mix. Leave aside to cool completely.
  6. Chill the jelly well in the refrigerator before cutting into serving pieces.

Ginkgo Barley Dessert With Foo Chuk  

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Ingredients :
  • 20 grammes of barley
  • About 15 to 20 pieces of ginkgo nuts
  • 1 to 2 pieces of foo chuk
  • 4 pieces of Screw pine leaves / Daun Pandan (washed and tied to a knot)
  • Sugar to taste
  • About 1 litre of water
Directions :
  1. Bring water to boil in a large pot. Add screwpine leaves, barley and ginkgo nuts and let it boil on medium heat for 45 minutes. Add foo chuk and sugar to taste and let it boil for another 15 minutes or so before serving.
  2. Cooking time and amount of ingredients is approximate as it is dependant on your liking. However, the ingredients are essential, of course. You can make do without the screwpine leaves but you will miss out on the fragrance which it imparts.

Leng Chee Kang (Sweet Lotus Seed Soup)  

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Ingredients :
  • 250g dried lotus seeds (len chee)
  • 1/2 tsp bicarbonate soda
  • 1.5 litres water
  • 2 pandan leaves, knotted
  • 100g dried longan
  • 75g rock sugar
Directions :
  1. Put dried lotus seeds into a basin. Put just enough cold water to cover the lotus seeds and add bicarbonate of soda. Set aside for two to two and a half hours. Drain, then wash thoroughly.
  2. Bring water to a boil. Add soaked lotus seeds and cook until the seeds turn soft. Add dried longan and rock sugar. Simmer until longan turns soft and sugar dissolves. Add pandan leaves at the final stage.
  3. Serve this dessert either hot or cold.