Freddy Tan

Korean Rice Cake

2011-11-27T07:57:00.004-06:00

Korean Rice Cake

Ingredient:

1 small bowl of rice cake
2 sheets of fish cake
1/2 onion
1 stalk of leek (or spring onion)
2 leaves of cabbage
Gochujang 2 tbsp
Sugar 2 tbsp
Squashed garlic 1 tsp
1/3 cup of water

How to:
1. Thin slice the onion
2. cut cabbage, leek and fish cake into medium size pieces
3. pre heat wok, add some oil and onion and garlic
4. add cabbage, fish cake, fish cake, water, gochujang, sugar and stir it
5. add leek / spring onion and stir it
6. tadahh~~ done done ^^ korean rice cake yummyyy

If you don't know what is Gochujang, gochujang was made by adding powdered red chili peppers and glutinous rice powder to soybean paste, and aging this paste under the sun.
you can get this at any korean store / market. (in Singapore you can easily get it from NTUC Fairprice)

Soft Omelette

2011-08-09T22:20:00.003-05:00

This is soft omelette that we (me and my girl) made. Because she's craving for western omelette =D and finally we did it together.. Hehehe

The secret ingredient is milk.

Ingredients:

2 large fresh eggs
1 tablespoon of milk
pinch of salt and pepper
diced tomato
diced Ham
green onion
(anything that you like to add)

knob of butter

How To:
1. Crack the eggs into a bowl and mix together with a fork. Add salt, pepper, milk, other ingredients and beat again.

2. Put a knob of butter in frying pan over a medium heat. When the butter starts to melt pour the egg mixture into the pan and cook for approx 1-2 minutes until egg mixture is set.

3. Cook the omelette for approx 1 further minute then loosen the edges of the egg using aspatula . Lift and fold the omelette in half. Tilt the pan and slide the omelette off onto a warm plate.

Repost - Strawberry Love Dessert

2011-08-09T21:57:00.006-05:00

yeay.. finally i made it for my pretty girlfriend as valentine's early breakfast surprise where I suddenly show up at her home ^^ and she loved it...

If you notice this is the recipe on my first time start blogging and i never put the image in yet. Now, I can made it for my loved one =)

Strawberry Love Dessert

Ingredient:

Biscuit Marie Regal / sugar cookies
Margarine for cake (Blue Band or something else that smell good)
Whiskey (Good one make cakes taste better)
Sweetened condensed milk (white). If you like chocolate is fine too.
Strawberries
Messes
Marshmallow

How to make the cakes:

Crunch the biscuit.
Add margarine. Use hand to mix it until you feel like creamy in your hand and you feel good and soft in your hand.
Add little by little whiskey. But not too much. Test it by using your sense of taste.
Add sweetened condensed milk little by little until it sticks together. Not too much milk because it will become too soft and cannot stick together.
After than you can make what ever form you like (circle, square, love shape)
Make 2 layer of cake and put messes on the top of each layer.

How to put the dessert together:

gỏi cuốn - Vietnamese salad roll

2010-11-14T21:44:00.002-06:00

gỏi cuốn

Vietnamese traditional salad wrap which is very healthy diet dish, you should try this out ^^
Ingredients:
- rice paper (called banh trang)
- shrimp boiled and sliced into 2
- thin slice pork (i use grill chicken with soy sauce, salt, pepper, minced onion, minced garlic, basil)
- cilantro
- lettuce
- beansprout
- cucumber (thin slice)
- carrot (thin slice)
- vermicelli rice (bee hoon)

Dipping sauce:
- hoisin sauce (1 tbl spoon)
- water (2 tbl spoon)
- minced peanuts sprinkle on top of the sauce

How to make:
1. deep rice paper to warm water and place into flat dry plate
2. place shrimp, slice pork followed by lettuce, cucumber, carrot, bean sport, bee hoon and cilantro
3. fold the side first to prevent the ingredient coming out and roll it up tight

White Radish Soup

2010-07-27T04:37:00.001-05:00

Another healthy food from me. love it to the max!!! =p

White Radish Soup

1 white radish peal the skind and cut into blocks
600 gr pork ribs
2-3 carot cut into blocks.
dried cuttle fish (or fish sauce)
Salt and pepper

How to:
1. boil a pot of water, put all ingredients and boil them together for 10-15 mins.
2. lower down the flame and let it cook for 2 hours or until radish and carrot soften.
3. season the sup with fish sauce, salt and pepper.

Steam White Pomfret

2010-07-27T04:25:00.002-05:00

Chinese Home Style dish. Healthy and yummy. =)

Steam White Pomfret

1 Medium size white pomfret

4-5 slice of ginger
salted preserved vegetable sliced
2-3 shitake mushroom sliced (soak till soften)
dash of white pepper
1 table of light soysauce

How to:
1. Clean the fish, cut of fin and tail and make 2 slit on both side of the body.
2. stir fry ginger with 2 table spoon oil until fragrance.
3. add shitake mushroom and salted preserved vegetable, add light soysauce and sprinkle dash of salt and pepper. continue stir fry for a minute.

4. pour on top of the fish and place the fish on top of the steaming rack and steam for 10 mins.

Salsa

2009-12-23T22:27:00.002-06:00

Salsa is Mexican, Spanish, and Italian cuisine. Serve with Tortillas chips, or part of ingredient in burrito / quesadillas / salad. It taste so good and can be mixed with anything. =)

Salsa

6 tomatoes (dice)
4-5 Jalapeno / Chili pepper (dice)
2-3 clove garlic (minced)
1 Onion (dice)
1 handful cilantro (minced)
1 Lime (juice)
salt and black pepper
Tortilla chips.

How to prepare:
1. mix all ingredient and sprinkle some salt and black pepper, and keep in room temperature for 1-2 hours.
2. Next keep in fridge for couple hours. serve while it cool with tortilla chips.

To prepare Tortila chips from scratch:
1(12-count) package corn totillas
Vegetable oil for frying
salt (optional)
1. Preheat oil in a deep-fryer.
2. On a cutting board, stack 3 to 4 tortillas and using a sharp knife, cut into 8 wedges. Repeat with remaining tortillas. Separate any that may stick together.
3. Add a handful of tortilla wedges to the hot oil, stir to separate, and fry until crisp and golden brown. Salt immediately, if desired.
4. Repeat for the rest of tortilla wedges.

Crab Rangoon

2009-01-11T21:53:00.003-06:00

Crab Rangoon is an Chinese Americanize dish that originally developed in United States to match western taste. It stuffed with a combination of cream cheese and lightly flaked crab meat/ imitation crab meat.

Crab Rangoon

Ingredients:

8 ounces cream cheese
8 ounces fresh crab meat or canned crab meat, drained and flaked
1 teaspoon red onion, chopped
freshly ground pepper, to taste
1 green onion, finely sliced
1 large clove garlic, smashed, peeled, and finely minced
1-2 package won ton wrappers
1 small bowl water
Oil for deep-frying, as needed

Preparation:

Combine the cream cheese and crab meat. Mix in the remaining six filling ingredients (up to the wonton wrappers) one at a time.
On wonton wrapper, Add 1 teaspoon of filling to the middle. and wrap it to make it looks like bag.
Keep the completed Crab Rangoon covered with a damp towel or paper towel to keep them from drying out while preparing the remainder.
Heat wok and add oil for deep-frying. When oil is ready (the temperature should be between 360 - 375 degrees), carefully slide in the Crab Rangoon, taking care not to overcrowd the wok. Deep-fry until they are golden brown, about 3 minutes, turning once. Remove with a slotted spoon and drain. Serve hot with Sweet and Sour Sauce.

Sek Wai Sin's Tofu with Shrimp

2008-10-31T10:31:00.004-05:00

Hey my fellow food lover... After being away from US, finally, I've settle myself in Singapore.. I found a job and got my Permanent Resident within 3 1/2 months... also I have chance to cook again.. many different kind of food I never seen, taste and found in States. So I'd like to share it with you guys... This dish is from Singapore's famous red district area, Geylang, The restaurant is called Sek Wai Sin.. Even though this area is famous of prostitution, they have famous Asian exotic restaurant too... so it a must to visit this place :D

Sek Wai Sin's Tofu with Shrimp

Ingredients:

1 Japanese Soft Tofu (cut into small pieces and deep fried)
5-8 Shelled big shrimp
1 tbs little small Dried shrimp (ebi)
some Green onion
1 Egg white
1/4 tsp light soy sauce
1 tsp cornstarch
a pinch salt
a pinch pepper
1/2 tsp vegetable stock
few drop sesame oil

How to prepare:
1. Cut tofu into small pieces and deep fried.
2. Strip off and discard the head from the whole shrimp (do not remove the tail), devein shrimp, rinse and dry.
3. Heat up vegetable oil, put some small dried shrimp (ebi) and stir fry for awhile until fragrance.
4. Add prawn cook until it's turn redish then add deep fried tofu.
5. Add some water mixed with cornstarch, pinch of salt and pepper, vegetable stock, light soy sauce, few drop of sesame oil and then add green onion.
6. Lastly, turn of the fire and pour 1 egg white in it and stir around and serve (remember do not boil it).

Enjoy... ^^

Frittata

2008-01-30T20:01:00.000-06:00

Last week I went to my friend's potluck. I tried Frittata made by Wieke Sutrisno, it's my first time tasting and OMG .. it's so yummy. I managed to get the recipe from Wieke, Thank you for Wieke, you are the best ^^. Frittata is an Italian omelet that frequently features fillings such as meats, cheeses, and vegetables.

Frittata

Ingredients:

Ham/ Bacon/ Imitation crab/ Italian Sausage
8 Eggs
1/3 cups Parmesan Cheese
1/2 cups Milk
Cilantro
Salt and pepper

How To Prepare:

Mix eggs, Parmesan cheese, milk, cilantro (quantity depends on preference) and small slice of hams (or other meats). For the meat, you can add as many as you want.. but not too many else the taste of egg will gone.
prepare muffin pan sprayed with cooking oil, pour the mix on it.
Heat oven 370F and bake for 8-12 minutes or until toothpick inserted in the center come out dry and clean.

Sa Cha Pork with string beans

2008-01-28T18:39:00.000-06:00

Sa Cha Pork with String Beans

Inspired by May House (Chinese cuisine in Ames IOWA) and Szechuan cuisine. I came up with pork dishes called Sa Cha pork with string bean.

the name Sa Cha is came from a sauce called Sa cha sauce or Barbecue sauce or paste made from soybean oil, shallots, chili, brill fish, and dried shrimp.

Ingredients:
300 gr Sliced Pork
100 gr string beans
1 1/2 tbs minced garlic
1 tbs cooking wine (rice wine)
1 tbs soy sauce
1 tbs Sa cha sauce/ Barbecue sauce
salt and pepper

How To:
Marinade pork with soy sauce.
Heat up vegetable oil and stir fry minced garlic until browned than add marinated pork stir fry until 1/2 done. Add Sa cha sauce, cooking wine and string bean then cook it until done. add salt and pepper, mix it well.

Cheesecake

2008-01-20T22:48:00.000-06:00

Cheesecake is a sweet, often cheese based dessert. My first cheesecake, since there's only chocolate on my fridge, I manage to bake chocolate cheesecake with melted and shredded chocolate added on top as decoration.

Cheesecake

Ingredients:
Crusts: (ready made crust is available too)
1 1/2 cups graham cracker crumbs / chocolate wafers/ Oreo
1/4 cup sugar
5 tbs melted butter

Filling:
2 blocks Cream Cheese (8oz / block)
3/4 cups sugar
3 tbs melted butter
2 eggs
Possible flavor: coffee, Kahlua, chocolate, Oreo, etc

How to prepare:
Mix the graham crackers and sugar, then add butter and mix with a fork until completely moistened. Press mixture into the bottom and up 1/3rd of the side of a 9-inch springform pan.
Refrigerate for 1 hour.
On a bowl, mix cream cheese, sugar, melted butter, eggs together. add desired flavoring then mix it well. pour on top of the crust.
bake with 350-375 F for 40 minutes.

Roselle Tea and Strawberry Ice cream tart

2008-01-18T22:57:00.000-06:00

There's not much about cooking or baking on this post, basically it's just an idea for desserts. First one is Roselle Tea which I just boil Roselle flower then add some sugar. Next is Strawberry Ice cream tart, which I use the left over crust from egg tart and put ice cream and strawberry on the top.

Roselle Tea

Ingredients:
Dried Roselle flower
rock candy

How To:
Boil water together with the Roselle flower for about 45 mins until the red color from the Roselle extracted. add some rock candy sugar to make it sweet. Serve it cold.

Strawberry Ice Cream Tart

Ingredients:
for the crust same as egg tart.
200 gr flour
125 gr margarine
1/2 tbs sugar
1 egg yolk
Ice cream
strawberries

How to prepare:
Put all ingredients for the crust together and mix well with your hand. The texture should be slightly moist. Add more butter if it is too dry, or more flour, if the dough seems greasy. Shape dough into 1 1/2 inch balls, and press the balls into tart molds so that it covers the bottom, and goes up higher than the sides. Preheat the oven to 250 degrees Fahrenheit, bake for 15 to 20 minutes in the preheated oven, until golden brown. Let it cool down, put a scoop of ice cream and strawberry on top.

Thai style Pineapple friedrice

2008-01-13T19:04:00.000-06:00

Pineapple fried rice is one of Thai cuisine. This dish is much less oily than Chinese fried rice, easy to prepare and cook. One of the way the dish differs from Chinese fried rice is that it is prepared with Thai Jasmine rice.

Thai Fried rice

Ingredients:
3 cups cooked rice (preferably 1 day old)
1 cup diced Beef/ pork/ chicken/ salmon, etc
1 small can pineapple chunk
2 eggs
2-3 tbs peanut or vegetable oil
1-2 tbs chicken stock
2 shallot chopped finely
3 cloves minced garlic
1/2 onion
1/2 cup frozen peas
1 small carrot (opt)
2 tbs fish oil
2 tbs curry powder
sugar, salt and pepper

How to prepare:

In a cup, stir fish oil and curry powder.
heat up oil, add shallot and garlic then stir fry until fragrant.
crack eggs and stir around (like making scramble egg).
add carrot, peas, and the fish sauce mixed with curry powder.
add rice, pineapple chunks and gently stir fry to combine over medium high heat.
add onion when the dish almost done, so that u will get the crispiness of the onion.
add salt and pepper, chicken stock and adjust the taste. add little sugar to make it sweet.
serve on the plate, top with spring onion and coriander, Yum yum :)

Bok Choi Sukiyaki

2008-01-09T00:45:00.000-06:00

My first update this year, Asian home style 2008 dish called BokChoi sukiyaki :p

Bok Choi Sukiyaki

Ingredients:
2 tbs vegetable oil
1/4 tsp sesame oil
2 cloves minced garlic
150 gram beef (thin sliced)
200 gram bok choi (Chinese vegetable)
1 tbs oyster sauce
1 tbs sukiyaki soy sauce (or Japanese soy sauce)
1/2 tsp salt
100 ml water
1/2 tsp corn/ tapioca starch

How to prepare:

Heat up vegetable oil and sesame oil.
Brown the garlic, add beef that already marinated with soy sauce, oyster sauce, salt, starch, pepper. Cook it until done add a little water and continue cook for awhile (it will thicken a little bit from the starch).
Boil water, put vegetable for a minute.
Put cooked vegetable on the plate and pour the meat on the top. Dinner is ready... ^^ serve while it warm.

Kung Pao Chicken

2007-12-31T12:41:00.001-06:00

Happy New Year 2008 guys... (posting this in advance because i will be busy this new year's eve !!) And this will be our last update for 2007, so see you again in 2008 !!!

Another authentic 0riental dishes, gōng bǎo chicken, from Szechuan cuisine. Also, popular among western community where they called it Kung Pao. This dish typically contain unroasted peanuts or cashew nuts that is dropped into hot oil on the bottom of the wok, then deep fried until golden brown before other ingredients added.

Kung Pao Chicken

Ingredients:

300 gr Chicken (white meat/ Breast) diced into 1x1
1 tbs peanut oil/ vegetable oil
1/2 tsp ginger powder
5-10 dried chilly
4 tbs tomato sauce
1 tbs sugar
1 tbs oyster sauce
2 green onion cut into 2 cm
2 tbs garlic diced
1 tbs black bean garlic
100 ml water
1/2 tsp sesame oil
black pepper
Peanut or cashew
1/4 sliced onion, red/ green pepper (optional)

How to prepare:
Stir fry garlic and ginger until fragrance. add chicken cook until done, add all other spices and little water then cook until it dry out. add dried chilly, onion, green onion and fried peanut and stir around.

Clay Pot Chicken Rice

2007-12-12T23:46:00.000-06:00

Clay pot chicken rice is one of Singapore and Malaysia dish. rice cooked on clay pot, then cooked ingredients such as chicken, Chinese sausage, salted fish, shitake Mushroom will be added later. This is time consuming dish, because slow-cooking in clay pot is needed. With clay pot, it will give maximum flavor and visually appetizing since clay pot keeps good retention of heat.

Clay Pot Chicken Rice
Ingredients:
3 boneless chicken tights or breast
1 Chinese sausage (Lap Chiong)
1 salted fish (deep fried)
2-3 shitake mushroom
1 tbs minced garlic
1 tbs dark soysauce
1 tbs ginger powder
1 tbs sugar
1 tbs cooking wine
1/2 tsp sesame oil
1/2 tsp tapioca/ corn starch
3 cups Jasmine rice
chicken stock, salt, pepper, vegetable oil

How to prepare:

Soak shitake mushroom in hot water for couple hours. Marinade Chicken with soy sauce, ginger, sugar, cooking wine, sesame oil and starch for 30 minutes.
Rinse jasmine rice, and put in on the clay pot then add water with chicken stock. Bring it to boil and then turn the stove to low heat. Cook with low heat temperature for 15 minutes.
On frying pan, heat up oil stir fry minced garlic until it turn brown then add marinated chicken and shitake mushroom then cook until done.
After the rice is about done (after 15 minutes), add cooked chicken on the top, lap chiong, and salted fish then continue cooking with low temperature for another 15 minutes.
Sprinkle some green onion on the top. Ready to serve!!!

Semur

2007-12-03T22:36:00.000-06:00

Indonesian authentic stew chicken (or beef) in soy sauce also called chicken semur is one of my country's dishes. It's easily prepared and served with rice. This dish is very aromatic because of many spices being used and it taste like rainbow (sweet, sour, salty ~ ramai rasanya ~ ^^).

Semur

Ingredients:

800 g chicken thighs/wings/ drumstick (boned) or beef
3 tbs vegetable oil and enough for deep frying
20 g garlics, peeled and sliced
30 g shallots, peeled and sliced
6 eggs hard boiled then deep fried until golden
1 potato, peeled, sliced then deep fried until golden
1 star anise
4-5 cloves
1 pinch of nutmeg
1 inch cinnamon stick
5 tbs soysauce
5-6 tbs sugar
1 tbs lime juice
2-3 pinches of salt, white pepper, chicken stock to taste
1 tomato sliced

How to prepare:
Deep fried potato and hardboiled egg.
brown shallots, garlic then add chicken/ beef add soysauce, staranise, nutmeg, cinnamon stick.
Add water about 2-3 cups and boil until the meat done. add sugar, lime juice, salt, pepper, chicken stock. Add tomato, fried eggs, and potato when almost done cooking (boil for 1-2 minutes)

Chicken, Tofu and Varieties of Mushrooms

2007-11-28T03:18:00.000-06:00

An unnamed Chinese dish that I share today is originally inspired from one of Chinese restaurant in Malaysia. This dish is basically contains fried tofus, Shitake mushrooms and Enoki mushrooms. Since there are no recipe shared, I managed to imitate that dish and it turned out alike and tasty.

Chicken, Tofu and Varieties of Mushrooms

Ingredients:
chicken breast (optional)
soft tofu (cut into cube and deep fried)
Shitake Mushrooms (soak for few hours)
Enoki Mushrooms
1 tbs soy sauce
2 tbs oyster sauce
spring onion (cut into 1.5-2 inches long)
salt, pepper, chicken stock and starch

How to prepare:
Marinade chicken with soy sauce. Heat up oil and stir fry chicken, add oyster sauce, salt, pepper and chicken stock. When the chicken is done, add tofu and all mushroom then mix it around.
mix water and starch (corn or tapioca) than add it on the dish. Bring it to boil than put spring onions. Done done... ^^

Shanghai Nian Gao

2007-11-27T21:15:00.000-06:00

Another dish that I made recently, Shanghai cuisine, called Nian Gao also called shanghai nian gao. The main ingredient is rice cake or glutinous rice that is pounded or ground into paste and molded into shape. To prepare this dish you will need in advance preparation because you will need to soak the rice cake for at least 12 hours and also soak the Shitake mushroom.

Shanghai Nian Gao

Ingredients:
Chicken or pork (sliced)
1 small bowl rice cake (soaked for over night)
3-4 Shitake mushroom (soaked for over night and sliced)
1-2 bunch of yiu choi/ nappa cabbage/ kai lan
1-2 carrots (sliced)
1 tbs dark soy sauce
2 tbs oyster sauce
1 tbs sugar
water mix with little starch (tapioca/ corn)
Chicken stock, salt and pepper

How to prepare:
Marinade chicken/ pork with dark soy sauce. Heat up oil and stir fry the meat until 3/4 cooked and add oyster sauce and sliced carrots then fry for awhile (so that it will become soft in the end). Then, add the rest of ingredients and mix it well. In the end put some water mixed with starch to make it a little gravy and ready to serve ~yum yumm Y( ^^.)Y

Opor Ayam

2007-11-19T19:40:00.000-06:00

Opor ayam!!!! one of Indonesian traditional dish. It's Indonesian braised chicken in coconut milk.
Originally come from center and east Java, but it known by all continent around Indonesia. Mostly served by the native Indonesian on Muslim's new year (Lebaran).

Opor Ayam

Ingredients:
8 chicken tights or drum sticks
2 grounded hot red pepper
1 tbs brown sugar
1 tbs ground coriander
1 tbs ground caraway
1 tbs lemon juice
2 bay laurel leaves
1 medium onion
2 cloves garlic
1 cup coconut milk

How to prepare:
Season chicken with salt and pepper, bake for 30 minutes at 350 Fahrenheit.
Stir fry onion, garlic with oil. Then add coriander, caraway, lemon juice, laurel leaves and coconut milk and bring to a boil and pour on the chicken, let it bake for another 20 minutes until the sauce thickens. (stir occasionally)

Nasi Tim Ayam Jamur and Acar

2007-11-13T16:19:00.000-06:00

Everyone.... hmmmm what's today's menu... I'm so confuse what to cook... Hehe. Nasi Tim ayam jamur is the easiest dish to prepare when you are out of idea of what to cook. Nasi tim Ayam jamur translated from Indonesian language which means Steam Chicken rice and mushroom.

Nasi Tim Ayam Jamur and Acar (and shrimp cracker ^^)

Ingredients for Tim rice:
3 cups Rice
1 tbs sesame oil
2 garlic cloves, finely ground
1 cm ginger, finely ground
1 tbs soy sauce

Ingredients for Chicken mushroom:
2-3 chicken breast diced
1 tbs vegetable oil
3 cloves garlic, finely ground
2 cm ginger, finely ground
2 tbs soy sauce
1 tbs sweet soy sauce
100 gr straw mushroom sliced

Ingredients for Acar:
3 cucumber diced
1-2 Carot diced
Chilly diced
rice vinegar (adjustable)
sugar (adjustable)

How to make Nasi Tim Ayam Jamur:
Stir fry the chicken with all ingredients until well cook.
if you have a rice cooker, then you can do it the 'lazy' way:
- put the cooked chicken at the bottom of the rice cooker container
- put the seasoned (uncooked) rice on top of the chicken
- add soup water in it, twice the volume of the rice
- turn the rice cooker on, wait until it's cooked
if you don't have any rice cooker:
- prepare small heat-resistant bowls
- spoon 1 tbsp of the cooked chicken into the bottom of the bowl
- add 3 tbsp of seasoned (uncooked) rice
- add ±100 ml broth in the bowl
- steam for about 1-1,5 hour or until rice is cooked

How to make Acar:
Mix cucumber, carrot, and chilly. Add vinegar and sugar (you need to adjust it so that it taste sweet and sour.) It taste even better if you keep it over night.

Pontianak's Fish Porridge

2007-11-11T18:33:00.000-06:00

My home town dish, Pontianak fish porridge, is basically like rice soup instead of creamy like porridge. It's one of my favorite dish that I will find whenever I'm home to my home hometown :P

Pontianak's Fish Porridge

Ingredients:
Fish (Here I normally use Tilapia fish)
1 small bowl Rice
1 bowl of water
1 small sliced ginger
2 tbs fish sauce
1 tsp salt
1 tsp fish stock (chicken is fine too)
Romaine cabbage (optional)
Egg (optional)
Whitepepper

toppings:
tung choi (preserved vegetable)
fried garlic

How to prepare:
Boil water then add ginger, fish sauce, salt and fish/chicken stock (you may add more salt and fish stock to adjust the taste). When the water boiled, add fish, rice, cabbage, egg cook until the fish done. Serve on bowl and sprinkle preserved vegetable and fried garlic.

Nasi Uduk (Rice Cooked in Coconut Milk )

2007-11-03T12:47:00.000-05:00

Nasi Uduk is one of Indonesian traditional steam rice, cooked with coconut milk as a replacement of water, bay leaves, and lemon grass. In Malaysia they also have similar dish, called Nasi lemak.

Nasi Uduk

Ingredients:
1/2 kg Jasmine rice
Coconut milk (replacement of water)
3 Bay leaves
1 lemon grass
small piece of turmeric
pinch of salt

How to:
rinse the rice 1-2 times, than mix with all the ingredients and cook it on rice cooker.
Serve with fried shallot on the top of the rice.

Optional Side dish:
Fried chicken, balado eggs/ omelet, fried tofu, dried anchovies, spicy potato, perkedel, dried shrimp sambal, and more.
(Recipe for side dishes are available upon request)

Egg tarts

2007-10-22T23:58:00.000-05:00

Egg tarts are one of Hong Kong's special pastry, also popular among Chinese community. With flaky outer crust and soft egg custard in the middle, after baked, made me crazy for it. ^^

Egg tarts

Ingredients:
Egg custard filling:
12 large eggs
1 can sweetened condensed milk (about 300 cc or 300 ml)
2 can of water (using the same can as sweetened milk can)
1 can of sugar (using the same can as sweetened milk can)
Outer crust:
400 gr flour
250 gr margarine
1 tbs sugar
1 egg yolk

How to prepare:
Egg custard filling:
Put all ingredients together and stir around until mixed well. Filter it and than warm it on the stove for awhile (do not boil).
Outer crust:
Put all ingredients together and mix well with your hand. The texture should be slightly moist. Add more butter if it is too dry, or more flour, if the dough seems greasy. Shape dough into 1 1/2 inch balls, and press the balls into tart molds so that it covers the bottom, and goes up higher than the sides. Preheat the oven to 250 degrees Fahrenheit, bake for 15 to 20 minutes in the preheated oven, until golden brown, and the filling is puffed up a little bit.

Soft thin rice noodle (mee sua) soup

2007-10-22T23:44:00.000-05:00

Mee suah is soft thin rice noodle or very fine wheat vermicelli, commonly eaten by Chinese community. It's so~~~ good .. nothing more to say He he he..

Mee Suah Soup

Ingredients:
1 bundle of Mee suah (if you couldn't find any you may use bee hoon or regular vermicelli)
1 bowl of water
1/2 tbs salt
1/4 tbs chicken stock
1/2 tbs fish sauce
1 bundle of minced pork
5-8 shrimp
sliced leek

How to prepare:
Minced pork mix with little salt, chicken stock and corn starch/tapioca powder, then make small size of meat balls.
Boil water, add salt, chicken stock, fish sauce, meat balls and boil until meat is well cook.
Add mee suah, shrimp and sliced leek and boil for about 1-2 minutes. Serve on the bowl and sprinkle some fried shallots.

Miso soup and Miso Udon

2007-10-21T19:20:00.000-05:00

Miso soup can be served in many Japanese meals such as rice/bento meal, ramen, udon, nabe, and imoni. Miso in japanese means fermented soy-bean paste, it offers nutritious balance of natural carbohydrates, essential oil, minerals ,vitamins, protein and more.
Besides than regular miso soup, I also want to share noodle type dish with miso soup called Miso Udon. What I like from udon is the longer you soak in hot soup it will grow, grow and grow, So I always enjoy it slowly and it feels like never end noodle (keep growing) He he he.

Miso soup

Ingredients:
1 Small bowl of water
1/2 tsp dashi or chicken stock
1/2 tbs 2 tbs white bean miso paste (soy bean paste)
1/6 tsp salt
1/4 tsp Japanese soy sauce/ lite soy sauce / kikoman
Seaweed
soft tofu
1 spring onion sliced

How to prepare:
Place dashi/ chicken stock, miso paste, salt, soy sauce, soaked seaweed, tofu on the bowl then pour with hot boiled water. Sprinkle some spring onion.

Note: Never boil Miso as it changes taste and destroys the living enzymes.

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Miso Udon

Ingredients:
400 gr udon noodle
1 Litter water
1 tsp Japanese soy sauce /kikoman
1 tbs dashi granules (or chicken stock)
2 tbs white bean miso paste
1 chicken breast sliced
2-3 shitake mushroom soaked for 3 hours/over night
1-2 spring onion sliced
dried seaweed or toasted seaweed

How to prepare:
boil water and chicken breast when the chicken cooked, add Shitake mushroom and boil for awhile then off the stove. Add dashi/ chicken stock, miso paste. soak seaweed if you are using dried seaweed. boil udon noodle than rinse with cold water. Place Udon noodle on the bowl and pour miso soup on it, place seaweed and sprinkle spring onion on top.

Note: Never boil Miso as it changes taste and destroys the living enzymes.

Black Pepper Pork

2007-10-20T00:12:00.000-05:00

Here another dish taught by Anita, black pepper pork. When I'm tried to get rid of my celery, she told me to make this dish and it turn out pretty good. Eventually my brother like it too (he never praise the dish even he like it, but this time he did :p). The meat is cooked and the sesame smells pair perfectly with the spicy black pepper crust on the pork. An easy piece of meat to work with, a simple sauce that taste like something took hours and.... it's better if you try it yourself ^^

Black Pepper Pork

Ingredients:
200 gr slices pork tenderloin
100 gr celery (small bowl of celery)
1 tbs soy sauce
1 tbs minced garlic
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 tsp white pepper
1-2 tsp black pepper
1 tsp tapioca/ corn flour
1 tsp sesame oil
2 tbs vegetable oil

How to prepare:
marinade pork with soy sauce, salt, white pepper and flour for couple hours.
Heat up oil, stir fry garlic with the meat until done. move it to the bowl,add sesame oil.
Fry celery with oil for awhile, then put the pork in and add seasoning and black pepper, than fry for few more second and done.

Chinese Steak

2007-10-19T00:14:00.000-05:00

Another heartwarming dish to be enjoyed together with family. It's called "Chinese steak", from the name itself you know it's steak.. but it's from China.. How is it taste like? try it yourself... :D (cited from one of my favorite recipe site resepkita.com). Today, I made this dish based on the recipe posted on resepkita, but it's looks plain so I made some improvement on the ingredients. Enjoy~~

Chinese Steak

Ingredients:
300 gram thin slice beef
200 gram beansprout
2-3 carrot
1 tbs rice wine
1 tbs sugar
1 tbs soy sauce
3 tsp sesame oil
5 tbs vegetable oil
1 tbs minced garlic

How to prepare:
Marinade meats with rice wine, sugar, soy sauce, and sesame oil.
Heat oil, stir fry garlic until smell good than add the marinated meats.
When the meat is well done, move the meat to the plate and left the sauce in the pan.
Add bean sprout, carrot and stir fry for awhile. add white pepper and green onion and mix it well. Put on the top of the meat and ready to serve.

Lemon and Pandan Pound cake

2007-10-18T02:04:00.000-05:00

I found the idea of making pound cake when I was doing grocery. At baking aisle, I saw one of the cake mix box there's simple recipe to make pound cake. So, I decided to make lemon pound cake base on the recipe. The cake mix that I use is Duncan Hines moist deluxe brand ( some adjustment will be needed if different brand is used). Apart from that, my brother is craving for pandan pound cake. So I manage to twist the recipe and come out with an idea of adding pandan essens into yellow butter cake mix and .. tadahh... pandan cake is done. hi hi hi.... well at least looks like it and taste like pandan cake :p

Lemon Pound Cake

Ingredients:
1 package Duncan Hines moist deluxe "Lemon Supreme" cake mix
1 package (3.4 ox) lemon instant pudding and pie filling mix
4 large eggs
1 cup of water
1/3 cup of vegetable oil

How to prepare:
Combine cake mix, pudding mix, eggs, water, and oil in a large bowl.
Start beat with medium speed electric mixer than gradually change to higher speed until all of them mix well and soft.
Pour on the pan or tube pan that already sprayed with non-stick baking spray.
Put it inside the preheated 350 degree Fahrenheit for 50-60 minutes or until toothpick inserted in the center come out dry and clean.

Pandan pound cake

Ingredients:
1 package Duncan Hines moist deluxe "yellow butter" cake mix
1 package (3.4 ox) vanilla instant pudding and pie filling mix
4 large eggs
1 cup of water
1/3 cup of vegetable oil
2 drop of pandan essens

How to prepare:
Combine cake mix, pudding mix, eggs, water, and oil in a large bowl.
Start beat with medium speed electric mixer than gradually change to higher speed until all of them mix well and soft. add 2 drop of pandan essens and mix well.
Pour on the pan or tube pan that already sprayed with non-stick baking spray.
Put it inside the preheated 350 degree Fahrenheit for 50-60 minutes or until toothpick inserted in the center come out dry and clean.

P.S. This cake mix brand might only can be found in United States. So, if you couldn't find it anywhere than I am apologizing for the inconvenient... but surely if you are in U.S. you'll find this very easy. (^o^)/

Bakso

2007-10-07T19:53:00.000-05:00

Beef meat balls also called bakso is Indonesian street food vendor dish. You can get this dish with only $0.50, it's cheap? oh yeah... even though it's not hygienist but what the heck.. It's delicious and irresistible. In addition, they also have their special rooster imprint trade mark bowl. It's not because they are proud of Indonesian chicken, but it's the most inexpensive type of dishware any Indonesian street food vendor could ever use because it came free with every purchase of a particular brand of food seasoning... Ha ha ha. So, if you like to try you can make it yourself at home and it's more hygienist. :p

Bakso

Ingredients:
1/2 lb Beef
rice noodle/ egg noodle
20 beef meat balls
2 carrots
5-8 deep fried firm tofu
1/4 tsp nutmeg (pala in Indonesian)
1 Chinese cinammon stick (Kayu manis in Indonesian)
5 cloves (cengkeh in Indonesian)
Little bit fish sauce
salt, white pepper, beef stock (adjustable according to how much water)

Optional toppings:
Fried garlic
Chinese parsley / green onion
Lime
Sweet soy sauce
Hot chilly sauce (Sambal)

How to prepare:
Boil beef meat with beef stock (beef broth) until it soft, add meat balls, carrots, cinnamon stick, nutmeg, cloves, salt and pepper. When it done, add deep fried firm tofu in it. Serve with thin rice noodle or egg noodle with any combination of the optional toppings.

Spaghetti Napolitan

2007-10-03T22:00:00.000-05:00

Bored of Spaghetti bolognas or other Italian style spaghetti? Spaghetti Napolitan is an Italian Japanese non-traditional style dish. Variation of vegetable and little bit of ham/seafood adds fiber, flavor, and interesting color to a pasta dish.

Spaghetti Napolitan

Ingredients (4 servings):
100g / 3.5 oz spaghetti
Small handful of thin sliced black fungus or Hijiki (Japanese seaweed)
1 red pepper
1 green or yellow pepper
1 carrot
1 small onion
1 clove garlic (minced)
120 gr/ 4 oz thin sliced ham or shrimp
1-2 small tomatoes
2 tbs tomato sauce
1 tbs Worcestershire sauce
1 tbs vegetable oil/ olive oil
salt and pepper

How to prepare:
soak black fungus/ hijiki until soft, drain and rinse.
Heat up a pot of water to boil pasta.
Heat up a oil in sauté pan and stir fry garlic, onion, vegetables, tomato, and ham/ shrimp. Simmer until the vegetable are soft, add tomato and Worcestershire sauce. Season if needed with salt and pepper.
Drain pasta and add to the pan, mix it finely. Serve immediately, optionally topped with some freshly grated Parmesan cheese.

Thin Rice Noodle in Gravy

2007-09-30T15:50:00.000-05:00

Thin rice noodle in gravy or Hor fun or Kwetiaw siram... I have a lot of fun preparing this delightful dish. Don't be fooled by the look of this simple dish though cause it requires a lot of preparation. but, Once all the ingredients are prepared, cooking it can be done in a jiffy. Two things that you have to do to prepare this dish.. first is frying the thin rice noodle, then make the gravy. ^^

Rice Noodle in gravy

Step 1: Fried rice noodle

Ingredients:
100 gr thin rice noodle or kwetiaw
1 tbs vegetable oil
1 tbs minced garlic
2 tbs cooking wine / rice wine
1 tbs oyster sauce
1 tbs dark soy sauce
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp white pepper
some bok choi/ yu choy
How to prepare:
Heat up vegetable oil, stir fry garlic until smell good. add rice noodle, vegetable, chicken stock, cooking wine, oyster sauce, soy sauce, salt, and pepper (you may a little water if it too dry). mix it well.

Step 2: Gravy

Ingredients:
1-2 eggs
75 gr beef/ chicken/ shrimp/ squid
150 cc chicken broth/ water mix with chicken stock
50 gr maizena/ tapioca flour
1 tbs vegetable oil
salt and pepper
How to prepare:
Heat up oil, stir fry the meat until done. add mixed maizena/ tapioca flour with chicken broth, salt and pepper. boil until the water become gravy. Off the stove, add eggs and stir it around (don't boil it, if you do.. bad thing will happen and you won't like it Hehe) and pour on the fried rice noodle that already cooked previously.

Nasi Kuning (Yellow Rice)

2007-09-29T14:56:00.000-05:00

Yellow rice, also called "nasi kuning", is Indonesian typical rice. The rice cook with turmeric, coconut milk, and spices is another variation from plain rice. Normally served with different kind of sides such as satay, perkedel (potato patties), rendang, curry, eggs, fried chicken, and more. In Indonesian tradition yellow rice color represent fortune, wealthy, and honorable moral. That's why mostly yellow rice is serve on special occasion and happy event (Birthday, engagement, and wedding). Well... that's all for the story.. now I'm making this for my own special event.. which is to satisfied my tummy :p

Nasi kuning

Ingredients:
1/2 pounds jasmine rice
3/4 tsp turmeric
1/2 tsp galangal (laos) poweder
2 bay leaves
1 1/4 cup coconut milk

How to prepare:
Place rice in rice cooker and pour the boiled turmeric, galangal powder, bay leaves, and coconut milk mixed with some water, just like cooking normal rice.

Other options:
To make your life easier, there are also instant nasi kuning available from Asian store. I will recommend Munik, indofood, and kokita brands. All you need to do just mix the ingredients with rice and water (maybe some may need additional coconut milk). Hehehe as easy as ABC.

Ice Cream Sandwich

2007-09-27T14:56:00.000-05:00

Here I am with my new Ice Cream Sandwich molds from Carol L. Jamison... Thanks Carol "bule" ^^ Last week she got me a cute piggy and moo-moo ice cream sandwich molds, that's turn on my desire to start baking again. So I manage to get my favorite ice cream and a ready made cookie dough in supermarket then start to bake it.
If you want to make your own cookie dough you can do that to, it's pretty easy and you can modify it yourself.

Soft Chocolate chip cookies

INGREDIENTS:

8 ounces butter
1 cup granulated sugar
1 cup brown sugar, packed
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 cups flour
2 1/2 cups rolled oats
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 package (12 ounces) semisweet chocolate chips
4 ounce bar milk chocolate, grated
1 1/2 cups chopped pecans, optional

PREPARATION:

In a large mixing bowl with hand-held electric mixer, cream together the butter and sugars. Add eggs and vanilla, beating well. In a separate container, mix together flour, oats, salt, baking powder and baking soda.
Place small amounts of dry mixture into blender or food processor and process until mixture turns into powder.

Mix the creamed mixture with the flour and oat mixture until just blended. Add chocolate chips, grated milk chocolate and chopped pecans, if using. Shape dough into balls about 1 1/2 inches in diameter, and place two inches apart on non greased baking sheet. Bake at 375° for 10 to 12 minutes. Makes three to four dozen soft chocolate chip cookies. (http://southernfood.about.com/od/chocchipcookies/r/blcc92.htm)

Ice Cream Sandwich

Here's some instruction for Ice Cream Sandwich assembly:

Choose your favorite cookie dough. When choosing a recipe, keep in mind that soft, chewy cookies work best.
After mixing the dough, spread it evenly on a cookie sheet to approximately 1/8 to 1/4 inch thick.
Bake dough according to recipe, then allow the cookies to cool for 3 to 5 minutes, or until just warm. Use the cookie sleeve to cut desired shapes. remember to cut two cookies for each sandwich. Do not let the cookies cool completely before cutting. After cut, allow cookies to cool normally on a cooling rack.
Slide a cooled cookie to the bottom of the sleeve so that it rests in the base. Snap the cookie sleeve into its corresponding base.
Place one scoop of ice cream into the sleeve and on top of the cookie. Place a second cookie of the same shape on top of the ice cream and press down.
Remove the base form the mold. Use your thumbs to push complete ice cream sandwich out. Serve ice cream sandwiches immediately, or wrap them and place them in the freezer to serve later.

P.S. If you are wondering where you can get the Ice Cream Sandwich Molds.. you can find it in Walmart, Williams-sonoma, Amazon.com and more.

Yu choy and Iceberg lettuce

2007-09-24T23:34:00.001-05:00

All this time I've been posting main dishes, desserts, and appetizers. Now I'm gonna post some vegetable side dishes.
First I'm gonna introduce Yu Choy, Chinese flowering vegetable, has fairly thick but tender stalks and yellow flowers. It is easy to confuse Chinese broccoli and Yu choy since they look similar. The two main distinguishing features are Yu choy has yellow flowers (Chinese broccoli has white flowers) and Yu choy has a thinner stem. Yu Choy is heat tolerant but not cold tolerant. So it's very good to have for a side dish and eat with plain rice.

Next, is Iceberg lettuce. you can fine this easily in the market, it's the best enjoyed when it fresh and crisp. This food is low in Sodium, and very low in Saturated Fat and Cholesterol. It is also a good source of Thiamin, Vitamin B6, Iron and Potassium, and a very good source of Dietary Fiber, Vitamin A, Vitamin C, Vitamin K, Folate and Manganese (www.nutritiondata.com). Every time I saw this veggie it reminds me to Jin-jin (Anita's rabbit), I used to buy this to feed him Hehehe.. however, last week I went to my friend's place, she cook this veggie and it turn out very nice. She cook it on the non stick pan until soft without oil but still crispy when you bite it.

Yu Choy

Ingredients:
Yu choy
Beef/ chicken/ shrimp/ squid (optional)
1 tbs minced garlic
2 tbs oyster sauce
1/2 tsp Salt
1 tsp Chicken stock
2 tbs vegetable oil

How to:
Clean yu choi and cut into 3-4 inch long. Heat up oil and stir fry minced garlic, add meat and cook until done. Add Yu choy, oyster sauce, salt, chicken stock and little bit water then cook it until done.

Iceberg lettuce with fried onion

Ingredients:
1/2 Iceberg Lettuce
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 tsp chicken stock
1 tbs soy sauce/ oyster sauce
1-2 tbs fried shallots

How to:
heat up non stick pan and put iceberg lettuce, add 1 tbs water, soy sauce or oyster sauce, salt, chicken stock then cook it until soft. when it done sprinkle some fried shallots on top and ready to serve

Steam Egg with Ebi

2007-09-21T14:14:00.000-05:00

Another 15 minutes simple yet nutritious dish.Steam Egg with Ebi

Ingredients:
2 eggs
2 cups water
1 tbs tung choi/ preserved vegetable
1 tsp chicken stock
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp white pepper
6-8 tbs Ebi cut into small pieces (dried salted shrimp)
Chinese parsley
vegetable oil

How to prepare:
Stir fry Ebi with 1-2 tbs oil until it crispy.
Heat up water in steamer. beaten 2 eggs, add water, preserved vegetable, salt and chicken stock, white pepper and mix it well . than put in hot steamer and steam it for 8-10 minutes.
When it done, sprinkle fried Ebi and Chinese parsley on the top of the steamed egg.

Bulgogi

2007-09-17T01:52:00.000-05:00

When I heard about Korea, first thing that I came into my mind is the food. Korean popular grill gourmet, Bulgogi is my next yummy yummy dish. It's Like US's steak BBQ, but the marinated meat is grilled on flat pan, and enjoy with rice, and kimchi (Korean preserved Napa cabbage).

Bulgogi

Ingredients:
200 gr Pork/ beef slices and beaten
1 tbs cooking wine
3 tbs dark soy sauce
2 tbs sugar
1 tsp black pepper
1/2 onion, sliced
1 piece green onion cut into 2 inches
2 tbs sesame oil
2 tbs minced garlic

How to prepare:
Marinade sliced pork/ beef with dark soy sauce, sugar, black pepper, sesamme oil for 30 minutes.
Heat up margarine, cook marinated meat until half done then add onion, and green onion then cook until done. sprinkle some sesame seeds.

Bakmi Ayam Jamur GM

2007-09-16T20:48:00.000-05:00

Bakmi Ayam Jamur GM known as "Chicken Mushroom Noodle". GM stand for Gajah Mada, it's the name of Indonesian Historical kingdom. I'm don't really know how they come out with this name.. but I guess it's because they open the restaurant at the Gajah Mada street, so they call it GM chicken mushroom noodle.

Bakmi Ayam Jamur GM

Noodle Ingredients:
Egg noodle
1 tbs soy sauce / per bowl
2 tbs vegetable oil /per bowl
green onion
Bok choi

Chicken Mushroom Ingredients:
1 Chicken breast fillet, cut into small piece
2 tbs sweet soy sauce
2 tbs oyster sauce
1/2 can of mushroom
1 tbs sugar
1 tbs soy sauce
1/2 tsp salt
2 tbs minced garlic
2 tbs vegetable oil
100 ml water

Soup Ingredients: (mix everything and boil)
Pork/ beef/ fish balls or dumplings.
Fried minced garlic
150 ml water
green onion
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp chicken stock
white pepper

How to Prepare:
First we make the Chicken mushroom. Heat up oil, stir fry garlic until smell good. Add chicken and all sauces, cook until chicken done. than add mushroom and water (you may add quail egg too ^^ [optional]) , cook until it's half dry. (we can use the chicken liquid to give more taste on the noodle later on).
Heat up water, to boil noodle and vegetable. when the noodle done. mix it with soy sauce and vegetable oil. put vegetable on top of noodle then put the chicken mushroom and sprinkle some green onion.

Salted Soybean Frog Legs

2007-09-15T19:42:00.000-05:00

Salted Soybean Frog Legs

La la La .. Froggie Froggiee legs yummy yummy.. For some of you, it may sounds yucky.. but don't skip it until you try it.

Ingredients:
20 Frog legs
6-8 thin slice ginger
green onion
1 tbs salted soy bean
2 tbs cooking wine
1 tbs minced garlic
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp chicken stock

How to make:
Clean the frog legs, marinade with soy sauce, salt and chicken stock.
Heat up oil, stir fry minced garlic and ginger until smell good.
Add marinated frog legs, salted soy bean and cooking wine.
when it almost done add green onion cut into about 2 inches and mix it around. Tadah~~ done done.

Sukiyaki

2007-09-15T00:15:00.000-05:00

Here's another Japanese hot pot dish.. It called Sukiyaki. The joy of having sukiyaki is eating together with family or friends.. you put the pot in the middle of table with raw ingredient around it.. whenever you want to eat it you just deep it into boiling soup..

Sukiyaki

To make the soup:
Water
salt
fish sauce
sukiyaki sauce (Kikoman brand)
Chicken stock

Possible ingredients:
Slice chicken, pork, beef, fish
Squid, prawn, clam, kani (crab imitation)
Meat/fish/shrimp balls
Enoki, Bamboo, Shitake Mushrooms
Napa Cabbage, baby Bok Choi
Egg, Tofu
Noodle/ Vermicelli rice noodle

To Prepare:
Very easy.. just mix everything for the soup.. and adjust the seasoning. all ingredient is cut and ready to boil. Normally I put all meat in the pot to boil first to get the sweet taste, then add whatever you like to eat in the pot and you can enjoy when it's hot.

Chicken Soto

2007-09-11T19:46:00.000-05:00

Full of flavors and texture soup, Chicken Soto is elegant for dinner and also party. There are many types of Soto, such as Soto Kudus, Soto Banjar, Soto Madura and more.. each area have their own specialty.

Soto Ayam

Ingredients:
- 1/2 lb Chicken breast
- 4 Eggs
- 1 potato
- 1-2 glass noodle (vermicelli)
- 1 bowl Been sprout
- 1 Tomato
- Green onion / Chinese Parsley
- Fried onion

Powdered Ingredients : (In Asian store you can get all this in a glass can with everything mixed)
- Onion Powder
- Garlic Powder
- Ginger Powder
- Paprika Powder
- Turmeric Powder
- Galangal Powder (ginger root)
- Chili Powder or Cayenne pepper Powder
- Indian Bay leaf
- Lemon Grass

How To:
Boil Chicken until done, then peal the meat into small pieces. boil whole egg until done. boil potatoes, bean sprout, and glass noodle all separately.
To make the soup boil water add about two spoon of powdered ingredients, salt and chicken stock.
To serve put glass noodle, pealed chicken, sliced tomato, potato, bean sprout, and slice egg. pour hot boiled soup on the top and sprinkle some green onion/ Chinese parsley and fried onion.

You also can have it with sweet soy sauce, squeezed lime juice, chili sauce. ^^

Sushi

2007-09-09T20:02:00.000-05:00

Nowadays a lot of people like to eat sushi and there are many variations of sushi type. Today, I want to guide you to make two basic types of sushi, one is called Nigiri sushi and the other one is called Maki sushi. Nigiri sushi is vinegared rice hand-formed into oval shapes and topped with various raw and cooked seafood, and Maki sushi is vinegared rice combined with various raw and cooked seafood and vegetables then wrapped with Nori. Hmmm... What is Nori??? Nori is thin sheets of toasted seaweed. There's one more important thing that you need to have to make Nigiri sushi. you will need Makisu, It's a bamboo mat to roll the sushi in. Haha Interesting??? well it worth your hard work.. and you will enjoy it just like what you have in Japanese restaurant. Ganbatte ne~

Sushi

Ingredients: (for 2 people)
1 cup of japanese rice
2 cup of water
1 1/2 tbs rice vinegar
1 1/2 tbs sugar (caster)
1/2 tsp salt
4 sheets nori (toasted seaweed)

Sushi Topping (Neta):
- Smooked salmon
- Cooked shrimp
- Unagi (eel)
- Crab
- Very fresh tuna or salmon
- Tofu
- Egg (make into omelete)
- Toasted sesame seeds
- Cucumber
- preserved radish
- Avocado, and more

How to make rice (Shari):
Cook 1 cup of rice with 2 cups of water, when it done. let it cool down for 10-15 minutes, than mix it with vinegar, sugar, salt. To cool and remove the moisture of the rice well, use a fan as you mix sushi rice. This will give sushi rice a shiny look.

How to make Maki-Sushi:
Use Makisu (bamboo mat) to roll sushi.
- First put nori on the top of Makisu.
- Than spread around thin layer rice on top of nori.
- Place long thin strip of cucumber and preserved radish. (you can add anything from variation list)
- Slowly lift makisu in order to roll it while keeping nori steady.
- Make sure both side are even and roll it upward.
- And cut it evenly.

How to make Nigiri-Sushi:
- Slice up some sushi topping/ Neta (salmon, unagi, crab, etc)
- Wet both hands well with vinegar, then take some Shari in your right hand and squeeze the Shari to make it oblong and bite-sized.
- Place the Neta in your left hand; it should rest on the second joint of your fingers.
- While holding the Shari in your right hand, put a bit of Wasabi on the top-side of the Neta.
- Place the Shari on top of the Neta (on top of the wasabi), then press the top of Shari with left thumb gently, and also make a dent on the sides with right fingers.
- Press it together one more time and then you are finished. The Shari part should be in the shape of the bottom of a boat.

Perkedel

2007-09-07T00:14:00.000-05:00

In Indonesia, we our own patties hehe we call it Perkedel, not crabby patties, which is mainly made of potatoes and meat. It's yummy yummy food ... can be main dish or side dish.. and also compatible with western food too. Hmmm Interesting~

Perkedel

Ingredient:
3 slices of smashed garlics
2 whole thin sliced shallots
1/2 tea spoon white pepper
1/2 tea spoon nutmeg
1 tea spoon salt
400 gram potatos
100 gram minced chicken/beef/pork
1 egg yolk
1 egg white
vegetable oil

How to:
slice potato about 2 cm and deep fried until it turn brown. separately, with 1-2 spoon of oil, stir fry garlic and shallot with white pepper, nutmeg, and salt. Stir fry chicken/ beef/ pork and stir to break up clumps, fry until meat is no longer red, about 2 minutes. Smash the fried potato, add cooked mince meat, fried garlic & shallot and egg yolk than mix well.
with your hand take about 2 spoonful of mixed potato and make it like a ball and squeeze it.
before you deep fried it again. deep the whole squeezed potato into egg white and fry it until it turn brownish.

Agar Cake

2007-09-03T20:18:00.000-05:00

My 1st cake... Agar cake, one of my favorite cake that my mom used to made for me and now I have to make it all by myself. It turn out pretty good after 2nd time making it. After several request from friends, I manage to write out the recipe... and here it is~!

Agar cake

cake Ingredients:
Option 1:
14 egg yolk
2 white part of egg
175 gr Butter
175 gr sugar
40 gr corn / maizena flour
80 gr wheat flour
1 1/2 table spoon water
1 tablespoon brandy / wishky
1 tablespoon sweet condensed milk
Option 2:
Yellow butter cake mix (packaged)
3 eggs
1 stick Butter
4 1/4 cups of water

Agar Ingredients:
3 swallow agar agar
800 cc water
300 cc white egg
300 gr sugar
3 table spoon sweet condensed milk
1 table spoon brandy
1 table spoon essen (red or green)/ pandan coloring

How to make Cake:
- Using Option 1:
Using mixer, mix egg yolk with both flour and butter until smooth.
keep mixing, add sugar, egg white, brandy/ wishky, and sweet condensed milk.
mix it well and smooth.
- Using Option 2:
Using mixer, Mix all ingredient listed until smooth (approximately 15 minutes).
* Baking Instruction:
Heat up ove up to 325 Degree Fahrenheit for metal pan or 300 degree Fahrenheit for glass pan (Pirex).
Use non-stick baking spray on the 2 baking pan.
Pour the well mix cake on both pan equally and bake for about 35-37 minutes.

How to make Agar sponge:
Using mixer mix egg white only until it get spongy (about 15 minutes). Add sugar and mix it well.
Saparetly, boil water mix with agar powder, condensed milk, brandy/wishky, essen.
keep mixing the egg white, add the boiled agar little by little and mix it well for awhile.

Combining Both Cake and agar:
using slightly bigger pan. pour a layer agar sponge on the botom and put one layer of cake, than pour agar sponge again, than cake, and lastly the rest of agar sponge.
Keep it for awhile until it get's cold than save it in fridge.

Sapo Tofu

2007-08-30T14:08:00.000-05:00

Another variation Chinese Dish, called Sapo Tofu. It's combination meat, seafood, vegetable, and tofu in hot clay pot. yumm yummm..

Sapo Tofu

Possible Ingredients:
pork thin sliced
beef thin sliced
chicken thin sliced
shrimp
squid/octopus
fish
carrot thin sliced
bok choi
broccoli
red/ green pepper
fish balls sliced
soft tofu cut in cube(Deep fried)
Leek
green onion
shitake mushroom

seasoning:
1 tbs minced garlic
2 tbs Soy sauce
2 tbs Oyster sauce
1/4 tsp salt
1/5 tsp white pepper
1/2 tbs chicken stock
1/2 tbs tapioca starch mix with water

How to Prepare:
Deep fried diced soft tofu.
Stir fry garlic, when it turn brown add meat(chicken, pork, beef). add soy sauce oyster sauce mix it around. add all those vegetable that took longer to be soften first such as carrot, broccoli, etc.. add tapioca starch mix with water, salt , pepper, chicken stock. cook for awhile than add the rest.. and cook it until done. lastly add the fried tofu.
You can serve it in hot clay pot (if you have it) to preserve the heat.

P.S. I would like to give credit to Anita Tsun and Era Jayanti for providing such a lovely Clay pot, plates, Takoyaki pan, baking pan, and all those cooking stuff and nice nice recipes.. Thank you ^^

Grilled Oyster Sauce Chicken

2007-08-29T00:07:00.000-05:00

Here's another multi-culture dish that I made. You can do it in Indonesian way or western way. In Indonesian way, you eat it with rice and omelet. In western way, you can eat with mash potato and mix vegetable. It's very simple, you can pre-cook it in advance and just oven it for 10 minutes when you want to eat.

Grilled Oyster Sauce Chicken

Ingredients:
- 8 chicken drumstick
- 1/2 cup oyster sauce
- 1/4 cup sweet soy sauce
- 1/4 onion sliced
- 2 table spoon minced garlic

How to:
stir fry garlic and onion than add drumstick, oyster sauce and sweet soy sauce. mix it for a while than add water. boil it until it almost dry (for drumstick it might take longer to cook so that it well done). after that, put it in oven for 10 minutes. tadah~ done. you may splash some lime juice on it too if you like.

P.S. It's easy to make, you can prepare it in advance and you just put it in oven when you are ready to eat.

Puyunghai

2007-08-28T23:18:00.000-05:00

Puyunghai originally came from china, it's an duck egg omelet mixed with flour, carrot, green onion, shrimp, crab and than poured with sauce. Hehehe now I'm going to show you Indonesian-ized version.

Puyunghai

Ingredients:
- 1 small can of crab meat
- a handful of frozen carrot
- 1/2 yellow onion diced
- green onion
- garlic
- 6 eggs (chicken egg is fine too)
- 5 oz shrimp, peeled and chopped

Sauce:
- 4 tbs tomato sauce
- 1/2 cup of water
- 1/2 tbs minced garlic
- 1 tsp of tapioca starch
- 1/4 yellow onion sliced
- frozen vegetables carrot and pea
- 2 tbs sugar

How to make:
1. Eggs. Stir fry garlic, onion, carrot than add crab meat, salt, pepper, diced prawn, green onion. mix it well, than add tapioca starch. put it in the bowl and mix it with eggs. To fry the egg you will need more oil than usual.. so that the egg is deep fried.
2. Sauce. Stir fry garlic, than add onion and frozen vegetable. add tomato sauce, water mix with tapioca starch, sugar. (It's like making sweet and sour sauce)

:) yummy

Hot Spicy Prawn

2007-08-26T21:14:00.000-05:00

Here's another cute exotic seafood dish.. it's called Sambal Udang which means Hot spicy prawn. Enjoy it with rice or vegetable to satisfy your hunger. if there's no Big prawn... small prawn, any type of prawn are still good to have.

Hot Spicy Prawn (sambal udang)

Ingredients:
2 lbs. Prawn
3 table spoon lime juice
4 table spoon hot sauce
2 table spoon tomato sauce
1 tea spoon white pepper
1 tea spoon salt
75 ml water
1 table spoon sugar
vegetable oil
1 tomato diced
1 tea spoon of sliced green onion / Chinese parsley (garnish, optional)

Powdered ingredient:
6 shallot, minced
2 spoon garlic, minced
5 chilly, minced
1 tea spoon shrimp paste
1/2 tomato

How to prepare:
Marinade prawn with lime for 15 minutes and rinse after that.
stir fry all the powdered ingredients with 2 table spoon vegetable oil.
add water, salt, pepper, sugar, hot sauce, tomato sauce and mix it finely.
add prawn and mix it until the water dry out or little sauce left in it.
Serve it on plate and sprinkle some green onion or Chinese parsley.

Bak Kut Teh

2007-08-25T01:28:00.003-05:00

Weather is getting colder in United States.. we need to warm up our body... Bak kut teh will do.. you can have this with plain rice or chicken rice and stir fry Baby Bok Choi... hmm yummy.. or you also can eat it with char kwe if you have it. Hahahaaa...

Bak Kut Teh

Ingredients:
1 1/2 pound pork spare rib or pork meat, chopped into small pieces
1 whole garlic, unpeeled
*2 inch ginseng root, peeled, slightly crushed
*3 cinnamon sticks
*5 star anise
*1 table spoon white peppercorns
*1 table spoon black peppercorns
2 table spoon light soysauce
5 dried shitake mushrooms
salt
pepper

How to prepare:
deep shitake mushrooms inside hot water, when it soft and slice it.
in pan, boil pork spare rib until raised to surface. than rinse with cold water.
In claypot/pan, add preboiled pork spare rib, garlic, ginseng root, shitake mushroom, salt and pepper.
->wrap cinnamon, star anise, white and black peppercorns in cheesecloth, tie with string and add to the claypot. (this part you can get package version in Asian store where all the ingredient is included, If you decide to get the package one you don't need to prepare the ingredient that I put "*" sign)
when it boil, lower down the heat to medium low and slow cook for 1-2 hours. discard the spice bag, and add light soy sauce.

Sour Mustard Chicken or Pork

2007-08-22T17:44:00.000-05:00

Hey dee hoo... Here I am again with a request from one of my friend for my home style dish... This is another sourly dish, It's called Sour Mustard Chicken/pork. I have nothing to say about this dish, taste so good and yet one of my favorite.

Sour Mustard Chicken/Pork

Ingredients:
1.5 lbs Chicken or Pork.
1 small bowl of Sour Mustard.
3 spoon dark soy sauce.
2 spoon Cooking wine.
2 spoon sugar.
1/4 teaspoon salt.
1 inch ginger.
1 spoon diced garlic.
1/2 spoon tapioca starch/ corn starch.
2 spoon vegetable oil.

How to:
Thin slice chicken or pork. Marinade chicken or pork with soy sauce, salt, and starch.
Rinse and thin slice sour mustard. Marinade with sugar.
Heat up oil, add garlic and ginger. stir fry for few second than add the marinated chicken or pork. you may add more soy sauce to make it darker. Cook it till the meat done than add sour mustard and cooking wine. add a little water and cook it till done.

Tropical Cold Honeydew

2007-08-20T21:50:00.001-05:00

Hot weather.. What else do you want to do?.. give yourself nice treat, a cup of sweet dessert cold, sweet, superbly ripe honeydew with tapioca seeds. What a heaven.. refreshing and energizing your body with such a good dessert. Summer is a time to enjoy the excitement of longer days and outdoor activities. Summer desserts fit into this lifestyle perfectly. They can be quick to prepare, fun to eat and good for you. I would like to give credit to a friend of mine, Anita Tsun, who taught me how to make this superb "Tropical Cold Honeydew" desserts. I have no idea where this dish come from and how it invented.. but who cares anyway, when it's yummy.. Hahaha Well.., Here you go~ and enjoy~

Tropical Cold Honeydew

Ingredients:
1.5 can of coconut milk
1 cup of sugar
1 cup of tapioca seeds
1 whole honeydew

How to:
Boil tapioca seeds with 1 cup of water until the seed turn transparent.
put 1.5 can of coconut milk in container and add water using the coconut milk can (2 cans).
add melted sugar (sugar mix with little hot water) in the container.
cube dice the honeydew.
Mix everything in the container and let it cold.. put in frezer.
Add ice or shredded ice while serving.

Kwe Kia Theng

2007-08-16T20:30:00.000-05:00

It's rainy day, best food to have is soup dish... Hehe I'm Pontianak people, but all things that I remember about Pontianak is only foods Hehe I feel so ashame.. well... I moved to Jakarta when I was 3 year-old, so I can't remember much other than Teochew language and the food. Another good dish from Pontianak (West Borneo) is Kwe Kia theng. It's Rice Noodle in Soya Sauce Soup with Pork, skin, liver, tongue, ear and intestines. Ewwww grossss ??? HAHAHA well .. all those stomach ingredient is optional you doesn't have to eat it :p but Trust me, It's good.. beside that.. we use different type of kwe tiaw (rice noodle), it's square thin slice of rice noodle about 1x1 inches. so, try it~

Kwe Kia Theng

Ingredients:
Pork (rib)
skin, liver, tongue, ear and intestines (optional)
Eggs
2 spoon Sugar
2 spoon dark soy sauce
1 cloves diced garlic
1/4 star anise
1 small slice of turmeric
Chinese 5 spice powder

How to:
marinade pork, intestine, tongue, skin, stomach with chicken/pork stock and Chinese 5 spice. Hard boil the eggs and peal of the shell.
heat up 4 spoon of oils and sugar until it turn brown. add sliced the garlic, turmeric, star anise, soy sauce and stir it. Add marinated pork stir fry for awhile and add a bowlful of water and eggs than slow cook it for an hour. (you may add more water, and adjust it with sugar, soy sauce)

P.S. you will find out that is similar to soy sauce eggs (lou neng) .. Yes it is similar, only it's more soupy where you add more water in it and with more ingredients (tongue, skin, stomach, liver, etc). So if you already made soy sauce eggs, it will be easier to modify the dish.. just add chicken/pork broth or water with salt and pork stock.

Khuntien Mix Rice

2007-08-15T23:19:00.000-05:00

Here another Kalimantan dish, Mix Chicken rice also called Khuntien Koi Peng (Khuntien Chicken rice). Originated from west borneo island or west Kalimantan. My home .. hometown hehe..
What's the different Khuntien chicken rice with other chicken rice.. well there are a lot of differences.. It's not an ordinary chicken rice, there are rice, BBQ pork (char siu), sweet sauce chicken, Chinese pork sausage (lap cheong), soy sauce eggs, sour mustard, and creamy chicken broth. Wow.. so many combination and all have to be done seperately.. well that's why we call it mix rice HAHa...
If you follow my recipes .. you already know how to make BBQ pork or Char siu (from Wonton Noodle section) and Soy sauce eggs(from Hainam chicken rice section).

Khuntien Koi Peng

Sweet Chicken:
10 Chicken wings
4 spoon sweet soy sauce
1/2 teaspoon Salt
1/4 teaspoon tapioca starch
oil
How to:
Marinade chicken wings with sweet soy sauce, chicken stock, salt, little bit of tapioca starch for couple hours. Stir fry with marinated chicken with oils. add little water until almost dry. (add more water if the wings not done).

Creamy soup:
Chicken + chicken stock + salt or chicken broth.
tapioca starch.
How to:
mix tapioca starch to chicken/chicken bone, chicken stock, salt. or use chicken broth. and boil them .. the key is to make your soup creamy with the tapioca starch.

Lap Cheong:
you can buy this from Asian store and just grill it or put it in oven.

Mixing Everything:
Plain rice and put all ingredient on top.. spread the sauce from soy sauce egg and sweet chicken. lastly pour creamy soup on top. yummy...
oh ya. sour mustard.. you just rinse with hot water and slice into small piece and ready to be eaten.

Enjoy~

Soy Sauce Eggs and Hainam Chicken Rice

2007-08-15T22:23:00.000-05:00

Yummy yummy soy sauce eggs a.k.a telur kecap also called Lou neng (in Teochew) or.. ermm.. so many names for this dish.. I don't know which one anymore HAHAHA... This dish is compatible to any Chinese dishes, you can have it in Hainam Chicken rice, Mix rice, grill chicken, porridge and more..

Soy Sauce eggs

Ingredients:
10 Eggs
6-8 Chicken (drum sticks or tights)
5-6 spoon Sugar
5-6 spoon dark soy sauce
4 cloves garlic
1 star anise
2 small slice of turmeric
Chinese 5 spice powder

How to:
marinade chicken with chicken stock and Chinese 5 spice. Hard boil the eggs and peal of the shell.
heat up 4 spoon of oils and sugar until it turn brown. add sliced the garlic, turmeric, star anise, soy sauce and stir it. Add marinated chicken stir fry for awhile and add a bowlful of water and eggs than slow cook it for an hour. (you may add more water, and adjust it with sugar, soy sauce)

Here you go~... Here's one more tip.. shhh... the longer you keep in the fridge, the egg will taste even better... ^^

Alright... I know it's not fun if you only know how to make this dish and just eat it with plain rice.. well.. it good enough with plain rice.. but How about if you know Hainam chicken rice too HAHAHA Aren't you excited?

Hainam Chicken Rice

Hainam rice Ingredient:
4 cups Rice.
2 spoon sesame oil.
4 slice of ginger.
2 spoon diced garlic.
1/4 teaspoon white pepper.

Hainam Chicken Ingredient:
1/2 Chicken or 6 tights.
chicken stock.
salt.
3 spoon sesame oil.
4 spoon diced garlic
4 spoon oil.

How to:
Boil water and the chicken. add chicken stock and salt. When the Chicken is done take out the chicken and mix it with sesame oil and little salt and than cut it into pieces.. and add fried garlic on top. Keep the chicken broth for the rice.
To make the rice... stir fry diced garlic, ginger until the garlic turn to light brown add rice, white pepper and sesame oil. fry it for awhile.. after that put it into rice cooker and add chicken broth that you made earlier. just like cooking normal rice.

Alright.. now this is the hard part.. drum rolling..~~~ and drolling... what? wait for the rice to be done is the hard part.. you smell Hainam chicken rice.. but rice not done yet .. 20 more mins.. arghhhh... Hehehe I'm joking~ Have Fun (o.O)

Wonton Noodle

2007-08-11T23:45:00.000-05:00

Hi hii.. I'm back again. Today I'm gonna present popular Cantonese dish from Hong Kong and also can be found in Malaysia and Singapore, It's Wonton Noodle. There are two way to serve Wonton noodle (dried or soup)... Drolling. It's a meal made with roast pork(BBQ pork), wonton noodle, dumpling, Vegetable.

Wonton Noodle (Dried)

Recipes:
Thin noodle
Baby pok choi / kailan
Sauce:
vegetable oil 5 tsp
sesame oil 3 tsp
shallots 3 whole.
ginger 1 in.
salt 1 tsp
chicken stock 1/2 tsp
soy sauce thin 3 tsp
pepper 1/5 tsp
Char siu:
pork
spare ribs sauce or char siew sauce (Lee Kum Kee)
cloves garlic, finely chopped
dark soy sauce
sugar
rice wine
Wonton dumplings:
1/2 pound boneless lean pork
1/2 pound shelled and deveined medium shrimp
3 water chestnuts
2 slices ginger, or as needed to make 1 teaspoon
1 tablespoon oyster sauce
2 teaspoons soy sauce
1 tablespoon Chinese rice wine, dry sherry or rice vinegar
1 teaspoon granulated sugar
a few drops sesame oil
Freshly ground white pepper
Wonton wrappers

How to:
For Sauce.
2 tbsps oil and fry the sliced shallots and ginger until brown.
Add the stock, Salt, soy sauce, pepper and sesame oil
For Char siu (BBQ boneless pork).
Marinade Pork with all the ingredient for a night for best taste.
put in oven around 220+ for around 45 min .. turn the meat after 20 mins.
Wonton dumplings.
Finely chop the pork and shrimp. Peel the water chestnuts and finely chop. Mince the ginger until you have 1 teaspoon.
Combine the pork and shrimp with the water chestnuts, minced ginger, oyster sauce, soy sauce, rice wine or sherry or rice vinegar, sugar, sesame oil and white pepper. And than fill and wrap it to wonton wrapper.
Noodle and vegetable.
Boil hot water. put vegetable to be boil for awhile. and than you can use it again to boil the noodle. To serve.. put the sauce on the plate.. and put noodle on the top of that. After that you can decorate your food with Wonton, Char siu. lastly you can sprinkle some sliced green onion.

P.S. Complicated? Don't Worry.... There are a lot of Asian store that sell frozen wonton which you only need to boil it. Hehehe.. Hmm.. how about Char siu?? Well.. you can get it from Chinese restaurant. so all you need to do is boil noodle and vegetable .. and make the sauce.. As easy as ABC... ^^

おこのみやき (Okonomiyaki)

2007-08-08T02:45:00.000-05:00

Today, I would like to share Japanese style dish recipe. A friend of mine, かないくみ (Kanai Kumi), Invited me to her house for dinner and taught me how to made Okonomiyaki. Okonomiyaki is a pan-fried dish with various ingredients. It's a simple dish with cabbage (Chinese yam) in egg, flour batter as the base and than you can add whatever you want on it such as green onion, meat, bacon, octopus, squid, shrimp, vegetable, kimchi, mochi or cheese. In japan, Okonomiyaki is equivalent to combination pancake and pizza in United States.. It's very popular among Japanese. Well... We had a lot of fun that day and I learned a lot too.. thanks Kumi-chan.

Okonomiyaki

Ingredients:

2 cup all purpose flour
1 1/4 cup dashi soup stock or water
4-6 eggs
1 - 1 1/4 lb cabbage
6 tbsps chopped green onion

Toppings:
Ao-nori (green seaweed)
Okonomiyaki Sauce (or tonkatsu sauce)
Mayonnaise
Katsuo (Shaved benito)

All possible ingredient to put into/onto Okonomiyaki:
leek, green onion, sliced beef, sliced bacon, chicken, octopus, squid, prawn, tuna, mushroom, vegetable, kimchi, mochi, cheese, and more. Use your imagination ^^

Preparation:
Put dashi soup or water in a bowl. mix flour and eggs in the soup stock.
Chop cabbage into thin string (4mm) and green onion than add to the batter and mix it finely.
you also may add seafood, ground meat, mushroom, etc into the mix.

How to cook:
Fry the dough like pancake. before turning the okonomiyaki over, while it still soft you may put all ingredient on the top of it. for example sliced bacon or octopus. fry it for about 5-6 mins than flip it and fryfor another 5-6 mins.

To serve:
put the Okonomiyaki on the plate with the ingredient side on top. than spread the Okonomiyaki sauce and mayonaise. sprinkle seaweed, shaved benito. Tadahhhhh~ and get ready to eat.

Trust me .. It's fun to cook this dish .. and you can have it vegetarian too ~

Yam Mie

2007-08-07T02:21:00.000-05:00

Yelloww yelloww.... today I'm going to present my hometown style Pontianak noodle... we call it Yam Mie, with the extra soury taste from vinegar and crab meat made this dish become special. Some people also call it "Bakmi Kepiting" (crab noodle). In Pontianak (West Borneo), the most famous yam mie restaurant is belong to Mr. Oukie .. Oukie means mole.. Because the owner have very big mole on his face. Since they are very famous, his kids expand the restaurant to Jakarta. In Jakarta you can find it at Pangeran Jayakarta or Sunter. Since I love this dish so much and the recipe is top secret, My mom tried to imitate it and it taste 90% alike.

On the left is my Homemade style Yam Mie. On the right is the original Yam Mie. It Looks different because I did not put meat balls, and crab on it but the taste is still good even without those. ^^

Yam Mie

1 lb Minced pork
4-5 spoon soy sauce
2 spoon minced garlic
1/4 tea spoon white pepper
3 spoon dried preserved vegetable (Tung Choi)
vinegar (depends on how much sour you like it)
Fish balls
Crab Meat
Scallion
thin egg noodle

Here's the magic:
Stir fry minced garlic and minced pork, add soy sauce white pepper, Tung Choi, little water, some salt and chicken stock. make it a little soupy so that the sauce can give the noodle taste.
boil water, and cook the thin egg noodle. get the noodle without the soup and put it on bowl, add the cooked meat's sauce.. than add vinegar, than mix it evenly. put the meat, fish balls, crab meat on the top. serve with sliced scallion.

Hope you enjoy my hometown specialty~ peace.

チョコ　まりーやき (Choco Mariyaki)

2007-08-04T04:08:00.000-05:00

I got request from Pipi to post choco mariyaki.. It's actually I made this dish up by myself just for fun... It's very easy and no need to worry about messing up the ingredient.. It's basically using instant pancake and chocolate syrup. So As requested.. presenting Choco Mariyaki~

Choco Mariyaki

Ingredients:
Instant pancake mix
water
Chocolate syrup
margarine

Tools:
Takoyaki pan
2 satay stick

How to:
mix instant pancake with water (some brand need eggs.. so read the direction first). Heat up Takoyaki Plate with medium fire..put some margarine around the plate and pour the pancake mix on there and turn it around with satay stick or something similar.. you can fill it with chocolate too if u want too.

Chicken Kuluyuk

2007-08-03T00:25:00.000-05:00

Helo Helo~ Hm.. What should I have today huh.. How bout kuluyuk chicken? This is one superb Chinese-originated dish that so easy to make. sounds yummy? I call it Chicken kuluyuk.. which is basically like sweet and sour chicken.. The interesting part of this dish is the pineapple.. It's a fruit.. but you can eat it together with rice and chicken HAhaha.. but .. if you don't like pineapple.. DON'T WORRY.. you can substitute with longans, lychees, or mangoes .. Interesting enough? Hehe try it .. you won't regret~

Chicken Kuluyuk

Ingredients:
2 chicken breast (pork is fine too)
2 spoon soy sauce
2 spoon minced garlic
5o gram tapioca powder
1 can of diced pineapple
1 onion
1 egg
salt, sugar, pepper, tomato sauce

How to:
thin slice chicken breast than mix it with salt, chicken stock, soy sauce. you can keep for couple hours so that the taste will go inside the meat. deep the meat inside egg than tapioca powder it(will be more crunchy if you add tempura powder too) . and deep fried until turn to golden brown.

To make the sauce:
tomato sauce, chicken stock, sugar, add water mix with tapioca powder. lastly add sliced onion and pineapple.
p.s. the portion is my estimation.. so adjusting on the taste may needed when you think is not enough sweet or salty but for this dish .. the sauce should be sweet and sourly. Enjoy~ Y(^o^)Y

Soy sauce Steam Pork (Bak Cho)

2007-07-31T17:33:00.000-05:00

Here's my Grandma style steam pork... I love this food since I was baby, you should try it out too and you'll fall in love with this dish ^^... It's very simple and I'm sure everyone can make it .. and the fun of it is~~~~ It's 30 mins dish and than you can continue whatever you do after that Hehe... Well have fun~

Soy sauce Steam Pork (Bak Cho)

Ingredient:
Minced pork about 1/2 lb
1 spoon minced garlic
Soy sauce
Chicken stock
tapioca powder
1 spoon preserved vegetable (tung choi http://farm1.static.flickr.com/206/487449893_fb05c7e8ed.jpg)

How To:

mix pork with garlic, soy sauce (2-3 spoon), chicken stock(1/2 tea spoon), preserved vegetable, you also can add a little bit tapioca powder to make the meat softer. put it on bowl and press it. add 2-3 more spoon of soy sauce and 3 spoon of water. steam it for 30 mins. serve while it's hot.

Singapore Prawn Noodle

2007-07-29T20:32:00.000-05:00

Today, I just ate Singaporean style prawn noodle. Normally, you have to go Singapore in order to taste this dish, but now you can have it at your home. Easy to make and great satisfaction, even my bro who have shrimp allergic he still ate two bowlful of prawn noodle Hahaha.

Singapore Prawn Noodle

1. Prawn + the shell for soup base.
2. Pork + Pork bone for soup base.
3. Fish Balls.
4. light soy sauce (kikoman).
5. Salt.
6. sugar.
7. Ginger(1 inch).
8. white pepper.
9. Pork Block or chicken block.
10. fish sauce
11. Kang kung (water spinach)
12. fried Pork skin (0ptional)
13. Egg noodle

Boil the shrimp shell and Pork + bone, 1 inch of ginger for approximately 2 hours to get the shrimp taste. add little soy sauce, little fish sauce, pinch of salt, sugar, pinch of white pepper, pork/chicken block (the taste should light sweet not salty).
boil water separately and cook the shrimp, fish balls, and egg noodle.
to serve. put noodle on the bowl and put all ingredient on the top (kangkung, shrimp, slice pork, fish balls) and than pour it with the hot boiled base soup. serve with fried onion and fried pork skin (if you have).

Enjoy~

Agar2 Tofu Dessert

2007-07-29T01:08:00.000-05:00

Here's another dessert which is one of my all time favorite. I call it Agar2 tofu because it's looks like tofu but made of agar2 . I learned this from my mom. It's very easy to make yet delicious and refreshing.

Agar2 Tofu dessert

1 Package Agar2 powder (Swallow Globe Brand)
1 Can of evaporated milk (Carnation)
3 cups of water
120 gram of sugar
1-2 Cans of Longans (leng keng)

Mix milk and water (ratio 1:3) total up to 900 cc (about 4 cups).
add 1 package of agar2 powder and sugar.
Boil them together and put in container and wait until it cool down (you can save it in the fridge).
after couple hours, it's done ... ready to serve.. just cut it into square size than mix with longans and the juice.. add ice and tadahh~ You'll love it...

Air mata kucing

2007-07-28T03:03:00.000-05:00

Today I'm going to post another dessert recipe... I knew this dish from Malaysia and it gave a lot of memories when I drink it again. You can find the stalls in most of Night market.. steel bowl ... The ice cool feeling of the drink was unbeatable and you could easily scoop up the longans with the metal spoon provided. So guys.. you should try this..

Air Mata Kucing

Ingredients:

1 piece lou han quo

1.5/2 box longans
rock candy
wintermelon

How To Make:
put all together in boil water
lou han quo first after 15 min put longans
than cook for long time. about 2 hours

at the end when it's cold, add shredded plain jelly in it. Serve with ice (in steel bowl if you have one).

Strawberry Love Dessert

2007-07-27T00:35:00.000-05:00

Hello guys... I'm back.. Here I am..
Try this .. it's absolute delicious and nice... You'll love it and... if u give it to someone (ehemmm) s/he will love it TOOO... it's super yummy ~

Strawberry Love Dessert

Ingredient:

Biscuit Marie Regal / sugar cookies
Margarine for cake (Blue Band or something else that smell good)
Whiskey (Good one make cakes taste better)
Sweetened condensed milk (white). If you like chocolate is fine too.
Strawberries
Messes
Marshmallow

How to make the cakes:

Crunch the biscuit.
Add margarine. Use hand to mix it until you feel like creamy in your hand and you feel good and soft in your hand.
Add little by little whiskey. But not too much. Test it by using your sense of taste.
Add sweetened condensed milk little by little until it sticks together. Not too much milk because it will become too soft and cannot stick together.
After than you can make what ever form you like (circle, square, love shape)
Make 2 layer of cake and put messes on the top of each layer.

How to put the dessert together:

Welcome

2007-07-22T18:50:00.000-05:00

Welcome to Freddy's Blog. I have no idea why i started this thingy. I guess, I'm just too bored now. Anyway... Hope I'll get bored all the time so I will keep posting more stuffs here.

Freddy Tan

Korean Rice Cake

Soft Omelette

Repost - Strawberry Love Dessert

gỏi cuốn - Vietnamese salad roll

White Radish Soup

Steam White Pomfret

Salsa

Crab Rangoon

Ingredients:

Preparation:

Sek Wai Sin's Tofu with Shrimp

Frittata

Sa Cha Pork with string beans

Cheesecake

Roselle Tea and Strawberry Ice cream tart

Thai style Pineapple friedrice

Bok Choi Sukiyaki

Kung Pao Chicken

Clay Pot Chicken Rice

Semur

Chicken, Tofu and Varieties of Mushrooms

Shanghai Nian Gao

Opor Ayam

Nasi Tim Ayam Jamur and Acar

Pontianak's Fish Porridge

Nasi Uduk (Rice Cooked in Coconut Milk )

Egg tarts

Soft thin rice noodle (mee sua) soup

Miso soup and Miso Udon

Black Pepper Pork

Chinese Steak

Lemon and Pandan Pound cake

Bakso

Spaghetti Napolitan

Thin Rice Noodle in Gravy

Nasi Kuning (Yellow Rice)

Ice Cream Sandwich

INGREDIENTS:

PREPARATION:

Yu choy and Iceberg lettuce

Steam Egg with Ebi

Bulgogi

Bakmi Ayam Jamur GM

Salted Soybean Frog Legs

Sukiyaki

Chicken Soto

Sushi

Perkedel

Agar Cake

Sapo Tofu

Grilled Oyster Sauce Chicken

Puyunghai

Hot Spicy Prawn

Bak Kut Teh

Sour Mustard Chicken or Pork

Tropical Cold Honeydew

Kwe Kia Theng

Khuntien Mix Rice

Soy Sauce Eggs and Hainam Chicken Rice

Wonton Noodle

おこのみやき (Okonomiyaki)

Yam Mie

チョコ まりーやき (Choco Mariyaki)

Chicken Kuluyuk

Soy sauce Steam Pork (Bak Cho)

Singapore Prawn Noodle

Agar2 Tofu Dessert

Air mata kucing

Strawberry Love Dessert

Welcome

チョコ　まりーやき (Choco Mariyaki)