Archive for May, 2006

Tomyam, sausage and more pei pa duck

I can go back to place for the same food over and over again. Eventhough there must be 30-40 stalls at the Northam Cafe (lots of photos here and here too), I only eat Tomyam. I get choose what I like and I put pig’s skin and lots of oyster mushroom. Who needs prawns when [...]

Posted by lilian on May 30th, 2006 under Eating places, Food | 2 Comments »

Recipe : Rice cakes (pak kor meen, bek ger, wateva lah)

Hey, people, since my last post, I had been sitting patiently waiting for the rice cake to soften. Just when it is softens, I was too busy to cook and luckily, it did not soften any further when I kept it in the fridge. Aggie, you are such a dear! I got the idea from [...]

Posted by lilian on May 27th, 2006 under Food, Recipe | 3 Comments »

Anyone knows how to cook this?

I read about this dunnowhatisname rice cake on drliew.net‘s the other day.  I can’t find the post at the moment but it sounds like some fried koay kark method of frying. So, out of curiousity, I bought a packet yesterday.  When I got home, I found that I need to soak the thing for 12 [...]

Posted by lilian on May 25th, 2006 under Ingredients | 9 Comments »

Pei Pa Duck

Pipa (Pear Shaped Lute, Chinese guitar) The word “Pi” meant “to play forward” and “Pa” meant “to play backward”. The pipa had a half pear shaped sound box, a crooked neck, and normally 4 or 5 strings. The Pipa arrived in China in the 4th century AD from Central Asia. The history of pipa dates [...]

Posted by lilian on May 21st, 2006 under Eating places, Food | 3 Comments »

How to clean a pig’s maw (stomach)?

I will not gross my dear readers out with a photo of a pale looking, limp pig’s maw.  It is like a scene from the forensic movie, sort of like CSI.  Funny how the stomach of animals (and human too?) are always pale, whitish and has funny texture. I love looking at cows and goats [...]

Posted by lilian on May 20th, 2006 under Pork, Recipe | 12 Comments »

The race for the elusive Hokkien Mee

We have a few Hokkien Mee stalls here on the island that are very elusive.  They start opening their stall early and within 2 hours, they had finished selling.  I don’t have the kind of patience to wait for them because the queue is very, very long.  Moreover, many people will pack lots of packets, [...]

Posted by lilian on May 19th, 2006 under Eating places, Food | 8 Comments »
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