Recipe : Century egg, tofu and cabbage soup

If not for food blogs, I wouldn’t know that century eggs can be cooked as soup.  The only way I eat century eggs are either fresh with pickled gingers or in porridges.  However, I learnt from a few bloggers and tried my own version. I used minced pork as the soup base.  Cabbage as the […]

Recipe : Char Siew/Dark Soya sauce pork

This is my mom’s legacy.  Only she can cook the pork like it should but I guess I am not too lousy in preparing them. My sons insisted to have this dish almost every week because it is sweet, tasty and very easy to mix with white rice.  It doesn’t involve any tedious tasks too […]

Meme – 10 Things I Miss Of Mom’s Cooking

I got tagged by Foodcrazee and think this is a better place to continue the meme ‘cos Mom’s cooking is all pork, pig, lard. 🙂 1) Perut Ikan – This is a special curry cooked by the Nyonyas, I think. It uses pickled fish guts (ewwss the smell), lots of herbs and vegetables and spices. […]

Asam fish and salted pork – Chai Leng Park

What can lure me to go over to the mainland in Chai Leng Park, Butterworth, spending RM7 on bridge toll (we have the Smart Tag btw) and petrol just to have lunch?  It is this Beng Huat Asam Fish and Chicken Rice.  The only one I found worth eating.  I guess this gentleman here is […]

Uncle Francis Fusion Food (Uncle FFF?)

This photo is taken by my three years old toddler because he got bored of waiting and wanted to play around with my camera. In the picture, the guy with the red shirt is Uncle Francis. He operates this Western food stall with his family. It is through word of mouth that we got to […]

Recipe : Pig’s maw pepper soup

The long overdue recipe. I had posted : How to clean a pig’s stomach a few posts ago and many readers had shared their valuable tips. Do read up and try them out. This photo is like more than one year old, a dish I cooked for last year Chinese New Year. Pig’s stomach is […]