Archive for October, 2006

My almost perfect lorbak

My hubby’s eldest sister makes the best lorbak on the island, in Malaysia and probably, the best in the world.  However, I have not been able to see exactly how she marinates the meats.  She used to supply them to several lorbak sellers but she is now too old to make them in bulk.  So, [...]

Posted by lilian on October 31st, 2006 under Food | 10 Comments »

Recipe : Fresh huái shān/wai san (淮山) soup

I have always wondered what are those dull looking roots sold at the supermarket. So, yesterday when I was at the wet market with this kind vegetable seller, he got me into discovering a new vegetable. He has this box of root vegetable in a box with sawdust (to absorb moisture, I think).
He [...]

Posted by lilian on October 30th, 2006 under Food, Recipe | 7 Comments »

Frogs feast - Gungpo bullfrog

This is a plate of bullfrog.  Frogs are amphibians and Muslims are forbade from eating them.  However, Chinese loves them.  Bullfrogs are reared nowadays.  Long time ago, when my little island still have paddy fields, my brother and his friends would go frog hunting at night.  My mom would forbade him because we believe that [...]

Posted by lilian on October 29th, 2006 under Food, Recipe | 1 Comment »

English Roasted Pork sandwich

Anyone can make a decent sandwich.  It is probably the most versatile food because there is no restriction to what you can create.  And if the sandwich is to be taken as a main meal, then, one can even load more things into it for that extra bite.
I think the most important component of a [...]

Posted by lilian on October 28th, 2006 under Food | 4 Comments »

Recipe : 3-kings egg (steam, silky eggs)

If there is one thing that I have never successfully cooked, it is the ubiquitous steam eggs. The Japanese has their chawan mushi. Meanwhile, the Chinese has their ’sui chee tan’ or very smooth, silky steam eggs.

This is the raw eggs waiting to be popped into the steamer. The cooked version should [...]

Posted by lilian on October 27th, 2006 under Food, Recipe | 16 Comments »

Recipe : Good ole soya bean sticks soup (tek gah kee)

This is dried soya bean sticks or what we call in Hokkien, teik gah kee. It used to be the poor man’s routine meal. If I am not mistaken, these are the residue found afloat after boiling soyabean to make drinks and/or tofu. They just take these layer of soya bean and [...]

Posted by lilian on October 26th, 2006 under Food, Recipe | 1 Comment »
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