Cheap, good and nutritious Chinese soup

The above is the winter melon. It is easily grown in our backyards and long time ago, my sister planted this melon in a tiny plot of land behind her semi-detached home. The melon grew really big and during one of the worst flood in Penang in the 70s, the poor melon floated in the […]

Recipe : Pork with mushrooms and salted fish

All the ingredients you need are shown in the above plate. This is a very easy dish and it is excellent with white rice. Most Chinese homes who cook Hokkien dishes make this their staple dishes. So, what are the ingredients needed? 300 grams pork, slice or minced – rub with some cornflour to make […]

Recipe : Tumeric pork

My children love satay but to feed them enough satay to fill their stomachs, I probably need to pay a lot of money because a stick of satay now costs 60 sen. Imagine each takes 10 x 4 = RM24! With that amount of money, I can buy several chickens already. So, usually, if we […]

Recipe : Belly pork, yam and dried squids and shrimps

Times are bad. One doesn’t get to eat huge, fresh, caught live from the sea prawns that often anymore. Chicken prices increased. Pork prices increased. Rice prices increased. Now, you no longer get to eat RM3 economy rice. A simple, three dishes plate of rice costs at least RM7. So, what to do….Improvise and cook […]

Do not know how to cook? Then, stew it!

I read that our neighbouring countries folks are bracing themselves for recession. Talks of rice shortage is every where. Meanwhile, Japan is thinking of replacing rice flour with wheat flour as wheat prices also increased. With the Euro going up, all the imported foods are getting more and more expensive. So, how about saving costs […]

Recipe : Sweet corn, lotus and red dates soup

I went to the wet market today to buy some lotus roots and the lady who sells vegetables told me that lotus roots taste great with some sweet corn in the soup. So, she convinced me to buy a corn on the cob and lotus root. Here are the basic ingredients for most Chinese soups. […]