Stir Fried Beef Noodle

This recipe is really good! I got it from Yummly.

salt pepper 3 cups broccoli florets 8 ozs rice noodles (pad thai) 2 cups low sodium chicken broth 2 tbsps red curry paste (green)

2 tbsps fish sauce 2 tbsps vegetable oil 1 lb flank steak (cut into thin strips) 1 tbsp fresh ginger (finely chopped) 2 cloves chopped garlic

1	1. Bring a pot of salted water to a boil. Add broccoli and rice noodles; cook until just tender, about 4 minutes. Drain; rinse under cold water. In a medium bowl, whisk together broth, curry paste and fish sauce.
2	2. In a large skillet, warm oil over high heat. Season beef with salt and pepper; add to skillet in a single layer. Cook, stirring, until no longer pink, about 4 minutes. Transfer to a bowl.
3	3. Add ginger and garlic to skillet; sauté 30 seconds. Add broth mixture, beef, noodles and broccoli to skillet and sauté until sauce thickens and ingredients are heated through.

salt

pepper

3 cups broccoli florets

8 ozs rice noodles (pad thai)

2 cups low sodium chicken broth

2 tbsps red curry paste (green)

2 tbsps fish sauce

2 tbsps vegetable oil

1 lb flank steak (cut into thin strips)

1 tbsp fresh ginger (finely chopped)

2 cloves chopped garlic

1

1. Bring a pot of salted water to a boil. Add broccoli and rice noodles; cook until just tender, about 4 minutes. Drain; rinse under cold water. In a medium bowl, whisk together broth, curry paste and fish sauce.

2

2. In a large skillet, warm oil over high heat. Season beef with salt and pepper; add to skillet in a single layer. Cook, stirring, until no longer pink, about 4 minutes. Transfer to a bowl.

3

3. Add ginger and garlic to skillet; sauté 30 seconds. Add broth mixture, beef, noodles and broccoli to skillet and sauté until sauce thickens and ingredients are heated through.

Taiwanese Cusine (in Malaysia)

Fried Rice

Abalone

Stir fried tofu with celery stick

Appetier consist of egg, wakame, and pig's ear.

Sizzling pork chop!

Innard Soup

 

Jalan Alor (Malaysia)

 

Tempura Soba

Soba is a Japanese Noodle made from buckwheat flour.
It is served either chilled (Zaru-soba) or served hot. I got this recipe from foodnetwork.com.

Ingredients

• 200g soba noodles
• 1 green pepper, cut into 8
• 1 sweet potato, cut into 2cm thick slices
• 1 aubergine, cut into 2cm thick slices
• 1 courgette, cut into 2cm thick slices
• 8 shitake mushrooms
• 1 parsnip, peeled and cut into matchsticks
• 1 carrot, cut into matchsticks
• 1/2 bunch spring onions, chopped
• 8 king prawns, peeled and de-veined
• Vegetable oil for deep frying
• 100ml sesame oil

• For the broth:

• 800ml vegetable stock
• 50ml soy sauce
• 100ml mirin

• For the tempura batter:

• 300g self raising flour
• 1 egg
• 200ml ice cold water

Use imperial measurements

Method

How to make Tempura Soba

To make the batter, pour the flour in a bowl. Mix the egg in a separate bowl and add the water. Slowly pour the water/egg mixture into the flour and lightly mix. The batter should still be slightly lumpy. Season.
To make the broth, pour all the ingredients into a pan, season to taste and bring to a simmer.
Cook the noodles in boiling salted water for 3-4 minutes then drain and refresh in cold water.
Pour the vegetable and sesame oil in a pan and heat up. Test the temperature by adding a small drop of tempura batter in the oil, if it rises to the surface then the oil is ready.
Individually coat the vegetables in the batter and deep fry until crisp. Leave the prawns until last.
To serve, place some soba in the bottom of a bowl, top with the tempura, pour the broth into the bowl and finally finish with some spring onions.

Wonton and Noodles

 

Green Tea Moon Cake (with Single Yolk)

This moon cake was purchased from a bakery during our travel to Kuala Lumpur. I tried making one but it was not successful. If you want to give it a try here is the recipe and I would like to have a photo if you succeed ;-) Here is the link of the fellow blogger where I got the recipe http://nasilemaklover.blogspot.com/2011/09/green-tea-snow-skin-mooncake.html

Green tea moon-cake 绿茶冰皮月饼
(recipe source: adapted from Jane's corner)
*makes 2 moon-cakes x 3” diameter


Snow Skin
50g Koh hun (cooked glutinous rice flour) 糕粉
60g Icing sugar糖粉
16g Shortening白油
60g Cold water冷水
1tsp greentea powder绿茶


Green tea lotus paste filling
200g white lotus paste白莲蓉
melon seeds瓜子
Method-mix all together to form a soft dough, weighted 100g and shape to ball


Method
1. Sift Koh Fun,matcha powder and Icing sugar into a mixing bowl.
2. Rub shortening into the flour mixture.
3. Gradually mix in cold water and mix to form a soft dough.
4. Weight each dough 60g and shape to ball.
5. Flatten the dough ball and place a green tea lotus paste ball on top, wrap and seal the dough by slowly push the dough until totally cover the whole lotus paste ball. Slightly shape into a ball again.
6. Place mooncake inside the mould, flatten dough to conform to shape of mould.
7. Knock the mooncake mould on solid surface and slowly remove the mooncake.
8. Chill before serving

Durian Chocolate (Malaysia)

 

Steam Egg "Chawanmushi" Japanese version

My girls love Chawanmushi. This dish is very easy to make. Just mix all the ingredients and steam it, voila! Enjoy.




 Recipe from About.com

Ingredients:

• 3 eggs
• 2 cup dashi soup stock
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 tsp soy sauce
• 1 tsp sugar
• 1 tsp sake
• 1/4 lb boneless, skinless chicken thigh, cut into bite-size pieces
• 1/4 enoki mushrooms, chopped, or 4 shiitake mushrooms, stem removed and thinly sliced
• 4 leaves mitsuba (trefoil)
• 8 slices kamaboko or narutomaki fish cakes

Preparation:

Lightly beat eggs in a large bowl. Try not to bubble the eggs. Mix cool dashi soup stock, soy sauce, salt, sake, and sugar in another bowl. Add the dashi mixture in the egg mixture gradually. Strain the egg mixture. Put mushrooms, chicken, and kamaboko or narutomaki slices in four chawanmushi cups, or tea cups. Fill each cup to third-forths full with the egg mixture. Cover the cups. Preheat a steamer on high heat. Turn down the heat to low and carefully place cups in the steamer. Steam for a few minutes on high heat. Turn down the heat to low and steam for about 10-15 minutes, or until done. Poke a bamboo stick in the chawamushi and if clear soup comes out, it's done. Place mitsuba leaves on top of chawanmushi. *Makes 4 servings.

Buffalo Wings

Try this delicious recipe from foodnetwork.com 

Ingredients

• 12 whole chicken wings
• 3 ounces unsalted butter
• 1 small clove garlic, minced
• 1/4 cup hot sauce
• 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt

Directions

Place a 6-quart saucepan with a steamer basket and 1-inch of water in the bottom, over high heat, cover and bring to a boil.

Remove the tips of the wings and discard or save for making stock. Using kitchen shears, or a knife, separate the wings at the joint. Place the wings into the steamer basket, cover, reduce the heat to medium and steam for 10 minutes. Remove the wings from the basket and carefully pat dry. Lay the wings out on a cooling rack set in a half sheet pan lined with paper towels and place in the refrigerator for 1 hour.

Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F.

Replace the paper towels with parchment paper. Roast on the middle rack of the oven for 20 minutes. Turn the wings over and cook another 20 minutes or until meat is cooked through and the skin is golden brown.

While the chicken is roasting, melt the butter in a small bowl along with the garlic. Pour this along with hot sauce and salt into a bowl large enough to hold all of the chicken and stir to combine.

Remove the wings from the oven and transfer to the bowl and toss with the sauce. Serve warm.

Tofu with Chili

Enjoy the recipe I got from food.com

5 cups pinto beans, cooked
2 lbs frozen tofu
1/4 cup soy sauce (tamari)
1 1/2 tablespoons tomato paste
3 tablespoons corn oil
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
1/2 cup water
1 1/2 tablespoons oil
1 medium green pepper, diced
2 large onions, diced
3 cloves garlic, minced
1 tablespoon sea salt
1 1/2 tablespoons chili powder
2 teaspoons cumin
Directions:

1. Cut tofu in bite-size pieces and freeze overnight. Thaw out the next day (about 1 hour). Mix soy sauce, tomato paste, corn oil, garlic powder and liquid and add thawed tofu; heat up in a skillet. In a separate skillet, saute green pepper, onions and garlic in oil until onions turn clear.
2. Put all ingredients in a pot and simmer together.
3. You may have to add more liquid.4Cook 20 to 40 minutes.

Kidzania (Jakarta)

My girls had so much fun in Kidzania. There are so many things to do. If you have children with different age  better bring somebody to help you to explore different activities, otherwise one would get bored waiting and just waste time. Glad I have my kids nearly the same age. They can do most activities together.

Dentist at work.

Painting the wall! Things that is not allowed at home, yey paint paint paint!

Look how serious they are, sooo cute!

Helping at the Nursery Room.

Making their own food, chicken nuggets!

pizza pizza ;-)

at salon

pharmacy

making ice lolies.

And their favorite, the noodle factory, yey were ready to go home.

Pork Roll (Singapore)

 I went to Singapore to extend my visa. Somebody at the embassy from our previous posting messed it up. The big irony is that I have to live with those kind of people  for the next 3 years because we are posted in his country, yaiks! It's New Year and the last thing you want to do is pack and fly. I have to leave early to catch the earliest flight and come back with midnight flight. I hope not to bump into him again because I'm still furious. While waiting for my visa I went around in Singapore. For lunch I went to Maxwell Road. They said it's a place where you can find hawker's food stall. I have no clue where to eat. I arrived noon time and saw one stall where people are queueing up. That's a good sign, so I lined up and order whatever. He said pork roll is their specialty. Errr today I don't think i enjoyed the food. I tried and left most of it.