Sweet and Sour Pig Maw 酸甜猪肚

Hi all, sorry for not updating my blog for almost 2 months. Just realized that my blog also celebrate 10th years anniversary this year. After 10 years , time for me to slow down . I still cooking and baking, mostly bake sourdough , my new favourite ^_^. I still trying out new dishes and new cakes sometime. Like this simple sweet and sour pig maw, a dish that was inspired from a restaurant located at Klang.

Homemade Chinese Pork Jerky (Bak Kwa) New recipe_2017 CNY_ 肉干_金鸡报春

After made this Bak Kwa several years, see old recipe here . I have simplified the recipe and have less seasonings. Now i prefer this new recipe instead.

Penang Lobak (meat rolls)_2017 CNY_ 槟城炸卤肉卷_金鸡报春

This is a real Penang Lobak that shared by my Penang friend's mother. When i first tasted this yummy rolls, I immediately requested for the recipe, and glad that her mom so kind sharing with me of her truly Penang Lobak recipe with her special method (scroll down to see what special ^_^). And this roll is perfectly to serve during CNY.

Sweet and Sour Pork 咕嚕肉

Gu Lao Rou a.k.a Sweet and sour Pork a classic Chinese dish. Every Chinese mother have their own version. This is my version of sweet and sour pork. Personally i prefer to use pork belly for this dish, more tender and nice taste of fat after deep fried, yum yum. Also try not to omit pineapple in this recipe too, it give fruity sweet and add colour to this dish.

Sweet and Sour Chrysanthemum Pork_2016 CNY dish_糖醋菊花里脊(吉祥年菜花开富贵)

This sweet and sour pork dish could be served at CNY re-unioon dinner as it look auspicious with chrysanthemum flower shape, something special than normal sweet and sour pork.

Tempura Stuffed Lotus Root 炸莲藕盒

I always feel bad when i need to throw away lotus roots after we enjoyed the lotus root soup, as kids didn't like it. So I like this idea of using it to deep fry, we have to eat them all.

Steamed Pumpkin Meat Bao 南瓜鲜肉包子



This month is good time to enjoy fresh and cheap pumpkin. At first I was thinking to make these bao into pan fry type. Anyway, last minutes changed to steamed type, as I am lazy to clean the mess after pan fried.

Chinese Fried Dumplings with Sweet and Sour dipping sauce 炸饺子和酸甜酱

If just eating fried dumplings alone, I feel is a bit plain, usually I prefer to cook a small bowl of sweet and sour sauce to dip with the fried dumplings. My kids can't have enough if I prepare this dumplings.

Lychee Pork 荔枝肉

When my daughter enjoying this dish, she keep saying this is tooooo yummy and non-stop eating..Maybe due to she likes lychee a lot ^_^. Anyway, I have to agreed with her, this dish is full of flavours, sweet, sour and savoury, something like sweet and sour pork. And love the juicy lychee hide inside the pork balls. Lychee is in season now, it is cheap and fresh, quickly to get some to try this out.
Lychee pork is a famous traditional Hokkien dish, especially Fu Zhou peoples like to cook it. A thin slice of pork to wrap with fresh lychee, to reassemble like a lychee shape ( you can use canned lychee but prefer to use fresh lychee). Sometime, people also replace lychee with pineapple or water chestnut.

Sweet and Sour Pork Ribs 紅燒排骨

 

Recently I just upgraded the private TV channels (Astro) to include few new channels. And i found one interesting channel mainly use Hokkien dialect (HHD). I am not interest on those drama but I love to watch their food show that more sharing on Hokkien cuisines. I learnt this sweet and sour pork ribs from a show that shared by a owner of a restaurant mainly serve Foochow cuisines. I know how to cook sweet and sour pork, but this recipe I tried has very nice and crispy deep fried pork ribs. Even the dish has cooled down, the deep fried pork ribs still taste a bit crispy.

Thit Kho (Vietnamese Caramelized Braised Pork and Eggs) 越式卤肉



Vietnamese braised pork is slightly difference from the usual Chinese braised pork. The nice golden and brown colour is not provided from the usual soy sauce but caramel sauce (Nuoc mau). There is no soy sauce is added in this recipe but still given nice colour. Anyway, I didn't prepare Nuoc mau ahead, instead I followed the way that my mother taught me when braise pork, also similar like Nuoc mau, cook sugar and oil till caramelized.

Steamed Chinese Sausages with Arrowhead 花开富贵（腊肠蒸芽菇)~~欢喜过马年



This is an easy dish to be prepared, simply steam the Chinese sausages and arrowhead. Since I have some free time, I tried to assemble them to look like a flower shape, Chinese said 花开富贵, good name and good dish to serve to your guest during CNY.

Klang Claypot Bak Kut Teh (Pork Ribs Tea) 吧生瓦煲肉骨茶



On the past few days, no sunlight and almost raining everyday. I was busy with running in and out with wet laundry. I even have to sent our daily clothes to outside laundry. I was thinking to buy a dryer but after knew the electricity bill going to increase by Jan 2014, i think I have to drop this idea. So I have no mood to bake or cook any new foods in this kind of weather, Xian!
Anyway, I try to dig out some old photos and recipes, one of the recipe is this Bak Kut Teh (pork ribs simmered in mixed herbs and spices broth ) which I had cooked it few months ago. Also this time i cooked Bak Kut Teh from the scratch..

Chinese Spareribs with shallots 紅葱烤排

When I flipping through a new cookbook that I bought recently, the chopped shallots sprinkle on top a braised spareribs photo was attracted me. I have no regret to try out this recipe, it was very flavourful with melted shallots (braised with a lot of shallots) mix with the soy sauce mixture, juicy , tender, and we especially love the chopped shallots on top, it gave extra spiciness and aroma to the ribs, yum yum !

Stir fried Roast Pork with Garlic 蒜香烧肉

Today I am going to have 3 posts, one savoury dish, one sweet cookies and final round up & giveaway results of CNY delights event, what a busy day!

At first, i thought to delay this post and post it after the event..But yesterday i saw Angel also cooked the similar dish (she used raw belly pork), and i decided to share this super simple dish using leftover roast pork and i would like this dish to include in the round up.

Now my homemade crispy roast pork 脆皮烧肉 is very famous among my family and friends, hehehe..My SIL (my husband's elder sister) who left few teeth also waiting for me to bring my roast pork when we visit her on the CNY day ^_^

Poon Choi ( Big Bowl Feast ) 蛇全十美 ～ 盆菜

I have never tasted Poon Choi before , after googled and checked few websites, i was very braved to prepare this Poon Choi for Re-union dinner. From what i learnt, this big bowl feast is a one-pot dish that full of premium delicacies as to symbloises prosperity and abundance. My idea was simply to assemble all dishes that i usually prepared for re-union dinner (with adding few new dishes) into one-pot..Usually the wet ingredients will be placed at the bottom whereas those dry ingredients to place on the top..I admit mine has the Poon Choi look but don't think it taste the same like those Poon Choi served in the restaurants or Poon Choi from origin Hong Kong.

Braised Nam Yue Pork with Peanuts and Mushrooms 南乳花生香菇焖猪肉

I was mainly posting about CNY cookies in past few days, so today i would like a change, by posting this home cooked braised pork dish that is my family's favourite especially my hubby ! Last time i don't appreciate pork knuckles or pork front hock, but when age catching up, i started to apprecaite them ^_^

Vietnamese Spring Rolls (Cha Gio)

I went a short trip to Hanoi recently. Vietnamese spring rolls was one of the item i ordered for almost all meals i taken there. I am ok with either deep fried or just plain rice paper wrap with shrimps, both were simply yummy..

Stir-fried Fennel with Pork belly

The other day i bought this cheap fennel from Tesco before i figure out what to cook with this new veggie. First i try to taste the raw fennel, it has very strong taste than leek or celery, i don't know how to describe the taste..Thus i came to this idea using sweet soy sauce to reduce the strong taste..

Crispy Roast Pork (Siew Yoke) 脆皮烧肉

I brought this cripsy roast pork to pray for Qingming (Chinese people visit the graves or burial grounds of their ancestors) on last weekend. After the ceremony, everyone was enjoyed this roast pork and they claimed that the taste is exactly like those selling outside..Even my SIL who has left not many teeth, also enjoying this roast pork very much, hehehe.. Feel free to try out this recipe as you might surprise with just few simple steps and you can get a very crispy skin of roast pork..