Last weekend, I was looking at my bottle of Hoi Sin Sauce and wondering what I shall do with it. With 3 chicken drumsticks available in the fridge, I decided to give the chicken a marinade and try out something new. It turned out tasty, albeit slightly charred due to the frying process. I have a feeling that the sugar content in the Hoi Sin Sauce caused the quick charring of the chicken. Perhaps, I did not coat the chicken enough with corn flour.

Anyway, the use of garlic gives the chicken a unique fragrance (unless you find garlic repulsive, which some do) which my daughter enjoyed very much. I had never seen her eating so much meat at one go! I would recommend this dish as a good finger / snack food or as an accompaniment to either rice or pasta.

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This is the third of a series of recipes using yam. When there is only 2 of us (my wife and I) to finish up a whole yam, we have to cook it in different ways as there is no way we can finish a whole yam in one sitting.

Anyway, as yam is sweetish in taste, it is suitable to fry it together with pork tenderloin (the most tender part of pork). I prefer this compared to potatoes as potatoes are not as flavourful. This is not the well-known dish of yam with belly pork slices but more alike the recipe using potatoes and is served in many chinese homes. Again, it is pretty simple to cook and comes in two distinct processes. Read the rest of this entry »

I have a problem naming this dessert. You see, I have no problems with yam. But I have a problem with the other ingredient namely nian gao. Nian Gao is mandarin for the word Year Cake. Nian is Year and Gao is Cake. In Hokkien dialect, it is known as Tee Kueh (sweet cake) and in the Cantonese dialect, it is known as Nin Kou (Year Cake). Nian Gao is sweet. Very sweet. It is made of rice flour, very sticky and traditionally thought to be a form of sweetener offered to the Kitchen God just before the Chinese New Year so that the Kitchen God will say good things about the household. Anyway, after much thought, I decided that I will call this the Fried Yam and Nian Gao Sandwich. Read the rest of this entry »

Homemade tofu is pretty simple to make if you have soyabean milk (unsweetened), egg white, salt and full cream evaporated milk (Ideal Milk). Just mix the ingredients together (according to the recipe, of course) and you will get silken tofu after steaming the same. In fact, the silken tofu can be as smooth and silky as those sold commercially.

Once you have made the tofu, the topping is pretty much up to your creativity. My wife stirred up four ingredients together and I decided to name them Mini Treasures just to add a little glamour to an otherwise simple home cooked meal.

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