White Radish (Daikon) with Chicken Soup

 

White radish or daikon is an excellent source of potassium, folate, vitamin C and also magnesium.  Besides it is believed to stimulate appetite, treat liver and gallbladder problems, and improves bowel movement.  It is also good for sore throat, digestion and expel phlegm . However, a word of caution. Chinese believe that you are not supposed to take white radish if you are on medication or herbal tonic as white radish neutralises the efficacy of any medicine or health tonics.  So whatever health supplement you take would go down the drain!

Here is a common and simple white radish soup that we used to cook.  It is common to add dried cuttlefish to the soup.  However,  I prefer a simple and healthier soup minus the dried cuttlefish.

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Stir Fried Tofu with Chinese Mustard (Gai Choy)

 

Mustard greens are most often stir-fried or pickled and there’s where our salted veggies (ham choy/kiam chai) come from! Our asam gai choy or kiam chai boey is often made with leftovers from a large meal especially during Chinese New Year. It involves stewing mustard greens with tamarind, dried chilies and leftover meals. Sometimes we would do it with fresh meats instead of the leftover meals. It is very yummy…..

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Stir Fried Bitter Gourd with Meat

 

Bitter gourd (melon) might turn some people away from it due to its bitterness. However, it can really sweeten your health because of its disease preventing and health promoting phyto chemical compounds.

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Stir Fried Cauliflower with Minced Meat

 

This is a simple dish and easy to prepare too.  You can mix any ingredients you like such as minced meat, prawns or even both.

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Braised Pork Belly with Taucu (Bean Paste)

This dish is my family’s favourite, especially my eldest daughter!  I like to cook this dish too as it is very easy.  Just mix everything together and braise it!  No strict rules or procedures.  Cook it whichever way you like it. It’s that simple… 🙂

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Canned Sardine Curry

Canned Sardine Curry

Yesterday, I was thinking of curry fish but too bad I didn’t have any suitable fish in the freezer that could be used for curry.  Then, I remembered a friend gave me sardine curry sandwiches sometimes back and it struck on me to cook fish curry with canned sardines.  So, if you don’t mind something weird, do give this a try.  It is yummy…

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Steamed Chinese Pomfret (Tau Tai) with Shiitake Mushroom

 

This is one of the dishes I cooked on the 6th day of Chinese New Year for my friends.  It is simple and delicious.
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Simple Steamed Chicken with Chinese Sausage (lap cheong)

This is a simple dish which I got the idea from Wendy’s recipe on Steamed Chicken with Wax Meat.  I did not have wax meat and so I just omitted this ingredient.  Instead of shao xing wine, I substituted it with homemade red glutinous wine.  Overall it is still delicious and easy to prepare.  Thanks Wendy for sharing this simple and yet delicious recipe!

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Braised Ang Zhao Chicken with Arrowhead (慈菇/ngaku)

 

Ang Zhao in Hokkien is red glutinous wine lees (紅糟) and  is used in various Hokkien and Foo Chow cuisines.  Ang zhao  is the lees of the fermentation of  red glutinous wine .  I have few tubs of ang zhao which I really treasure and it can keep for years in the refrigerator.  I also blended some of the ang zhao to make it more fine and smooth.

Here is a simple dish using blended ang zhao which I cooked it on the 5th day of Chinese New Year.  Hope you all like it 🙂

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Sitiawan Ang Jiu Mee Suah 红糟面线 (Red Glutinous Wine Chicken Soup with Longevity Noodles)

 

Sitiawan is also popular for its Ang Jiu Mee Suah (Red glutinous wine soup with longevity noodles).  Red glutinous wine is mostly homemade and most of the residents in Sitiawan know how to made ang jiu.  Whenever we cook this dish, we usually use the local mee suah too.  As for me, I am used to Sitiawan mee suah.  So, whenever I go back to my hometown, I am bound to stock a few  packets of Sitiawan mee suah.

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