Album 1 食谱一 Meal for 1 一人菜肴

Dried Fried Yee-Mee 干炒伊面

100g (克) pork 猪肉, cut into pieces 切片
25g  (克) / 10 只 mini prawn 小虾
40g (克) / 1 piece (塊) fish cake 鱼饼, cut into pieces 切片
2 stalks (颗) Chinese Flowering Cabbage (Sawi) 菜心, cut into section 切段
1 Egg 鸡蛋5 cloves 瓣 Garlic 白蒜 chop into tiny chunk 切碎
1 piece (片) Yee-Mee 伊面

Seasoning 调味料：
*  2 tbs Oil 汤匙油 
*  1 tsp Soya Sauce 茶匙酱油
*  1 tsp Chicken Stock 茶匙鸡晶粉
*  1/2 tsp Salt 茶匙盐
*  1/2 tsp Sugar 茶匙糖
*  some White Pepper powder 少须胡椒粉

Cooking Method 烹饪法 :
1.  Soften Yee-Mee in boiling water, rinse and set aside.  泡软伊面，倒干， 放一旁。
2.  Heat up oil in kuali, insert egg, stir till cooked.  Add in garlic (fried till golden colour), then add all balanced ingredients, continue stir fried till half-cook.
把油烧热，加入蛋炒至熟.  放入白蒜炒至金黄, 再加入其余的材料炒至半熟。
3.  Pour in yee-mee and all balanced seasoning.
放入伊面及其余调味料。
4.  Quick stir fried with big fire till all seasoning dissolve.
用大火快速拌炒至调味料均匀。
5.  Place onto plate and served.
上碟即可享用。




伊面是什么？
伊面，原叫伊府面，是面中上品。相传300多年前广东惠州府尹清代诗书家伊秉绶宴客，厨师在忙乱中误将煮熟的蛋面放入沸油中，捞起以后只好用上汤泡 过才端上席。谁知这种蛋面竟赢得宾主齐声叫好，成为一道非常爽口的上菜。 客人来了，只要把这种面加上佐料，放到水中一煮即可招待客人。一次，诗人、书法家宋湘尝过觉得非常美味，又知道它还没有名字，便说：“如此美食，竟无芳 名，未免委屈。不若取名‘伊府面’如何？”从此，伊府面流传开来，简称为“伊面”。 伊面制作讲究色型好，体质松而不散，浮而不实，吃起来爽滑甘美。 是日本人制作的方便面的蓝本、公仔面的始祖。source : 心食谱


Pepper Fried Brown Rice 糙米灯笼椒炒饭
Brown rice and pepper are both healthy food. To make this, you don't need lot of ingredients, keep it simple otherwise it'll defeat the purpose of eating healthy. Furthermore, this is meant for you alone or just two of you.
要吃的健康又要简单及省时间的烹饪法，来个糙米和灯笼椒吧。 不须太复杂的配料，来个轻松又愉快的一人或二人餐吧！
Ingredients 配料
Brown Rice 糙米 - cook the rice, use 1 rice bowl portion and keep those extra for future use.
Pepper 灯笼椒 - cut into small cubes or any shape that preferred.
Chicken Breast 鸡胸肉 - cut into small cubes or slices.
Egg 蛋 - 1 egg

Seasoning 调味料
Olive Oil / any preferred oil 橄榄油 /个人选择
Salt 盐
Sugar 糖
Oyster Sauce 蚝油
Pepper Powder 胡椒粉

Method of Cooking 烹饪节奏:
1. Insert oil into kuali, follow by egg 将油放入锅里再打入个蛋.
2. Fried the egg till half cooked, insert chicken breast & pepper, continue stir-fry till almost cook. Insert rice and all seasonings, except pepper powder 将蛋炒至半熟，加入鸡胸肉和灯笼椒， 炒至将近熟后就继续加入饭及所有调味料，除了胡椒粉。
3. Use big fire to stir-fry till all seasoning dissolve evenly and fragrant with "wok qi". Insert pepper powder and quickly stir evenly, leave up and serve 用大火翻炒调味料至平均及有锅气. 在还没上碟前加入胡椒粉，急速翻炒， 然后上碟。

Bread RouladeA healthy and easy to make breakfast.
Ingredients :
2 pieces wholemeal bread
2 pieces ham
1 egg
Butter / Margarine
Pear (or any fruit)

Method of making :
1. Add a pinch of salt to egg, stir evenly. Separate into 2 portions and make it 2 pieces thin layer of omelette.
2. Pan seared ham.
3. Spread butter / margarine onto both size of bread.
4. Place omelette and ham onto the bread, roll it over. Use toothpick to poke at each end of the bread after rolled. Repeat the same for the 2^nd piece of the bread.
5. Place it into oven and baked for 4 min. Removed toothpick, cut the bread roll into 3 sections, and served.

Learning of the day :
The word roulade originates from the French word "rouler" meaning "to roll".Typically, a roulade is a European dish consisting of a slice of meat rolled around a filling, such as cheese, vegetables, or other meats. A roulade, like a braised dish, is often browned then covered with wine or stock and cooked. Such a roulade is commonly secured with a toothpick or metal skewer, piece of string or spinach.

Spicy Chili Fettucine with Salmon

Ingredients :-
Fettuccine - depends on personal consumption
Dry chili - 2 small size, crush
Garlic - 2 clove, slice
Black pepper - 1/2 tsb
Olive oil
Salt
Sugar
Water

Cooking steps :-
1. Soften fettuccine in boiling water, leave up and set aside.
2. Grill salmon in a hot non-stick pan with black pepper & pinch of salt.
3. Stir fried garlic and dry chili in non-stick pan, insert fettuccine, salt, sugar and some water. Stir evenly.
4. Ready to serve.

Cooking tips :-
1. Add in some olive oil and salt into boiling water during the process of soften fettuccine. Rinse with cold water once leave up from hot water to avoid fettuccine stick together.
2. Do not over grill salmon as it will turn tough.
3. To derive better taste, you may boil chicken soup in advance, and replace water with chicken soup.

Hatyai Food Trip 30th Aug - 2nd Sept 2011

Our 1st destination is - The largest sugarcane field before arriving Padang Besar
Once we crossed the border, Hindus style "Wat Khao Rup Chang" is the first temple we visited. You'll be surprise with the interior judging the outlook of the building."Sometime Sweet Cafe" seriously impress me a lot with their interior design and concept, especially the selection of cakes. Every cakes that display look so tempting that you wanna to have every each of them. "Stainless Steel" Temple - a temple which fully made up of stainless steel, and the wonder of the temple is the temperature within the temple and the sound effect of the bell when there is a wind blow.
There wasn't in our itinerary and so happy we found it next to the restaurant where we just had our dinner. And the plus point is, the lady boss is seriously "chun". The way the fish being grill is with stuffing of onion & ginger in the stomach and fully wrap with rough sea salt. The sea salt needed to scratch off before you eat it. The taste simply natural, fresh and without fishery smell.
The first 3 pictures on left hand top corner is our supper which again is not in the itinerary where we accidentally found it. The "Pork Noodle" and "Pork Porridge" is superb. The rest of the picture are our breakfast at one of the kopitiam down the street. We had Thai dim-sum & bak-kut-teh. I would prefer those in Malaysia!!!
This restaurant located @ hillside, judging from before and after picture on the left, nothing much that I need to elaborate further... Great!!
This restaurant is specialize in Northern Thai cuisine. The dish that I serious curiously about is the 3rd picture of the 2nd roll. It's so crunchy and tasting, especially when you eat it with the kerabu mangga.
This coconut ice cream dessert stall is our last station before depart to Malaysia. It is a very simple stall that just sell coconut ice cream, but what attract you is the variety of topping that you can choose from to make you own coconut ice cream. Thus, it tested you mix & match skill.

Foh San DimSum Restaurant 富山茶楼 @ Ipoh

During our way to Cameron for holiday, we swing by Ipoh to enjoy the local famous dim sum - Foh San Restaurant.

Compared to KL, this dim sum treat is really value for money from both money spend and the its temping taste.
The most important of braised 'yong-tau-foo' is its stuffing - mixture of mince pork, fish paste & salted fish. The top up sauce and crunchy fresh salad has made it a perfect combination.
The "ha-kao 虾饺' the most important is its 'skin'. At most of time, you probably will come across those with thick skin where some people like it, and some may not. I personally prefer thin skin and this perfect to me.
The mixture of fresh mince pork determine the grade of 'Siew-mai 烧卖'. To derive higher profit, many sellers may mix with pork lard. One bite on it, the oil spew out!!! That definitely not for me. Foh San 'siew-mai' is one of the quality siew-mai I found that stuff with full fresh lean mince pork, and tasty.
Apart from the one in Taman Megah night stall 'Ting-cai porridge 艇仔粥', this is comparatively as good as the one in Taman Megah. The rich condiments and smooth taste is simply make you unforgettable.
Famous Ipoh crunchy bean sprout fried with carrot cake has made it great bite.

'Xiao-long pao'.
Steam Water Chestnut Cake. I don't really prefer this as it is quite tasteless and cool chestnut cake is preferable to me.
Our group photo.

Baba Charlie (Authentic Nyonya Kuih) @ Melaka

The history town of Melaka not just famous with its Satay Celup and Chicken Rice Ball, authentic Nyonya food and kuih is one of the must eat food when you travelling to Melaka.

Melaka Nyonya food Vs Penang Nyonya food, both has its own authenticity and ways of making. In Melaka, Baba Charlie is one of the famous pure Nyonya family who produces varieties of Nyonya kuih, pineapple tart and kuih bangkek.

Base on my personal tongue preference, angkoo kuih and kuih kochi (both black & white) are my favourite. Of course, there are more that you can choose from. Scroll down the write-up and you may find their contact number.









Where Baba Charlie located :-
As for land mark - Jln Tengkera mosque.
Take the small lorong opposite the mosque (you will see the small signboard).
Baba Charlie is located inside the small lorong.

Awet Thai Cafe

Awet Thai Cafe @ Taman Cheras

Due to busy working schedule, the sharing of my eat out is always back dated, same goes to this - Awet Thai cafe which I patron somewhere in May. My sis and I just wonder what to eat this evening, and Awet Thai Cafe crossed my mind which we saw sometimes back who was full house.

Both of us were hungry and not knowing the portion of serving, we ordered 4 dishes + 1 dessert which ended up we were over filling. We started with Tom Yam Seafood that serve in a young coconut, the soury and spicy of the soup draw your appetite and the ingredients are enrich.
By just having the soup, it made me full! But it didn't make me stop just here. Thai Fried Rice is a simple dish serve with omelette, young mango, and thai style mince meat, it's simply a great simple food combination dish.
Come next is my most preferred dish of the night, Thai Deep Fried Kang Kong! But the portion just too big for 2. What so great about the dish is the crunchiness of the kangkong and the special made sauce that contain of coconut milk, serai (lemon glass), lime, chili padi & etc. When you dip the kangkong with the sauce, uummmm.. it is seriously delicious!

Come next is the Thai Coconut Otak. I personally preferred our local Penang otak-otak, as I found this is kind of too rich of seafood condiments, as well as too rich of coconut milk. So I would say this is just moderate to me.
We finished up our dinner with Water Chestnut dessert which is kind of tasteless to me, especially the sweetener level as a dessert. For those who prefer less sweet, it may be just nice for you.
Overall dishes taste is recommended, but I would suggest to improve the dessert and adjust the portion of the dishes according to the number of pax. In my opinion at last, I would say it is slightly pricy for Tom Yam Seafood and Thai Coconut Otak, the rest is reasonable.