Fragrant Claypot Salted Fish and Pork Belly

Adopt this cooking from 'Nasi Lemak Lover aka Sonia' in her blog. But mine turned out to be too dark as I did not follow her cooking measurement as I am cooking only for both of us. I've missed out to reduce the seasoning and this is the results of being forgetful...

15-12-2011 ENCORE Nyonya Prawn Pineapple Curry

I'm cooking this again and the results is AWESOME! It taste better than the first time cooking with the reduce coconut milk and dry chilies...




p/s: this is steam lap cheong with garlic and chili padi...its so simple and delicious...

25-10-2011 Ju Hu Char (Stir Fry Jicama with Shredded Cuttlefish) & Egg Tofu with egg gravy

Our dinner for tonight...


Stir fry Jicama with shredded cuttlefish

Egg Tofu with gravy

15-10-2011 Deep Fried Tofu 'Pok' with meat filling

This is my first attempt in making this dish. All I added in the meat was chopped spring onions & chinese mushroom. This time the tofu 'pok' i got from the market is smaller in size. I should buy the tofu 'pok' from TESCO as the size is bigger and it's easy to put in the filling.


Not to forget to add some mayonnaise on top the fried tofu 'pok'.

Szechuan Hot & Spicy Soup

My fave soup Szechuan Hot & Spicy Soup. This time I've added a lot of ingredients in it. Delicious! I saw many online recipe where they added egg in it but I don't really fancy having beaten egg in it. So here's my version of szechuan hot and spicy soup.

ENCORE: Tu Kar Chor aka Pig Trotters in Vinegar

It's been a week or more since the last I blog here. Now I am back in action! Was thinking to make this tu kar chor this weekend. Supposed to plan it for tomorrow's cooking but I ended up have to attend a training at Eastin Hotel maybe will postponed it to Sunday cooking.

18-9-2011 Pineapple Curry Prawns

I learned this cooking from 'Nasi Lemak Lover: Nyonya Prawn Curry'. This dish is AWESOME!! But I think I should reduce the amount of thick coconut milk as it appear to be very thick for me. But it just taste too good!

Pineapple Curry Prawn

Saw a note from one of the blogger she has actually cooked the nyonya style of prawn. And I am going to cook this for our lunch tomorrow as this few days BF has been finishing work late and I had my dinner on my own. Since it's a weekend for tomorrow I'm going to learn to cook this for the first time...hmmm recently been cooking a number of dishes for the first time..hehehe

Anyway, I went to TESCO EXTRA today to buy some prawns and recently it seems they only sell the XXL size prawn. I've been buying the prawns in three different occasions and the price is vary each time I buy the prawn. But today the prawn is kinda big in size and it cost me RM16.99/kg well I bought 12nos of the prawn and it cost me at RM4.80..worth it huh...I still have about 5prawns left over from yesterday hokkien prawn mee and 6nos left over from last weekend tomyam poktek's cooking.oh no no no I am not going to cook all these prawns!!! lol..maybe I will use the 12 prawns I bought today for the pineapple prawn curry...the balance maybe to cook tomyam and to stir fry belacan kangkung ^_^

Tom Yam Poktek Part II

I've made this tomyam soup this weekend. I had my first try on this tomyam last Sunday during our lunch at one of the Thai Restaurant nearby our place and it taste so good! I tried to make this soup based on the taste and when my tomyam poktek is ready I realize it does not taste the same as what I have tried on last Sunday. I've grind all the ingredients but my tomyam turn out to be very 'clear' perhaps I've added too much water in it. But no worries 'ikan bilis' cube to the rescue, I've added one cube into the soup base and it turned out to be so delicious! I only grind 3 stalks of lemongrass...kaffir lime leaves, ginger and some garlic. I should have grind the galangal together but I failed to get one from Tesco & Sunshine supermarket today so I've skip the galangal. I added some big prawn into the soup as well with oyster mushroom, carrot , kaffir lime leaves and crabstick. I will try this tomyam poktek again this Friday hope it can turn out to be as good as the one I had at the Thai Restaurant last weekend.

Tom Yam Poktek Part I

We were having our lunch in this Thai Restaurant at Paya Terubong last weekend. We ordered Tom Yam Poktek soup. It taste so GOOD and yummy-licious!It's a clear soup and has grind lemongrass,red bird chili,kafir lime leaves,galangal,and a little bit of ginger. All this ingredients grind together and turn it into clear soup served with oyster mushroom,prawns and chopped coriander leaves. It has some sour and spicy taste. To my assumption they have grind the red bird chili together with the rest of the ingredient as I saw some chili flakes in the soup. And also they have added the 'asam keping' in making this special soup. I've tried to google the recipe online but I did not come accross of any similar cooking as the one I had.

It's about time for me to use my taste buds to do the cooking. Hope it turn out to be a good one. I have all the ingredients needed for this cooking stock up in the gridge except for prawns and coriander leaves as this two ingredients I will need a fresh one. Let's see this is going to be my Saturday project or Sunday project.

Tomyam Poktek serve in the pot

The individual tomyam poktek in a small bowl. As shown, is the grind ingredients use to make this soup.

Curry Prawn with Deep Fried Mantau

During my friend's wedding dinner last Tuesday they served us with Indonesia King Prawn Curry but to our surprised the curry is SO DELICIOUS! They served with deep fried mantau and now I am google-ing through see if anyone does cook the same type of curry~ Both of us missed that dish so so much :D

Claypot Chicken in Dark Soya Sauce

I cooked this dish before BUT..it's Claypot Egg Tofu. After BF tried on my tofu he has given me an idea to cook the same dish but to add in chicken instead of tofu. So I did as he requested. The taste is the same its just that I've added in chicken meat. I also add some chopped red chili to spice up the cooking. I've did some slight adjustment for the sauce as the first time when I was cooking claypot egg tofu I realize that too much dark soya sauce been added and the color does not look good.

Claypot Chicken in Dark Soya Sauce

Claypot Egg Tofu

Mom's curry chicken

Since the day mom taught me how to make her signature dish which she has received a lot of compliments from our family,relative and friends I have decided to learn her signature dish from her. Therefore, mom has told me how to cook her curry and gave me the recipe. Until today I've tried so my times and each time I failed to make the same curry as mom does. I even snap photo and showed to my mom my curry chicken but to her surprise the results is totally different. I know mom has gave me all her recipe because I helped her in the preparation before but I just can't get it right.

Today I was so into eating curry chicken again and we went to TESCO at about 4.30pm to buy the ingredients and the results is still the same :( Called my mom after my dinner today and told her the problem. So I have decided when I'm back home for the long raya break I should show her the way I do my cooking. Will let her to correct my perhaps wrong cooking way / style.


This is my curry chicken for tonight it's more dry as I decided not to add in too much water and was trying to do an experiment for rendang (dry curry). I was about to fried the egg and gave a second thought..maybe hard boiled egg to be added in to my so called dry curry. It's not very hot as I add less dry chili. The funny thing is I get the same aroma but not the texture. I doubt I add in too less cooking oil and also I did not 'tumis' enough. We'll see after next week see what is the results after my mom observe my cooking.

11-8-2011 Salted fish curry

While I was doing my shopping last Tuesday I have this suddenly craving for slated fish curry and immediately i grab the necessary ingredients for the cooking. It taste so good and I love the spiciness. I grind using the recipe given by my mom and i used BABAS curry powder for fish and with little bit of chili powder. I love the spiciness but BF don't really like it as I saw some smoke came out from his head while eating the curry!! hehe...