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This food blog started in 2011, sharing my passion - cooking and baking (Did not open cooking school). From blogger And now a Youtube Creator. Share good food, enjoy video editing and love playing with ingredients in my playground-kitchen. Not just enjoy tasty but also healthy food, hence sharing easy and healthier way to cook and bake (low sugar, low oil).
P.S: Previous Channel name - 玩食我Foodie At Playground
在家也能煮出小贩中心的老火汤水准-材料简单，煮法简单的西洋菜排骨汤，喝出健康又营养 |Easy way to cook Chinese Watercress Soup.
Ingredients:
1/2 pack of watercress (washed) 半包西洋菜
2-4 spare rib 2-4 块排骨
some wolfberry 枸杞
1-2 slice of ginger 1-2片姜
1 honey date 1个蜜枣
pinch of salt and pepper 盐和胡椒粉调味
Method:
1. Put spare rib in pot before you on the heat.
2. Remove spare rib when boil and transfer to a double boil pot.
3. Add ginger, wolfberry, honey date， watercress and water (fill 90% full)
4. Put in double boil pot and boil for 3 hours.
5. Add salt and pepper to taste. Ready to serve.
You may ask : what are the 3 ways? It's my homecooked way, stew pork way and hawker food - economical bee hoon way.
I am a beehoon fan, I lke my lo mee with beehoon, I like my prawn mee soup with beehoon. I like to eat satay beehoon, fried economical beehoon, etc.
I have been looking for economical beehoon recipe for a long time and recently finally found the right recipe from a china app and modified a little bit.
So here to show you what are 3 types of fried beehoon I cooked. The beehoon I cooked is very simple as I used simple ingredients as I want to eat the most 原始味道 of beehoon with just the right seasoning.
For video on step by step , please refer to this video:
1. Homecooked Fried Beehoon Recipe
Ingredients:
- Beehoon for 2 person (I buy the individual portion type so just take 2 pieces)
- 1 handful of beansprouts (if you want more can add more)
- 1 - 2 egg
Seasoning:
- half pack chicken stock
- 1 tbsp fish sauce
- 1 tbsp soy sauce
- 1 tbsp dark soy sauce
some pepper
Method:
1. Heat wok cook egg and minced garlic.
2. Add bean sprout and soy sauce, stir fried a while. Add beehoon.
3. Add Chicken stock, fish sauce, dark soy sauce and pepper.
4. Stir fried till dry, Ready to serve.
2. Fried stew pork beehoon
Ingredients:
- 1 can Stew Pork
- Beehoon for 2 person
- a handful of beansprouts
Seasoning
- 1 - 2 tbsp oyster sauce
- 1 tbsp dark soy sauce
- soy sauce to taste
- pinch of pepper
Method:
1. Pour whole can of stew pork and wait for it to boil.
2. Add beehoon and stir well.
3. Add oyster sauce and pepper, continue to stir fried.
4. Add soy sauce to taste.
5. Stir fried till dry, Ready to serve.
3. Economical Beehoon
Ingredients:
- - Beehoon for 2 person (I buy the individual portion type so just take 2 pieces)
- 1 handful of beansprouts (if you want more can add more)
- 1 - 2 egg
- (Optional) fish ball, fish cake, cha xiu, roast pork etc.
- half bowl of water
Seasoning:
- 1 tbsp soy sauce
- 1 tbsp fish sauce
- 1 tbsp dark soy sauce
- 1 to 1 and a half tbsp oyster sauce
- pinch of garlic paste
- pinch of sugar and pepper
Method:
1. Heat wok cook egg.
2. Add bean sprout and beehoon.
3. Add soy sauce, fish sauce, dark soy sauce, oyster sauce, sugar, garlic paste and pepper.
4. Stir well till dry. Ready to serve.
Peach Gum has become today’s women’s Best Friend. It has the effect of bird nest, and it’s more affordable. I used thermal pot to “brew” peach gum dessert, it’s as tasty as using stove to boil. You should try! Check out video: https://youtu.be/W4Nm07V8MLE
Serve 2 - 3 person
Ingredient:
6 - 10 dried Longan (washed)
3 - 6 red dates (washed)
100 - 200g Peach Gum (see video on how to wash)
30 - 50g rock sugar
Method:
1. Preheat thermal pot with hot water. Close lid and wait for 2 minutes.
2. Open lid and Pour away hot water.
3. Add red dates, dried longan, peach gum and rock sugar in the thermal pot.
4. Pour hot water till 90 percent full.
5. Close lid and let it brew for 5 - 6 hours.
6. Ready to serve.
I love all things with curry, be it curry puff, curry rice, curry with bread, with prata... the list goes on.
If you are like me, you will enjoy this easy to cook curry recipe. The ingredients i used is also very basic: just onion, potatoes and chicken thigh. I have cooked this N times and it never fail me.
Ingredients:
1 onion (slice)
2-3 potatoes (cut chunk) - I like my curry with alot of potatoes
1 chicken thigh - I use skinless chicken thigh
2 tbsp chicken curry powder
100ml coconut milk
500ml water
1 chicken stock cube
1 tbsp soy sauce
a pinch of sugar
Method:
1. Blanch chicken thigh with cold water till boil.
2. Remove with heat and transfer to a pot.
3. Marinate chicken thigh with 1 tbsp of curry powder.
4. In the same pot fry onion till soften.
5. Add water and chicken stock cube. And 1 tbsp of curry powder. Stir well.
6. Add potatoes chucks and wait for it to boil.
7. Simmer for 15 minutes till potatoes soften.
8. Add coconut milk. Stir well.
9. Season with sugar and soy sauce.
10. Remove chicken thigh from curry and shred.
11. In a separate pot, boil noodle. (or beehoon)
12. Transfer to bowl and add in shredded chicken.
13. Add in potatoes and curry.
14. Ready to serve.
Now it's nearing CNY and I am also busy preparing many Chinese New Year goodies. Almond cookies is a must bake new year goodies for me. Coming year is the year of pig, so I decided to design my almond cookies into Miss Piggy.
(Method see video)
Method:
1. Sift Plain flour and icing sugar. Add ground almond and mix well.
2. Add peanut oil and vanilla essence and mix till form dough.
3. Preheat oven at 180 degrees.
4. Roll dough into balls and flattened them.
5. Egg wash all of them.
5. Add a small piece of dough just slight below the face to form nose.
6. Use toothpick to add piggy nose hole.
7. Add almond slice to form piggy ears.
8. Bake in oven for 25 minutes.
9. Ready to serve when cool.
2019 is here! Good to see all of you here in 2019!
To start the new year rolling, it is the best time to 进补 (take in the nutrition).
I have been taking this drink since last year, as my health was not that good then.
Ever since, I have more energy and getting better everyday. So now, I would like to share this good and healthy drink with you.
And do you know this tea can help to reduce constipation and prevent flu? Yes it is a super drink too.
I used thermal pot to make this drink so it is very easy.
Ingredient:
6-8 red dates 红枣 （洗净）
1 - 4 ginger slice 生姜片
rock sugar (your choice to add more or less) 冰糖 （份量随意）
Method:
1. Preheat Themal Pot by adding some hot water. 加少许热水入焖烧罐以做预热的准备
2. Cover lid and wait for 2 minutes. 关盖待2分钟
3. Open lid and add all ingredients. 开盖加入全部食材
4. Cover lid and wait for 3 hours. 关盖待3小时
5. Ready to serve hot. 可随时享用
Is Japanese curry your favourite? Instead of chicken, why not cook with Pork collar?
I used Japanese Curry cubes that can be found at most supermarkets.
It's easy to cook just that you need some patience as need time to cook through.
From the video, you can see that I off and on the heat during the process. Reason is I do not want to burn the curry cube and make the mixture uneven.
Method:
1. Heat oil in wok and fried onion.
2. Add pork collar piece by piece and separate the meat to prevent from clumping up.
3. Add some water, oil and rice wine.
4. Once boiled, add potato and carrot chunks.
5. Add 300 - 500ml of water.
6. Once boiled, Lower heat to simmer for 15 minutes.
7. Off heat, add 3-4 Japanese curry cubes. Mixed well with the mixtures.
8. On heat again and simmer for 10 minutes.
9. Ready to serve.
This is my "will choose" dish when I choose my dishes at Mixed vegetable rice. Is that yours choice too?
This dish only require 2-3 ingredients and simple seasoning. For full method, click to video below:
Ingredients:
2 potatoes
1 can of SPAM or Luncheon Meat 午餐肉
1 handful of Mixed vegetable 杂蔬粒
2 pkt ketchup 番茄酱
1 pkt chilli sauce 辣椒酱
1/2 tsp sugar 糖
1/2 cup water 水
Method:
1. Cut SPAM and Potatoes into cubes. 午餐肉和马铃薯切丁
2. Air fry potato cubes to save time. Air fry at 200 degrees for 10 minutes. 为了省时，气炸马铃薯。200度10分钟。
3. At the same time, pan fry SPAM or luncheon meat cubes till golden brown. 同时间煎午餐肉至金黄色。
4. After 10 minutes, add potato cubes to pan. 10分钟后加进马铃薯块
5. Add mixed vegetable and mix well. 把杂蔬粒加进去
6. Add 2 pkt ketchup, chilli sauce, water and sugar. 加番茄酱、辣椒酱、水和糖，搅均匀
7. Simmer for 5 minutes till potato soften. 煨5分钟或至马铃薯变软
8. Ready to serve. 即可上桌
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This is my another comfort Chinese food. Is that yours too? I love all dishes with Hae Bee (dried shrimp), It has a distinct aroma that make all dishes taste so addictive and appetizing.
What are the dishes with dried shrimp? The famous Laksa, hae bee hiam (prawn roll) etc.
Just like prawn with shell, Dried shrimp is rich in protein, iron, calcium and vitamins. The amount of dried shrimp I used, only give us 13 calories. With cabbage to go with it, it is definitely a healthy dish.
Very simple to prepare and easy to cook. Only need 2 ingredients: cabbage and dried shrimps , with some seasoning. And it goes so well with rice. Sometimes I eat it on its own too.
Those follow my IG or FB, will know that every year we will plan for our cruise holiday. For the past years we have tried Royal Caribbean - 2 times in Mariner of the Sea and 1 time at Ovation of the Sea. This year we decided to try something different - we tried Dream Cruise for the first time and we are impressed by the following: - Room: Dream Cruise Room seems slightly bigger than Royal Caribbean Cruise. And toilet is much bigger too. - Royal Caribbean has compulsory mustering, whereby Dream Cruise demonstrate safety exercise via TV. - Pillow: Dream Cruise pillows are fluffier as compared to Royal Carribean. - Food: Royal Caribbean served more western food compare to Dream Cruise. Dream Cruise serve dim sum on breakfast. And authentic ala carte chinese dishes for lunch and dinner. - Last day : Besides Farewell party, Dream Cruise also show us fireworks. To summarise, if you are adventurous, love sport, think mustering is important and enjoy room service, you will like Royal Caribbean. If you are a foodie, like fluffy pillow, want big toilet and enjoy fireworks , then you will enjoy Dream Cruise. P.S: No advertising purposes, only through own experience and view. 我喜欢美食和旅游。相信你也和我一样，我一直想找关于这两家邮轮对比的影片和资料，但是一直找不到答案，于是我亲自体验了，也做了比较并希望用影片分享我的看法，也希望能给你一些答案。
朋友都知道我喜欢去邮轮旅行，所以常问我的问题是？到底Royal Caribbean皇家加勒比国际游轮好玩还是Dream Cruise星梦游轮好玩？
老实说，对比之下，我觉得Dream Cruise的房间好像比Royal Caribbean的大一点，而且厕所也比较大。
Royal Caribbean需要集体集合到指定地点参加安全演习。而Dream Cruise一入住就可以休息不需到外面集合，因为安全演习是通过电视和广播提醒的。
Dream Cruise的枕头也比Royal Caribbean的松软有弹性，这点对我的睡眠很重要，因为我喜欢有弹性的枕头才睡得着。
至于美食和餐馆，我比较喜欢中餐，也很注重美味，所以我会投Dream Cruise一票！
不得不提最后一天的活动。星梦和皇家加勒比游轮都有举行狂欢party。不过星梦游轮除了超high 的party外还会放长达10分钟的烟火！
总结之前所作的比较：
如果你喜欢冒险、爱做运动、对安全演习很注重，也喜欢room service 那你会喜欢Royal Caribbean.
如果你对美食很注重、喜欢蓬松的枕头、喜欢大厕所、又爱看烟火、那你会喜欢Dream Cruise.
P.S: 纯属个人意见，仅供参考。
My mom used to cook this dish for me. It’s my comfort food. Is that yours too?
I always eat this with rice or porridge. And now I am on diet so I eat it on its own - with meat, egg and tofu, full of protein and nutrients. It’s a steam dish so it’s simple and healthy. And suitable for elderly and kids.
Ingredients:
1 unit of silky tofu 1块嫩豆腐
250gm mince pork 250克猪肉碎
1 egg 1个蛋
Seasoning:
1-2 tbsp soy sauce 一至二汤匙生抽
1 tbsp shaoxing wine 一汤匙绍兴酒
1 tsp salt 一茶匙盐
1 tsp sesame oil 一茶匙麻油
pinch of white pepper 白胡椒粉少许
Method:
1 Add all ingredients and seasoning together in a bowl and mix well. 把全部材料搅拌均匀
2. Steam in rice cooker for 15 minute. 用饭锅或其他蒸炉蒸15分钟
3. Garnish with spring onion and/or coriander. 可加葱花或香菜提味
4. Serve when hot. 记得趁热吃
P.S I used rice cooker to steam , means you can cook rice and steam this dish at the same time. Enjoy!
Have you tried Avocado Milkshake or smoothie? If not, you will fall in love with it. After taking Avocado shake at a restaurant one day, I decided to make my own. I only use 3 ingredients - avocado, gula melaka syrup and fresh milk. It is a good source of healthy fats and protein. But you can't have it everyday, just in case "fat overloaded".
According to Wikipedia, Gula Melaka is a kind of Palm sugar - a sweetener derived from any variety of palm tree. And Gula melaka is a type of palm sugar made from the sap of flower buds from the coconut palm. In my recipe, I only use 1 and 1/2 tbsp. And according to www.myfitnesspal.com, 1 tbsp of Gula Melaka syrup is only 29 calories. As compare to 60 calories for 1 tbsp of Honey, this is definitely a healthy choice.
I bought my Gula Melaka Syrup from NTUC or Sheng Siong (see video for visual). My friend also got me 1 jar of gula melaka syrup from Malacca.
Gula Melaka Avocado Milkshake (Calories - 261)
Ingredients:
1 avocado
500-600ml Fresh milk or UHT milk
1 & 1/2 tbsp Gula Melaka Syrup
Method:
1. Cut open avocado, remove seed and skin and put flesh into blender.
2. Add 500-600ml milk
3. Add ice cube.
4. Add gula melaka syrup. Blend till turn smoothie.
5. Ready to serve.
To be honest, I seldom poached egg. As I saw some video that require one to keep stirring the water in 1 direction when add egg to pot. So I always do what I am familiar with, do soft boil egg, hard boil egg, fried egg, fried sunny side up etc, until recently I saw a simple way to do poached egg from Simplyrecipes.com/easy_poached_egg, then I again experiment this method.
Verdict: when put egg to pot, the egg white run more than the video show but I am happy with the finish product, egg white is firm enough and egg yolk is runny. Most importantly, IT IS SUPER SIMPLE AND FUSS FREE!
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