“No worries if you do not have much time, energy, and patience to do the non-stop stirring motion longer enough to make your rice congee silhouette smooth almost like the machine does, I have this legendary old-folk’s method!” How to cook the rice porridge/ congee right to achieve silky smooth and soft texture and mouthfeel, as…
Category: 1-dish Meal
One Dish Meals
Fragrant Fried Bee Hoon with Stewed Pork Chops
“Flavourful fried bee hoon for lunch over a lazy noon” You will feel hard-pressed to refuse seconds of this irresitible stir-fry. Chinese-style fried bee hoon (rice vermicelli or thin rice stick), with tender stewed meat mingle with its rich and flavourful stewed meat sauce coated on every strand. Crunchy bean sprouts add even more texture…
Singapore Hawker-Style Fried Carrot Cake (Chai Tau Kway) Recipe
Fried carrot cake is also known as “Chai Tau Kway” (菜头粿, Chinese pronounced as: Cài Tóu Guǒ). Not the usual sweet dessert, but a kind of Chinese steamed carrot rice cake. This is one of the all-time favourite local delicacies in Singapore, and it is one of the Teowchew delicacies. That’s why we usually call…
Macaroni and Cheese
Owing this Mac and Cheese recipe to one of my lovely readers, Ivy, who made this request in my Discussion Board of my Facebook Fan Club months ago, I first apologise for the late posting. And here I am sharing my recipe with you (winking smile).. This is an express and simple-making dish, excellent as side dish or…
Fried Kway Teow (炒粿条)
“Singapore-style Char Kway Teow (with yellow noodle) you may cook and taste from home!” Char kway teow, which means “fried flat rice noodles“, this is one of the popular hawker food in Singapore. It has also been termed as unhealthy food due to its excessive oil and/ or pork lard used in cooking this dish. It…
Milky Papaya Soup with Hor Fun Noodle (木瓜牛奶汤)
“Healthy and Tasty Papaya Noodle Soup” The inspiration of cooking papaya soup came from the famous payaya bee hoon soup served in Xin Wang Hong Kong café, when visited their café and ordered this papaya soup (chose instant noodles to go with it) for my late dinner, after the NDP preview on the 1st Aug….