A friend of mine gave me some garam masala that he made recently and I decided to use it to make some Indian curry. For our first round of using it, my colleague made a popular Indian/English dish - Chicken Tikka Masala.
This is a simplified version without using a tandoor to cook the chicken but the marinade and the rest of the herbs and spices are that of chicken tikka masala.
The chicken is first marinated in yogurt and a mixture of spices like paprika, cayenne, cumin powder, coriander powder, fennel powder, black pepper and salt. This yogurt marinade tenderizes the chicken as well flavor the chicken meat. It marinades for at least 30 minutes are room temperature or overnight in the fridge to allow all the flavors from the herbs and spices to penetrate the chicken thoroughly.
On to the cooking. The dish starts with butter then turmeric powder, paprika powder, cumin, fennel, coriander powder, cinnamon sticks, chili powder, and the garam masala goes in. Next the marinated chicken goes in and it's cooked until the dish gets dryer which takes about 20-30 minutes.
He also cooked another dish of stir fried bean sprouts simply seasoned with oyster sauce, salt and pepper, and the dish is done.
We ate these 2 wonderful dishes with rice and it was so delicious. The chicken was so flavorful and the curry was divine! A dish that we'll definitely want to cook again in the near future!
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Birria Ramen was something I saw online and decided to make it! It looked really easy but it does have lots of steps to it especially since I was doing a recording of this, it took much longer time to cook and prepare it.
I start with slicing up beef tenderloin and marinating it with chipotle in adobe sauce, tomato sauce, paprika, and salt and pepper. I left it to marinade overnight and the next day, I cooked it for 2 hours until it was soft and tender.
After cooking it, I removed the beef from the liquid and stir fried it with oil until it developed some caramelization and brown bits which gave it so much extra flavor.
For the noodles, I simply used some instant ramen and cooked them. I also made a 63 degree sous vide egg and topped everything with some spring onions and sliced cabbage.
It was such a delicious dish with a rich and smokey broth. Great recipe to try out.
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One of my colleagues cooked lunch the other day. He made some Korean Spicy barbecue chicken which he oven roasted. The sauce he got from the clarence section at a grocer which he didn't need to spend lots of time making the sauce since it was a premix.
The chicken was boneless chicken thighs that he marinated then oven roasted it at 180 degrees for 30 minutes and basting it with the spicy BBQ marinate every 10 minutes.
It turned out sticky, charred, spicy, and sweet. Super delicious pairing with the chicken and especially eaten with rice. We got a side of stir fried Kailan vegetable as well to make this dish super colourful and appetising.
Topped it off with some of that chili oil drippings from roasting the chicken as well as some crispy fried garlic and freshly sliced spring onions. It was such a flavorful rice bowl that had a well balanced flavor as well as nutrition.
A super delicious lunch that was simple but super delicious!
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One of my first high viewing tiktok videos is this Japanese curry that I made. I'm really enjoying making content but more so when people watch and engage with the content, I feel that it makes it worthwhile sharing something beneficial like cooking and eating which is part of what everyone on the planet does every day.
I made this Japanese curry with chicken although my go-to if I were to be making this for myself would be pork belly. But chicken is good as well with the curry, along with potatoes, carrots and onions that I roughly chopped up.
Everything goes into the pot along with the Japanese curry stock cubes and some water and cook it for 20 minutes and the dish is done.
A simple and inexpensive meal that feeds 6-7 people. Saves lots of time and the work to prepare this dish for that many people is worth the effort.
If you're using pork belly to make this dish, cook it for an additional 20 minutes.
For my full video tutorial, check out the link below 👇
https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSLtYnbvS/
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After watching Oppenheimer, which is so far the best movie of the year maybe even 2 years, me and my friends went for dinner at a Japanese place called Yayoi in the mall we watched the movie.
It was quite late and I guess we were one of the last tables being served. I ordered their Unagi with rice set that came with a side of iceberg lettuce dressed with sesame seed sauce. It also came with some pickled kyuri and a bowl of Miso soup.
Everything tasted as it should. Nothing really outstanding as you would expect from stuff that are basically prepared from bottled sauces to table.
The Unagi and rice was delicious nonetheless especially since I've been craving for some Unagi for some time now.
Service was prompt and the food came hot. If you want Japanese and a quick meal, this is a place that can certainly do that.
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One of my fave burgers is the Mozza Burger from A&W. It has been one of my fave burgers since I was a kid and until now I always get to a happy place when I have this burger. I can remember the first time I had it. It was a sports day of the church I used to go to with my parents.
It was like the only day in the year where our parents just let us go wherever we wanted in the stadium compound that the church rented for a day.
My parents gave me some pocket money and I could spend on whatever I wanted. It was such a special day and not an everyday thing in our household.
There was an A&W there and that's when I first had my first Mozza Burger. I guess asides from it being a yummy burger, it has that adventure feel to it for me as it connects me with that experience of exploring the stadium grounds.
Even thinking back on it now, that experience in my life carries a lot more value than the taste of a burger.
Anyways, what a wonderful burger - double beef patties with cheese, tomato slices, lettuce, crispy beef bacon, and their special sauce. Super delicious and the much better version of the McDonald's Big Mac.
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Went to my Mum's place for lunch the other day and she cooked some super delicious food!
She made 2 dishes, both of which are some of my favorites that my Mum makes. She cooked tamarind curry fish with ladies fingers and wax duck with leek and tofu.
The curry was so delicious and packed full of complex flavors as a curry should. It was savoury, slightly sour and sweet, and so aromatic and fragrant. The fish was tender yet not falling apart and the ladies fingers were divine!
Wax duck is a cured and heavily salted meat that can keep for ages. She roughly chopped them up into pieces and stir fried them with garlic, leeks and tofu. The meat of the duck flavors the dish and it's such a delicious dish to eat!
We had all of this with white rice and it was amazing! Always love to have lunch at my Mum's since its food that I don't need to cook and just enjoy!
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Been going to this place called 'Kari Kepala Ikan Melawati' for dinner. I've had a few items but mainly I go there for the satay which is not actually by them but a small stall that they rent out to.
The main shop itself however I've only tried a few of their dishes. I've tried their 'Ayam Goreng Kunyit' which is chicken fried and cooked with turmeric, onions, long beans, and cauliflower. This was one of the first things I tried there and it was good.
My next visit I got their 'Nasi Goreng USA' which translates to USA Fried Rice. It is very Malaysian despite the name and it's a spicy, sweet gravy with beef slices and a fried egg on top of the fried rice. It's one of my favorite dishes and this place makes a fairly decent one. The price is on the upside of RM16 compared to other places but the taste is average for that price point.
My last visit was the one that I didn't quite enjoy. I ordered their 'Nasi Goreng Pattaya'. The fried rice was wrapped nicely and the egg was good however the fried rice only had vegetables of those frozen corn, carrots and peas. There was no chicken or any other protein asides from the eggs and all for RM11. It wasn't a satisfying meal at all and wished they served it with some chicken especially at the price point.
Overall 5/10 price to food which is average. Not great, not terrible.
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Last month I got some patin fish for our staff meal. My colleague cooked it on the flat top with cajun seasoning and it was so delicious! Patin is a type of catfish that's locally farmed here in Malaysia. It's fatty and the flesh is really soft and tender.
It was marinated with some soy sauce and other ingredients then searing on the flat top, its finished off with a cajun spice rub and we enjoyed it with some white rice.
I made a video for this recipe on TikTok which you can find here:
https://www.tiktok.com/@cheflifedw/video/7262716310834990338
And right after I made the video I had a reply from someone that I didn't know. It was a fish supplier that has a farm in Sarawak and he offered to give some sample fishes for us to try at the cafe! I was really surprised by this as I've only just recently started making video content on TikTok and was really excited to get this sample to try.
Here's the video of me getting the fishes. I've recently tried 2 of them and they are absolutely delicious!
https://www.tiktok.com/@cheflifedw/video/7262716310834990338
Special thanks to borneoproduce.com for this amazing locally farmed fishes that were so fresh and delicious! Had so much fun cooking this amazing produce and of course, eating them!
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Made a peanut butter and chili sauce the other day for noodles and it was absolutely amazing! It's a Chinese dish that's popular in China and I decided to make it.
Since we have chili oil at the cafe, all I needed was peanut butter and to mix it with soy sauce and sesame oil and the sauce mix for the noodles was done. You can use your favorite store bought chili oil and not necessarily a homemade one. It'll work fine and still be very delicious!
For the noodles, I used a handpulled type Beijing noodle which has a chewy texture and a great mouthfeel.
Add a little of the noodle cooking water to it and the sauce is done and ready to mix with the noodles. Top it with sesame seed and freshly sliced spring onions for garnish and the dish is ready to be served.
Super delicious meal with amazing umami packed in every bite. Will definitely make this dish again in the near future. A handy and easy recipe to have in your cooking book.
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After the recent debacle last month at the Good Vibes Festival where it got cancelled because of some idiot kissing on stage, our cafe was hit with lots of unsold goods where we needed to add to the menu to cook so it doesn't go to waste.
One of the items were the po' boy sandwiches. We now have a Cajun chicken sandwich, shrimp po' boy and an oyster po' boy sandwich.
I love the oyster po' boy not because the oysters are great but because the sauce that goes with it is superb!
It starts with the Brioche buns that are toasted with butter then lettuce, tomato slices, and pickles go in. The breaded deep fried oysters go on next then it's topped with the amazing cilantro lime aioli which is super delicious! I now use it on everything from fried chicken to eggs. This sauce is absolutely amazing. Fresh, slightly tangy and so delicious!
Hopefully we get to recover the lost as there is still 60-70% of leftover stock left that can't keep forever.
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Ladies Fingers with Dried Prawns is a Malaysian dish that's one of my favorites. My Mum and my wife can make this dish very well and recently I got the recipe from them and cooked it at my work place as the staff meal.
There is a wya to remove the slime from ladies fingers which is to simply just cook them longer. I it'll naturally just evaporate and disappear.
If you don't like ladies fingers because of the slime, try this cooking method out and it'll taste like a whole new dish. Here is the recipe below along with a video tutorial of how to make this dish. Enjoy!
What You'll Need:
Ladies fingers - 600g
Dried prawns - 25g
Onions - 120g
Garlic - 40g
Salt - 2.5g
Chicken Stock - 5g
A simple dish that has lots of flavor and if you love spicy food, add in fresh chilies to blend with the paste to make the most authentic version of this Malaysian dish.
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Click here for full recipe video 👇
https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSLbnpgQr
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Recently I went for lunch after church with my friends and family to this place called Mamalek. It's located at a food court and operates just a small stall inside. I've heard my brother say that you don't have to go to Thailand coz the Siamese beef noodles here are as good.
So finally I got to try it out and it is exactly as my brother said! Extremely delicious bowl of noodles and the beef broth was amazing, full of depth of flavor and extremely satisfying!
I got their RM16 bowl which has beef tripe, stomach, tendon, beef slices, and meatballs. It's topped with Crispy fried garlic and fresh cilantro. The beef slices and everything else were tender and flavorful. All cooked really well and expertly.
Really worth it the price considering you don't have to book a plane to Thailand whenever you have the craving for a bowl of beef noodle soup.
Highly recommended to anyone that loves soup, noodles, or beef, and even better if you love all three. Super delicious and can't wait to go back again!
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Nowadays we have lots of boneless chicken thighs and drumsticks at the cafe as we have this new fried chicken burger on our menu. Whenever we can't sell it off, we will have it for our staff meals.
This was from the first week where not many people knew about the burger so we had lots of leftovers. We fried them up and his it for our lunch with some white rice.
The chicken is marinated in a buttermilk brine together with herbs and spices that make it really flavorful. It's then coated with a seasoned flour drench and then into the deep fryer for 6 minutes to cook. It turns out super crunchy on the outside and juicy in the inside.
We also had some leftover black Fungus mushrooms from the other day when I made Japchae. So we used that and cooked a mushroom stir fry together with oyster mushrooms, soy sauce and some chili for an extra spicy kick.
A wonderful pairing of chicken and mushroom cooked in a way that isn't normally something you'd see pair on a menu. We get to experiment a lot and eat lots of delicious food working as a kitchen crew. Such a blessed life 🙌
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It was one of our part-timers last day of work so I cooked some fried rice for our staff meal since she wanted rice. I made a Chinese cumin beef fried rice and it turned out pretty good for my first try.
I started by marinating the beef with cumin, white pepper, and soy sauce. Should've added oil to this which would've made it better and will definitely do so when I cook it next time.
I started by cooking some broccoli with garlic, oil, and seasoned it with salt then separated it. In the same pan I then cooked the beef until it was golden brown and seared then removed them from the pan as well.
Next I cooked some eggs and made it into an omelet then sliced it into strips where I will use it for garnish at the end.
Now on to the rice, on the flat top, I cooked this rice dish teppanyaki style and added in the beef and broccoli I cooked earlier to cook with the rice. Season it with salt and MSG and the dish is done.
Serve it up in a bowl with more beef mince, freshly chopped spring onions, and some of the broccoli, and the ribbons of egg on the side and the dish is done! Super delicious and definitely a recipe to have in your Asian dishes to cook.
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Have been wanting to cook this dish for some time now. I made Japchae the other day for the staff having in mind one of our staff that loves Korean food. I like this dish too and managed to get the ingredients the other day to cook it.
It's a fairly simple dish to make that doesn't require any high level cookery skills but the prep time for this dish takes quite a bit of time.
I made this with julienned carrots, onions and peppers. Another thing I added was black fungus which you need to steep it in hot water and then rinse it with cold water. Slice it up into strips as well to match the other vegetable sizes and then the prep is basically done.
In some boiling water cook the potato starch noodles and then drained it and put it into a bowl.
I also added in some chicken pieces marinated with soy sauce, sesame oil, oyster sauce, and sugar. After cooking the chicken, set it aside and cook the vegetables seasoned with salt. After sauteing the vegetables add the cooked vegetables and chicken to the noodles and the same marinade of soy sauce, sesame oil, oyster sauce, and sugar and mix everything together.
Once it's all mixed, it's done and ready to be served!
It was such a delicious meal and everyone enjoyed this delicious meal together! ~~
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Sometimes at the cafe we don't have the time nor energy to cook any complicated food for our staff meal so one of our go-to dishes to make are one-pot meals.
I cooked this Chinese chicken soup the other day with tofu, pickled vegetables, and tomatoes and it was so delicious. It's a one-pot dish that you just need to throw in everything into the pot and let it cook.
It starts of with some oil and sauteing some garlic then the chicken and goes to brown and develop some flavor. Next the tomatoes and pickled vegetables go in and then seasoned with some oyster sauce to taste.
The pickled vegetables are also slightly salty so you don't need to add any salt to this dish. Add in water to make it a soup like I did here or lesser water and it will be a dryer stir fry dish.
A super hearty and comforting dish that's good on a rainy day or if you're feeling under the weather. This dish will boost your immunity and fill your tummy with warm, comforting feelings! ~~
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Went to this mamak the other day called Q Bistro.
Man was it an experience. I had a little extra money since I was being really thrifty with my spending the past weeks so I thought I'd eat a little more food I like.
I ordered their briyani, a piece of Ayam kicap and some fried sotong. The food was decent however the staff there were up selling like crazy it felt so pushy. I did hear they have this sort of culture probably taught throughout their employment by upper management but I thought I'd be fine since I rejected all their attempts to add on extras for me.
But upon paying the bill, I was shocked that there was an extra charge on briyani for extra rice.
I didn't order extra rice but they did it without my knowledge nor consent. These guys are shrewd and so unethical.
I don't even have 1 bad review on my Google maps reviews, but this will be the first. I can't even remember the taste of the food coz of this incident. That's how the experience went.
I don't mind paying for expensive food but doing this sort of under the table add ons and charges is ridiculous.
So a caution to anyone going to their outlets, beware of this.
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Went for some beef noodles again at one of my go to spots for it. The noodles are handmade and are absolutely delicious. The texture and the taste to it paired with their mince beef is really a thing of beauty.
The bowl of noodles come with some vegetables that's been blanched in their beef stock which is super flavorful and topped with their mince.
For my side of soup this time, I ordered a mix bowl of beef items. It had tripe, beef meatballs, and brisket beef slices. The brisket beef slices go in to their beef broth for literally 5 seconds and then it's served. It's super tender though they lack a little flavor but tasty nonetheless.
The best thing about this meal is their homemade chili sauce. Man is this chili sauce good! Every piece of meat you fish out from the broth has to get a little dipping of this chili sauce and makes the mouthful of food elevated to another level.
A simple but delicious bowl of noodles that's affordable and would otherwise never eat this if someone didn't have a business selling it. Super thankful and grateful that it's not too far from where I live. YUMS! ~~
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One of the Saturdays last month it was scheduled that there was gonna be only 4 people working that day. I bought some sausages that I saw were going for 30% discount and it was still fresh as it was made in the morning that day itself.
I bought chicken sausages and wagyu beef sausages, 4 of each in view that the staff meal everyone would have at least 1 of each sausages. Not the first time we've made bangers & mash for our staff meal but this has got the be one of the best ones yet!
I fried them on the griddle until they were fully cooked and had a nice char. For the other components of the dish I made roasted broccoli with garlic and butter. This is one of our go-to side dishes whenever we are tight on time to cook a meal.
Another side dish of course is the mash. A simple mash with butter and chicken powder seasoning that's super delicious and full of flavor.
A super delicious lunch meal that was easy and quick to prepare but very satisfying and tasty.
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A new burger on the menu after a month of R&D. This is new cheeseburger that I'm also the supplier of. My brother makes the patties and we supply the cafe I work at with the patties.
The Brioche sesame buns are supplied by another supplier so the only thing we make in-house is the sauce which has been same "not Big Mac" sauce. We took inspiration from the McDonald's Big Mac sauce but gave added some twists of own.
In the sauce we have, mayo, mustard, paprika, pickles, pickle juice, sugar, and garlic confit. It's a very well balanced sauce that goes superb with the cheeseburger and compliments the beef patty.
For the patty it is a 80:20 ratio of lean meat to beef fat and we sear it on the griddle for 1 minute on each side then we top it with a grilled cheddar cheese and soy caramelised onions which we make in house as well.
A really well balanced burger we finally created and it's super delicious.
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Every quarter we have a calibration team meeting at our company's 1st outlet. We have talks and games before a dinner together and this time we had dinner at the outlet cooked by the chefs of that outlet.
We had a hotpot dinner with 3 different types of soup bases - tomyam, sichuan Mala, and a chicken broth.
There were a large variety of assorted meats like prawns, pork, meatballs, tofu, and vegetables. There were also a few noodles to choose from like ramen and yee mee.
For mine, I mixed and match the proteins and got a mix of prawns, meats, and tofu. I also took the ramen which were fresh ramen and super delicious. The texture was amazing and the flavor of the broth I chose sichuan Mala which had a punchy kick to the soup.
There were also lots of condiments like garlic, chili, spring onions, and coriander to top on your bowl of noodle soup.
I went back for like 3-4 rounds of meats and 1 round of ramen. It was a delicious meal made by the chefs there and really appreciate it as I know how hard it is to cook a meal especially for 20+ people.
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One of my fave burgers that is not too pricey is actually Burger King. Their patties are juicy and flavorful and they have lots of promos throughout the year.
They recently came out with a new burger which is a cheeseburger with black pepper mayo which is actually the size of a Whopper. I'm a black pepper lover and this caught my eye that I had to give it a try.
So I went to an outlet nearby where I live and got this. Although at almost every Burger King outlet I go to, my common dislike is their service and cleanliness which was the case at this outlet. The workers don't seem to be trained properly and look like they really hate their job and just want to get over with it. A common trait I've notice. Not to mention they had music blasting on high at the outlet which was annoying when you're trying to have a meal.
I was wondering where is their manager and probably that outlet doesn't have one. Then when I went to wash my hands, I saw the manager sitting at a corner chilling and singing to the song being blasted 🫠
Anyway, the burger was really good! The black pepper mayo sauce was delicious and the patty was juicy as usual. They only gave a few measly slices of Sautéed onions but it was tasty with the burger nonetheless.
Their food saves the day but definitely can improve on their service.
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I've been hearing my Mum and brother rave about a Nasi Lemak stall nearby where we live. My Mum has been saying that the mutton curry and Nasi Lemak at this place is really good so a few Sundays ago we made it a point to have lunch there after church on Sunday.
Unfortunately when we arrived, most of their food were sold out including their fried chicken and mutton curry. I was really looking forward to try their mutton curry but just had to get what they had left.
I got a Nasi Lemak with a side of sambal cockles which came with a side of onion sambal, cucumbers, fried anchovies, and groundnuts.
The rice was fragrant and delicious and the sambal cockles were nice and flavorful. The 2 sambal weren't overly spicy and had just the right amount of spices and spiciness. Really loved the meal and hopefully my next visit I'll be able to try out their mutton curry.
Will definitely recommend this place to friends and anyone that loves Nasi Lemak.
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The other day KFC was having a promo where they were selling a whole fried chicken. It was a really good marketing tactic they used and it was so well received that they did it for a 2nd week and this time they did a promo of 2 whole chickens for RM50 (<13 USD).
So I got hooked on the promotion too and bought my family a set of these 2 chickens. I had it taken away and ate them at home. It was still piping hot when I started to eat it.
But that's the only good thing which it was piping hot. The flavor was so plain and under seasoned you needed chili sauce and ketchup for it to even taste slightly decent.
The skin which normally is flavorful from the spices was also so bland and tasteless. The meat even worse. It was tender and juicy but tasted of nothing. It didn't even have the aroma nor flavor of an actual chicken.
Really a bad impression of an already bad impression of KFC here in Malaysia nowadays. Prices are going up but quality is going down.
I guess eating a whole chicken deep fried was an experience but that's all it was.
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When I'm off on Saturdays, I often go over to my Mum's place to have lunch together with my sons.
So one of the Saturdays I was off, we went to her place and she made us some really delicious lunch. She cooked 3 different dishes - a pork stir fry, stir fried long beans, and stir fried bitter gourd with pork slices which is one of my favorite dishes that my Mum cooks.
The pork is sliced and cooked with chives, soy sauce, oyster sauce and minced garlic. It's super flavorful and perfect eaten with rice.
The long beans was also stir fried with the same ingredients as the pork and it was delicious too.
My fave of course was the bitter gourd and pork stir fry. The bitter gourd was prepared really well as always by my Mum and wasn't bitter at all. Even my kids love it as it was naturally sweet and so delicious eaten with rice.
I also had a box of cold soy bean milk that was so refreshing and a great way to end the meal.
Really enjoy eating food cooked by others especially since I work at a cafe and cook all day. What a delicious meal and time spent on an off day!
Another day, another staff meal to settle. We were pretty tired from service so we went to a stall above the cafe where we work at and got some of their takeaway.
I got 4 different dishes and it was for an astonishingly cheap price. I got 2 Chicken Dishes both cooked with different Sauces and 2 Vegetable dishes, a ladies fingers and a stir fried bittegourd.
The 4 dishes amounted to 1.1 kg of food and all for the price of RM22! (<5.5 USD). It was able to feed 6 of us which is like RM3.66 per person! Not to mention this is in a bustling working area of the city which is what surprised me the most.
I knew this place sells food at a cheap price but this time was the most mind-blowing time when I was given the bill.
The food was delicious and it was a quick and easy meal to prepare since we didn't actually need to cook anything besides the white rice.
Delicious, super affordable, and value for money. YUMS! ~~
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Cooked a feast the other day and made 3 different dishes. I made a whole poached chicken and the poaching liquid I added some preserved vegetables and tofu and made a soup for the 2nd dish.
For the chicken, I salted the chicken inside the cavity and outside on the chicken skin then gently poached it in the hot stock I prepared.
This takes about 20-25 minutes of gentle poaching and it's ready. I let it cool a bit and then deboned and sliced it up before adding a mixture of garlic oil and soy sauce on the chicken and garnished with spring onions.
The soup was also really good. It was clean and refreshing. A perfect Chinese style chicken soup to accompany the chicken with rice.
We had some oyster mushrooms in the kitchen so I roughly ripped them up and added Sautéed them with eggs to make a mushroom omelet. I also added some sliced green chilies to the omelet for some color and some heat.
Was a really tasty and delicious lunch that was fairly easy to prep. Glad everyone that had the meal that day liked it.
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Another R&D item in the works is this Southern style fried chicken with eggs benedict. It's also served with a slice of shokupan bread that we cut up into 3 pieces.
The plating isn't finalise nor has this item made it onto the menu but like all good things, it takes time to perfect a recipe and how it's plated.
The chicken is Buttermilk brined overnight and it's then drenched in seasoned floor before going into the fryer at 170 degrees Celsius for 6-7 minutes.
The eggs we precook them in a sous vide bath for 1 hour at 63 degrees. It's then cooled down and put into the fridge for whenever an order comes in. When it does, the eggs are cracked into a pot of boiling water with vinegar and poached for 1 minute.
The sauce is a hollandaise but for this picture we ran out of hollandaise and used honey mustard instead. It looked so good for a picture and the consistency mimicked a hollandaise sauce. Haha.
A great tasting dish and the chicken being the star of the dish. Crispy on the outside and juicy and so flavorful on the inside because of the brine. Superb fried chicken!
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A couple of Sundays ago, my friends and family and I went for lunch as we always do, at a place nearby where I live. It's a hawker area where there are various stalls of food to choose from.
That place has items like chicken rice, pan mee noodles, wantan mee, char Kuey teow and also economy mix rice. If you don't know the dishes above, these are local Malaysian dishes that's a staple to many locals.
For my lunch, I ordered a bowl of 'chili pan mee'. It's a noodle dish that's topped with chili flakes, black Fungus, shiitaki mushrooms, some minced pork, and fried anchovies. The topping does vary from place to place and the unique item on this one is the black Fungus. Most places have a poached egg but this didn't have that.
It was served with a bowl of soup with pork meatballs and spinach. The broth was flavorful and the meatballs were delicious.
The noodles however were way too spicy for my liking and so overpowering you couldn't taste any other item in the bowl. The texture of the noodles were spot on but it was a shame that the chili made everything not so enjoyable.
If I ever order this again from this stall, I'll be sure to tell them to separate the chili so I can take the amount that is good for me.
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