Delicious Dinner 72.

A series of delicious homecooked dishes by my wife.

Claypot styled chicken rice cooked with a rice cooker- well marinated chicken fillet and smooth earthy Shiitake mushroom

Fresh Garden greens topped with Kewpie dressing (Toasted sesame).

Wanton Mee @Restoran Golden Kim Wah.

Now the wanton mee craze is on with the opening of
Mak Chee in One Utama.

With a Michelin Star in Hong Kong.

The various photos of their wanton mee on Instagram
does not good pleasing to the eyes.

The prawn wanton looks so hastily made and the wanton mee
looks like it's just been slab on the plate !

Wanton mee is a fast and cheap dish in many coffee shops for 
any time of the day.

This husband and wife stall in Restoran Golden Kim Wah is one of favorite.

Been in business for more than a decade -the mee is served in various styles
with either braised pork,  curry chicken, BBQ pork, braised chicken feet...etc


Today I went for their dry wanton mee served with three soft and gelatinous
braised chicken feet, blanched choy sam with earthy Shiitake 
mushroom and  a bowl firmly pressed pork wanton soup.

A great meal to start the day.

 Location: Jalan SS 20/10, 
Damansara Kim,
Petaling Jaya.

                              

Delicious Dinner 51.

A series of home cooked dinner by my wife.

Braised pork belly in a good grade light/dark soy sauce with whole Shittake mushroom, fish maw, chicken feet and sea cucumber - a wholesome pot of goodies.

Lady finger (Okra) sliced /boiled /decanter - tossed with a sweet/spicy Thai sauce and deep fried fragrant and crisp dried shrimps.

SOON & SHELINE'S WEDDING DINNER.

My nephew Soon and his newlywed wife Sheline's wedding, like all other weddings was bound to has some hiccups but luckily it was kept to a minimal.

The whole family was on hands to help them out by welcoming guests, friends and relatives and ushering them to their assigned seats.

The dinner started on time and in between the 8 course dinner were romantic music, video and slide shows of the radiant and beautiful couple instead of those noisy Karaoke singing.

After the dinner, every one gave the thumbs up for the good food served.

Spring Garden Deluxe four and cold combination platter with celery, scallop, chicken/crabstick rolls, deep fried fishpaste stuffed beancurd sheet and a cold dish filled with jelly fish/vegetarian abalone was a good appetizer and it was emptied within minutes as every one was hungry.

Braised Shark's fin soup with scallops and dried seafood-was cooked to perfection-goes well with pickled green chillies and black vinegar.

Steamed Promfret-smooth and meaty with no after fishy smell served on a plateful of peanut oil/top grade soy sauce and garnished with cilantro and spring onion.

Steamed Chicken with Chinese herbs- was fragrant, tender and meaty.

Tiger prawns prepared in two varieties-visually pleasing-done in 2 styles i.e. poached and topped with mayonnaise and buttered with fragrant flaky butter/egg strands-sweet and succulent.

Braised Sea cucumber with earthy flavored Shiitake mushroom, sliced chewy Abalone Volute and served on the side with blanched Broccoli.

Hong Kong style Glutinous rice cooked with chicken ham, dried shrimp and garnished with chopped spring onion- was a bit sticky but fulfilling.

The sweet dessert of double boiled pear was filled with lots of white fungus and Lily bulbs- was nothing to shout about -the sweet fancy duets of Mua chi and pan cake complemented it well!

A toast to the newlywed! Yum Sing !!!!

CHOW YEE MEIN

Yee mein 0r dried egg noodle can be bought off the shelf, from the market, retail shops or the hypermarket. Usually eaten at any time of the day and is easy to cook.

1.A packet of Yee mein-cooked in boiling water and colander it-enough for two person.
2.Two pieces of Shiitake or straw mushroom-soak for awhile-cut into thin slices.
3. One piece of black fungus-cut into thin slices.
4.Coarsely chopped Chinese white cabbage-2 leaves.
5.Chicken fillet strips-50gms.
6.Fresh shrimp-shelled and de veined-50gms
7.Chopped garlic-3 cloves.
8.Thinly sliced carrot.

Heat up the wok with Extra Virgin olive oil.
Sauteed the garlic until fragrant.
Add in the chicken and shrimp.
Follow by straw mushroom, black fungus, carrot then cabbage.
Stir fry for 3 minutes, then add in the noodle.
Add some water, a teaspoon of dark soy sauce, constantly stir and fry.
And let it simmer for about 7 minutes.
Salt and pepper to taste.
And it's ready to serve.

Yee mein-egg noodle.

Straw mushroom and black fungus (good for lowering cholesterol).

Chicken fillet strips-add some tapioca flour to it-to get a smooth texture when it's cooked.

Fresh shrimps.

Chinese round white cabbage.

Chow yee mein-simple and delicious.

(POON CHOY)HOCK THAI RESTAURANT

Poon choy literally means vegetables in a basin, it is actually a Hakka specialty. In the old days they prepared it only on special occasions like festivals or weddings. The food are placed layer by layer on a big bowl and with a flame at the bottom to keep it warm. The one we had was considered to be a mini poon choy. You need to make a reservation, if it for a table of 10 person. When the food was finally served after about 45 minutes of waiting, we just dig in for the best ingredient first. All tables manners were ignored! Parking is no problem as this is a residential area.

This shop is located near the Yamaha music school at n0:2, SS2/103, Petaling Jaya


Poon choy-there are 15 ingredients in this metal bowl i.e. : prawns, fish paste, mini abalone, radish, wawa choy, fish maw, carrot, squid, button mushroom, bamboo clams, chicken meat, dried oyster, shiis take mushroom, dried scallop and yam-was fun trying to get to the best pieces first-truly appealing and invigorating-richly flavored.

Free -a plate of fried rice vermicelli-lots of beansprouts, dried shrimps Chinese cabbage and eggs : portion was just nice and overtly oily.

Stir fried paku choy (wild fern)-with dried shrimps and bird's eye chillies :a bit old -was not crunchy

Total bill:rm76/