Fish paste Tofu.

Once in awhile my wife likes to cook and improve on certain kind of food that we ate in restaurants .

This Fish paste Tofu dish is common in most household but hard to find on many restaurant's menu.

The ingredients are:
White Tofu wrapped in Plastic container (available in market/supermarket).
Homemade fish paste (Ikan Tenggiri Papan-Spanish Mackerel)

Cut the Tofu into cubes of 1 inch thick and arrange it on a steel plate.
Scoop some fish paste and place it on top of the Tofu delicately.
Steam it for about ten minutes.
Drizzle it with some Tapioca starch reduction egg white gravy.
Garnish it with deep fried garlic/oil and finely chopped spring onion.
Ready to serve.

A delicious and quick meal for everyone in the family.

Frog Porridge@Restoran New Lucky

This porridge stall located in Restoran New Lucky in Seri Petaling is one of my favorite.

The husband and wife team are friendly and obliging.

Besides frog, there are White Promfret, Sea Prawn, Lala (Clam), Garouper and lots of Cilantro and chopped Spring Onion to go with the Porridge.

I, normally order Garouper fish fillet porridge but for a change I went for the farmed frog porridge which was average.

Parking is OK.

A packet of Tissue paper is provided to wipe up the sweat after eating the porridge-a great idea!

Chinese Crullers-a great combination with the porridge.

Frog Porridge served on a piping hot Clay pot-white gooey translucent porridge mixed with Cilantro and chopped Spring onion-the tender and sweet frog meat were cut into bite sizes but I prefer those wild ones !-Rm13/

Scooped the porridge into a smaller bowl for cooling purpose and easy eating.

Location:Jalan Radin 1,
Corner Coffee Shop,
Seri Petaling, Kuala Lumpur.

Deep fried Wanton wrapped Prawn & Wanton Pork.

Hoong, a close relative of mine, is a novice weekend cook.

Her initial plans was to make Popiah and deep fried Wanton Pork and Wanton wrapped Prawn.

After cooking the fillings of shredded yam bean, grated carrots, cucumber, beansprouts and shrimps, she found out that she bought Wanton wrappers instead of Popiah skins (a soft paper-thin crepe made from wheat flour) !
So, we ended up eating the fillings as a dish by itself.

The deep fried Wanton Pork and Wanton wrapped Prawns were good as a snack-very crispy but the prawn tasted a bit coarse (she used the Udang Pasir, Sea prawns would be a much better choice).

Nicely wrapped prawn marinated with salt and pepper before frying.

Ready to serve !

YE Traditional Dumplings

Duan Wu Jie (Rice Dumpling Festival) falls on the 5th day of the 5th month in the Chinese Lunar calendar i.e. 16/06/21010.
It is celebrated among the Chinese to pay respect to a patriotic poet Qu Yuan who sacrificed his life by jumping into the Puo Luo River.
Dumplings were then thrown into the river by fishermen to prevent the fishes from eating his body !

Nowadays, dumplings is sold throughout the year in restaurants, hawker center, street corners and wherever there are Chinese people.

YE Traditional Dumplings located in Pandan Jaya served many types of dumplings in their restaurant.

The choices are mouthwatering like dumplings with white rice, organic brown rice, abalone, Sambal dried shrimps, Nyonya style...etc
They even accept orders for special ingredients Dumplings i.e.- at a different price ??

Workers making the Dumplings.

Golden Chang-long rectangular, shaped like a pillow and bamboo leaves wrapped-white glutinous rice filled with Chinese sausage, dried oyster, pork belly, salted duck egg, sliced mushroom and dried chestnut-the glutinous rice was tight and firm and the ingredients were not too salty-enough for two persons-Rm8.80/

Sambal Dried Shrimps Chang-wrapped in a triangle shape by two bamboo leaves-the glutinous rice were a bit loose and the fillings of coarsely chopped dried shrimps with spicy and hot Sambal was heavenly !-Rm5.80/

Note:Hemp strings should be a better alternative to those plastic strings.

Location:8G, Jalan Pandan Jaya 3/9,
Pandan Jaya, Kuala Lumpur.
Tel:03-9284-5325.

Delicious Dinner 37.

A series of home cooked dinner by my wife.

Garouper Fish-lightly batter and deep fried and topped with a mixture of chopped onion, slivers of red chillies, spring onion and a squeeze of zesty Lemon juice-crispy crust and fresh!

Chicken thigh meat wrapped with a piece of bacon-oven cooked-full of natural juices from the combination.

Stir fried Chinese Long Cabbage-chopped coarsely and cooked with matchstick carrot and fresh juicy shrimp.