I just realised that Chinese food is actually cheaper to cook, yes I know we have the shark fins and stuff BUT having bought food for chinese cooking over the weekend, to feed 8, I only spent 100 SGD to cook the dishes. Now I know why Chinese Resto owners have huge a$$ fat wallets..... damn it!
Anyway, the Mrs decided to cook and wow did she cook a storm! My goodness.... I have tasted good food, but DANG! The dishes that she cooked were DA BOMB!!!! In today's edition, I'll just be describing the taste of the food to you all...... WHAHAHHAHAH gLee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Pissed Drunk Prawns
Man! Oh WOW!
The prawns were swimming in a full glass of Camus XO! A touch of garlic, parsley, white wine and oil were added to add flavour. Quick cooking these suckers for 5 minutes were enough to deliver a sucker punch to the tongue with the explosion of liquor, garlic and original sweetness of the prawns! Sucking the heads of the prawns made the world seem like a better day for just that few sucks that we all made. Bliss in a small package..... sucking prawn scum from its head. What better way to spend the 2nd day of 2010?!
1000 Herbs Chicken
I don't know what the Mrs added in this dish but I felt 'STRONGER' if you get the drift.... the intensity of the herbs made the chicken thighs go mad with full bodied flavour. And the stock that derived from the steaming of this dish for 5 hours made it SPOT ON.... I think, I can only compare the softness of the meat to the tenderness of a certain anatomy of a woman's body. The dancing of wolfberries, ginger, cordyceps, garlic, dried chinese scallops and black fungus in the mouth would make any weak human jump with joy.
Japanese Shrimp Rice
Where do I begin? The saltiness of the japanese shrimps infused with the wasabi seaweed strips just makes this rice dish a simple joy to eat.
The fluff of the rice was perfect and mated with half a cup of chicken stock as its cooking liquid added sheer delight to this oral pleasure. The picture perfect mating of greens and orange of the shrimps made this simple yet delicious rice dish a good reason for rice haters to put a huge serving into the mouth.
Minced Pork Stuff Squid
Beauty comes in many forms and in many ways. This beauty of a dish comes in the form of succulent squid stuffed till its about to pop with marinated minced pork mated with chopped chinese shrooms and chillis.
The sauce that came with this dish was a relatively fussless sambal blachan mixture of 1 tablespoon and chicken stock with 6 cut chilli padi. Combined with garlic and 1 tablespoon of canola oil into the baking tray, this squid will squirt its black cloud no more if it were to taste itself. Squid don't come close to being a beautiful dish, but this one is!!
3 Eggs and A Veg
To put in one word of how delightful this dish taste - SEXY. Looking at the colours that are finely mixed; orange, yellow, brown, green and golden drops (fried mini anchovies), the sheer joy of stuffing one's mouth with this healthy combination of salted egg, chicken egg, century egg, veg and mini anchovies automatically makes you healthy!
A quick douse of hot water unto the veg with a teaspoon of salt and leaving it to cook like that for 3 mins on the side w/o flame will get the veg tasting astonishingly perfect. In a pan of hot oil, fry the garlic and add some chicken stock / beef stock into it (1 cup) and then put in the beaten duck's eggs first. Constantly stiring for 1 minute and adding the chicken eggs next with the heat reduced to medium cook the concoction for another 2 minutes. Turn off the heat and let it rest at the side. Whilst you quickly put the veg into the serving bowl, make sure that the eggs are not over cooked so add 1/3 cup of water into the pan, after which you pour in the cooked eggs unto the veg and garnish it with century eggs and sprinkle the fried mini anchovies. Just like my Mrs, this is a DISH!
Ribeye Dices with Baby Oyster Shrooms
Who said that ribeyes must be used as steak only? This combination of
teriyaki marinated beef with baby oyster shrooms almost made me hear MOO with its freshness. The beef was stir fried to perfection in canola oil and let to rest before the shrooms were quickly allowed to sweat and cook in its own canopy of juices. Gorgeously mixed together for another 3 minutes, this allowed the ribeye to maintain its plump and veluptious sensation with every bite between the teeth. Please sir.... can I have some MOOrrrreeee?
Squid Tenticles with Roe in Black Pepper Sauce
Shock, shock, horror, horror at the sight of tenticles (reminds you of a scene from 20,000 leagues under the sea) These suckers were quite big in my book (I know of some mates who are also suckers) and they are normally fried in batter. But what we made was different - we dicided to mate these with minced pork and black fungus and fry them in black pepper sauce. The roe sacs of the squid made the overall taste that little bit more interesting and different. Closing my eyes, I felt like I was taken unto Atlantis with the excellent mix of tenticles / squid roe / minced pork / black fungus. At this moment, I felt like I was AQUAMAN (not AH KUA - tranny)
Pork Pig Just Got Slimmer
No Chinese meal is complete if you do not have the fatiness and heart dangering addition of stewed black soy sauce pork bellies. The fats of this dish simply made the Heart Foundation go ballistic. Having cooked this poor slab of a victim for 5 full hours, the fats were gone (yeah right.... who am I kidding). Enjoy! Food is afterall meant for enjoying!? Slow cooked to sheer Planet Fitness horror, this dish is traditionally a helping tool in many Chinese households as winter food. In our case, we were just a bunch of fat arses that wanted to gain weight! Ehr-be-deh... Ehr-be-deh... Deh-ats all folks!!!
