Lady's fingers with oyster sauce

Ingredients:

• 10 lady's fingers
  
• 2 gloves garlic (diced)
  
• 2 small red anions (diced)
  
• 2 tbs oyster sauce
• water

Methods:

• Put the lady's finger into a soup pot cover with water and bring to boil till the lady's finger just cooked. Arrange on a plate. Set aside.
• In a frying pan, heat the oil and fry the garlic and red onions till fragrant and slightly brown. Pour on top of the cooked lady's fingers. 
• Lastly, pour the oyster sauce on top.  Serve.

Tip :  Do not cut the lady's finger up for cooking.  The sweetness will be retained this way.

Bitter Gourd with Chinese Sausage

We enjoyed this dishes very much.  I would say the sweet and saltiness of the Chinese sausage blend very well with the bitterness of bitter gourd. :D

Pork with mixed vegetable soup

This is one of my soup recipe.

Pork with mixed vegetable soup. You could find carrot, tomatoes, celery, potatoes and Taiwanese pak choy in this bowl of soup.

There is no specific measurement on how much of each ingredient I used. So feel free to try, you will love it!

Crunchy green pepper with minced beef

I love to eat raw green pepper with other vegetable as salad, I also like it slightly cooked to maintain it crunchiness just like this one I cooked with minced beef and onions. I purposely made a lot of sauce with it so that my girls can mix the sauce with rice as I did not boil any soup for their meals that day.

Chinese Long Beans with eggs

Chinese long beans also known as yardlong bean. It is a widely grown plant in the warmer part of the South East Asia countries and Southern China.

I bought 300g of the organic Chinese long beans at RM9.00 per kilo, enough to make a dish for dinner.

I diced the beans into smaller pieces, fried with some garlic and eggs. One of the simplest dishes that I cook.

Porridge with Goji berry and dried Scallop

Ingredients (5-6 servings):

• 2 cups rice
• a handful of dried goji berries or wolfberries
• 2 pieces of dried scallops
• sufficient amount of water
• salt, seasoning & sesame oil to taste

Methods

• Wash the rice;
• put all ingredients into the soup pot;
• add sufficient water (more water is required to cook porridge and water can be added on from time to time as required);
• bring to boil and turn the fire to the lowest;
  
• continue to cook till all ingredients are soften, add in salt and seasoning to taste;
• add in some sesame oil just before serving

Tip : leave the pot uncovered while cooking using gas or electrical stove to avoid overflow when it is being boiled.

China Garden Restaurant dishes on Chloe's 1st birthday

These are the selection of dishes that my brother picked for Chloe's 1st birthday at the China Garden Restaurant at Bukit Padang last weekend.

Cucumber pickles, the appetizer

the birthday eggs wrapped with red coloured plastic paper

battered prawns

the long life noodles, there supposed to be sauces on top of it but the waiters served the noodles too fast before the kitchen add on the sauces. It a bit dry and hard as result.

the fried chicken

the tau fu

the lamb

the fish

the vegetable and dried bean curd