cooking

I like to eat, and better still know what I am eating.

Meats.

Stir fry honey / sesame pork for 3-4 pax 

• 400-500gm pork shoulder butt / belly, sliced 

• Sesame oil - 2-3 tablespoons

• Honey - 2-3 tbsps

• Minced ginger - blob

• Hua Tiao Jiu - splash

• Garlic - chopped

Gyudon for 3-4 pax

• 500-600gm beef short plate (can substitute with pork sukiyaki / belly slices)

• Mirin 3-4 tablespoons

• Light soy 2-3 tablespoons

• Yellow onion x 2

Steamed.

Salmon

• Salmon slice steamed over a slow boil for ~8 mins

• Butter

Steamed eggs

• Proportion of egg to water - 1:1.2 (i.e. for 3 eggs of 60g each, 200-220 mls of water works well)

• Mirin - a splash

• Salt - a dash

Soft boiled eggs.

• If water is already boiled, lower room temp eggs into put and keep a slow boil for ~5mins. Take out and cool immediately. Can test doneness by cracking an egg.

• Room temp egg in room temp water, slow fire to bubbling boil, then 1-2 mins before turning off. 

Boiled vegetables.

• Self explanatory, put washed vegs in a pot of bubbling boiling water (salted) for a few minutes. Remove and mix with some oyster sauce. Add to any dish.

Personal favourites: bueh leng (chinese spinach), baby kailan, wongbok

One pot wonders.

Rice cooker rice

• Uncooked rice 2 scoops

• Total water 150mls (cabbage will have water, can reuse the water from rehydrating the dried seafood)

• 500g diced chicken

• Dried shrimp

• Dried scallops 

• Chopped garlic and onions (optional onion)

• Grated ginger

• Mushroom - cubed

• Oyster sauce - 2 tbsp

• Hua tiao jiu - drizzle

• Honey - 1 tbsp

• Light soy - 0.5 tbsp

• Dark soy - 1 tbsp

• Cut cabbage - just the green leafy parts

• Layer the washed rice, then the soaked dried seafood, add water, then chicken cubes, then the seasonings. Place the cabbage on top of everything.

• Without cabbage: 2 scoops rice, 150ml water (soaked with dried shrimp), 500gm chicken cubes, seasonings (1 tbsp mirin / oyster sauce / honey / light soy), chopped garlic and onions, diced mushroom.

Bak Kut Teh

• 1.2kg prime ribs

• ILC Bak Kut Teh spice packet

• Bean curd stick 1 pack

• Old garlic - lots, unpeeled

• Button mushrooms

• Serve with canned peanuts

Breakfast.

Overnight oats

• Rolled oats (best GI to taste performance ratio)

• Lactose free milk

• Yoghurt - vanilla bean

• Whey 

• Psyllium husk

• Honey

Beverages.

C's Umeshu

• Green plum 0.8-1kg

• Rock sugar 50-80% of plum 

• Shochu 35% ABV 1.8-2L

Rice wine

• Refer to TianK's PDF.