Sweet Braised Pork belly

This is the dish every kid loves because it is sweet, soft and gluey ^^ It can be eaten with steamed rice or with fried rice and chilli sauce. It is really simple to cook and doesn't have too many ingredients.

Ingredients :

• 600 g Pork belly cut into 1cm wide strips
• 2 Tbsp Shallots sliced
• 4 Tbsp Palm sugar or brown sugar
• 2 Tbsp fish sauce
• 2 Tbsp dark soy sauce
• 2 Tbsp cooking oil

Method :

Heat the oil in the wok on high heat.

Add shallots and stir until it fragrant then add the pork belly. Stir well.

Add the remaining ingredients, stir well (if it looks dry, you can add a little water into the wok)

Turn the heat down and leave it cooking until the sauce thickens. Turn the heat off and serve. 

Thai Green Papaya spicy salad or Som Tum

Thai Green Papaya spicy salad or Som Tum

This is the most famous salad in Thailand. The original dish came from North-eastern Thai/Laos. Ever since I was a kid, this dish was always around and everyone loves it. When I grew up, lived and worked in Bangkok, I had this dish everyday for lunch, especially when I wanted to loose weight!! 

There are several versions of it. Sometimes people use shredded carrot instead of green papaya. All kinds of hard fruit like guava or apple can be use as well. 

In this recipe I added cooked seafood into the dish to make it more luxurious ;P 

Ingredients :

• 2 hand full Shredded Green Papaya (Paw Paw)
• 1/2 Cup chopped cherry tomatoes
• 1/2 Cup green bean cut 2cm long (In the photo I used some cabbage as it was all had in the fridge at that time :P) 
• 1 Cup seafood mixed (cooked)
• 1Tbsp fish sauce
• 1Tbsp lime juice
• 1Tbsp palm sugar or brown sugar
• 2 Cloves garlic
• Red eye chilli (choose your own level of spiciness)

Methods :

Add garlic and chilli in mortar and pestle and crush together.

Add tomatoes, fish sauce, sugar and lime juice and mix it together using pestle, lightly crushing  the tomatoes. Taste. The taste should be combination of spicy, salty and sour.
Pour the mixture into a salad bowl and add green beans and papaya.
Mix well
Add cooked seafood into salad and mix well.
Serve with grilled chicken or BBQ pork and sticky rice :)

Halloween lunch - Nightmare before Christmas

Menu today > Fried chicken :)

I marinated the chicken thighs with soy sauce, sugar, pepper and salt and kept in the fridge over night. I took them out in the morning,dusted with plain flour and fried it.

I prepared the rice by using cling wrap to help shaped it up the way I wanted it to look like.

Laid lettuce leaves on the bottom and put rice ball on the top of that.

Add some extra decoration like carrot and seaweed. Don't forget to arrange everything as tight as you can so that it won't move during transportation. :)

Seasoned Pork mince and Flying fish roe rolls

Ingredients :

• 600g Pork mince
• Fish roe (Available at Asian supermarket in frozen food section)
• 2 stalks coriander roots
• 2 cloves garlic
• 1 Tsp Black Pepper corn
• 1 Tbsp Soy Sauce
• 1 Tbsp Sugar
• Pinch of salt 
• 1/2 Tsp Chicken powder
• 1 Tbsp Corn flour
• 3 Tbsp water
• Roasted Seaweed sheet

Method :
Mash together coriander roots, garlic and black pepper corn using mortar and pestle.
Add pork mince and all remaining ingredients including coriander and garlic paste into blender and blend it until it becomes a paste. Set aside.
Put seaweed on sushi mat then spread the pork paste evenly on the sheet. Place fish roe on the top of the mince paste.
Roll them up the same way you are making sushi.
Wrap roll in cling wrap and steam for around 15 minutes until firm.