Ayam Goreng Kunyit Recipe [Turmeric Fried Chicken 炸黄姜鸡]

Hello everyone, today I am going to share the recipe of a dish that I really love: Ayam Goreng Kunyit! When I was still studying in secondary school, my grandma used to cook this dish for my family and I every other week and we will finish it in a matter of minutes. After I moved to Kedah, I had many meals in Malay restaurants where they serve this dish too, but none of them taste even half as good as the one my grandmother made. Those that are sold outside are just so bland in taste and texture... and I blame that on using turmeric powder instead of using real pounded turmeric. I have been longing for my grandmother's turmeric fried chicken so I decided to make them for my family and myself last weekend when I was home. It was a last minute decision so I did not manage to consult my grandmother beforehand... but it turns out to be 90% similar. Hehehe, maybe I should cook this dish again for my grandma to try one day and see if she approves.

Can you see all the crunchy fried turmeric at the top? How to get this if you use
turmeric powder only? Impossible! Good food requires hard work too!

Ingredients: Serves 4-5 people

4 whole chicken leg

6-7 bulbs of turmeric

3 tbsp of salt

Cooking oil

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Red Braised Pork Belly 红烧肉 (Hong Shao Rou) Recipe

Hello folks, Happy Winter Solstice to everyone! Tonight is supposed to be the shortest day of the year (so obviously night time is going to be longer). For the Chinese, today we celebrate 冬至 which literally means winter solstice festival in English. We will prepare glutinous rice ball (tong yuen) in the morning and offer some for prayers before eating them ourselves later in the day. They used to say every year you eat tong yuen and that signifies that you're getting one year older. Every year, Winter Solstice is an important day as my extended family will all gather together and have a great feast for dinner! With a great feast, comes a long day of slaving away in the kitchen preparing dish after dish of food for the dinner. Today I am going to share the recipe of a dish which I just made for the first time ever: 红烧肉! The source of inspiration for this dish is due to all the mainland chinese dramas that I've been watching previously where they keep bringing up this dish! Hehe...

Ingredients:

600g of pork belly

40g of rock sugar (crushed - about one small rice bowl)

4 cloves of garlic

10 g of ginger (approx. 1 inch block)

10 g of the white parts of green onions

2 tbsp of soy sauce

1 tbsp of cooking wine

1 1/2 tsp of salt

4-5 tbsp of cooking oil

Water

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Wonton Soup recipe

Yesterday, I suggested that we have wontons for dinner as I bought a packet of wonton skins about two weeks back and I still haven't used it yet. Since both he and I had a nearly empty fridge except for the wonton skins and also meat, he agreed to have only wontons and rice for dinner. Hehe :D 

I suggested that we make wonton soup as we have been eating mostly fried stuff for two days straight. But, after wrapping all the wontons, he decided that there are too many wontons and putting all of them into the soup would spoil the dish. Hence, he fried half of them. We ended up having both wonton soup and also fried wonton, with rice! Still, since this post is about wonton soup, I'll only focus on wonton soup. 

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Fried Nestum Chicken Recipe

Today I am going to introduce one of my boyfie's signature dish: Nestum Chicken! It is similar to frying chicken fillets with a coating of breadcrumbs. The only difference is, the chicken fillet are coated with Nestum oats and they taste and smell ten times better! Oh my, I can literally smell the aroma of the Nestum while blogging about it. Such a dish, it is a crowd pleaser. This I can definitely assure you. It is good for picky kiddos, hungry teenagers, and even the elders! Usually I serve Nestum chicken as a side dish with rice but we can always just make it as a fun snack.

Ingredients: Serves about 4-5 people

3 pieces of chicken keel (de-boned and the meat is cut into bite size fillet strips like above)

200g of Nestum oat

300g of all-purpose flour

2 large eggs (beaten)

Oil

Marinade:

2 tbsp of soy sauce

1 1/2 tbsp of oyster sauce

Pepper

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Loh Mee Recipe [ 卤面 ]

Hello! It's been a looong time since I posted a new recipe despite the fact that I went through a long holiday. I had been super busy all holiday that I didn't have much time to experiment with new recipes. Two days ago, I was shopping for groceries in Tesco and I saw the thick yellow egg noodles for sale. My immediate thought was, "Gosh, I miss having Loh Mee...". The Loh Mee that I crave for isn't the type that we can usually find in northern Malaysia where they use thin yellow noodles and have a darker broth. The Loh Mee that I crave for tastes a little bit like shark-fin soup as it is served with black vinegar and it looks like this! 

Ingredients: (Serves 2 big portions)

400g of thick yellow egg noodles

150g of sawi bunga (choy sam， 菜心)

350g of boneless chicken breast meat

2 eggs

80g of fish cake

2 small garlic whole bulbs

1 cube of chicken bouillon cube

Light soy sauce

Black vinegar

Salt

Sugar

Cornflour

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Simple ABC Soup [Rice Cooker recipe]

*drumrolls* MY FIRST SOUP MEAL DONE RIGHT IN MY LITTLE RICE COOKER ♥

Okay, I am so excited about this post because I finally figured out how to make soup using my rice cooker. God only knows, how MUCH I heart soup. Lotus soup, arrow root soup, herbal soup, seaweed soup, onion soup, miso soup, egg drop soup, ABC soup, any soup! You name it. I am a huge fan of you, soup. ☺

ABC soup with corn ♥♥♥

Ingredients:

1 medium sized corn

1 medium sized carrot

1 large potato

1 large onion

3 medium sized tomatoes

1 cube of chicken stock

1 bottle of Brands Essence of Chicken

1 liter of water

Pepper 

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驰名桥下云吞面 [Alor Setar Famous Wan Tan Mee]

This post will be about a family-business which sells Wan Tan Mee at their own house. Uh-huh, if you're finding for this Wan Tan Mee restaurant, do think of a single storey terrace house ☺

This is the plate of Wan Tan Mee which really looks small in portion when it
first arrived on our table. But as we all know, Wan Tan Mee is pretty standard.
If you order small, you get 1 ball of noodle. If you order big, you get two balls!

Now, this is the add-on soup that we ordered. Unlike the normal dried
Wan Tan Mee, you do not automatically get a bowl of free soup together
with the noodles. You have to order it separately like this.
PS: THIS IS TO DIE FOR. YUMMMMMS!

I remember that we reached the stall around 6.30PM in the evening. Since we were there before the opening time, we had to wait before they take orders. By the time they took our order, there was already a small little crowd sitting around waiting for food. To order, just go to the stall and tell the person what you want to eat. There's not much choice really. Just Wan Tan Mee, Wan Tan soup, white chicken and also char-siew. After ordering, be prepared to wait patiently for your food to come. I think boyfie and I waited for like more than half an hour before that mini-plate of noodle was placed on our table.

This shop is located below a bridge, the Jalan Alor Mengkudu bridge. Well, I call it that way because I saw a road sign labeling the road towards the bridge as Jalan Alor Mengkudu. I am not from Alor Setar so I can't really describe the place well. 

We parked the car right outside the terrace house, so I was able to take a shot
of the front of the shop. Well, the shop is on the left side, not the gated right side.

We gave our order to this uncle. He has been cutting chicken and pork ever
since we set foot in the house. But he remembers our order well :)

The boss of this stall would be the man behind there, holding the super
delicious looking piece of char siew! In this picture, you can also see that
they also bought the other house on the right hand side. Many customers
found a table and sat there to wait for their noodle.

Location of the shop:

Stall 1001B, Bee Bee Park

Jalan Alor Mengkudu,

Alor Setar.

Opening hours:

7.00PM - 11.30PM

(CLOSED ON SATURDAYS)

Happy eatin' ☺

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Sweet Potato Porridge [Rice Cooker Recipe]

After many days of eating out, I decided that I should make porridge for dinner tonight. I know, I have OSCE and OSPE tomorrow and I should be studying... but honestly, I feel like exam is already over. Happens every time, especially the day right before the exam starts. In the past 4 months I've sat through 3 major exams at least and many uncountable minor ones, so that accounts for almost 1 major paper every month. A normal human being, like me, will definitely feel numb towards the thought of exam after all these repeated cycles. 

Hence, I decided I should just screw studying like I've never studied before and have a nice afternoon nap before getting up to prepare my dinner at 5PM! :D

Ingredients: [Serves 1 person]

1 medium sized Japanese sweet potato

1 medium sized onion

Half a cup of rice

400ml of water

Salt

Pepper

Soy Sauce (Optional)

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Dai You Bin Restaurant [大优宾点心]

Last Sunday, boyfie and I went out and headed to a new breakfast hunting spot in Sungai Petani. Yup, it is in a restaurant kind of shop rather than a normal kopitiam and it serves Dim Sum.

Before I continue on this post, I have got to clarify that certain pictures in this post are taken from Google while others which are watermarked are my own photos. I just didn't think of taking many pictures that day as there were many people and it was quite rush.

This is the exterior of the shop which you can see the moment you drive by.
It's time to find for a good parking by the time you see this shop from far.

and... this is the entrance. 

Now, moving on to our DIM SUM :D

Just to let you all know, this dim sum restaurant is totally self service from top to bottom. You've got to grab your own dim sum, refill the hot water by yourself, and even when you want to takeaway any dim sum, you'll have to bring the dim sum to another place so that the worker can 'da bao' for you. Oh wells!

This is the steam cart where you choose all your steamed dim sum and
carry them to your table by  yourself on a tray.
Oh, remember to bring the paper that they will provide you with, as
they will tick the dim sum that you've taken on that little long paper.

Now, THIS!
This is what we kinda sorta chose that day. It don't look much
but it was filling enough for 2 person that day. I think the leaf-
wrapped rice was about RM 4, while the rest of the dim sum are
around RM 3 - 3.50 per plate.

Each egg tart cost RM 1.50 ♥
This is my favourite dim sum from this restaurant.

All in all, I would say that I expected better quality dim sum from a specialized restaurant like this one. In my opinion, the dim sum here is not exactly cheap too but I guess I expected such a price range the moment I step into the restaurant. Well, no harm trying new things :)

Location of the shop:

1-13 Lebuh Intan, 

Sungai Petani, 

08000 Kedah 

Opening hours: Mostly for breakfast and brunch.

Breakfast hunting Spot #3, done!

Happy eatin' ☺

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Breakfast in Sungai Petani - Lou Yu Kopitiam [老友小贩中心]

Another Saturday morning has come! Been really busy for the past week, studying for minor papers and also settling assignments which are due next week. Now that at least one assignment is almost done yesterday, I would say I can breath a little easier now. Well, at least for this weekend. So, this morning, boyfie and I headed out for our breakfast hunting again after a certain period of time. Today, we went to this local coffee shop called Lou Yu Kopitiam which is pretty good if you ask me. They have a good variety of food available to choose from, which is rare in the case of Sungai Petani.

The shop is a corner lot and look quite big. You can see it from the main road.
The interior is cooling as it is very well shaded using the blinds.
Good atmosphere to eat!

I actually have been to this coffee shop twice. I decided to try on more food first, before I blog about it. This morning, I had quite a lot of food since we ordered some add ons besides our bowl of noodle. Super full now, while I type this blog post! ☺

Duck Meat Kuey Teow Soup ♥ RM 3.50

Dry Beef Noodles with Soup ♥ RM 5

Char Kuey Teow with Duck Eggs ♥ RM 3.50

Tom Yam Noodles with Fried Fish ♥ RM 4.50

Tau Fu Fah ♥ RM 1.20

I shall call this EGG IN MEAT ♥ RM 1.50 per half

Location of the shop:

151, Jalan Masjid 1, 

Sungai Petani,

08000 Kedah.

Opening hours: Breakfast, Brunch and Lunch time

So, do the food in the pictures stir up your cravings? Heeheehee. Breakfast hunting Spot #2, done!

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Batu 14 Puchong Yong Tau Foo [Kota Kemuning Branch]

During my holidays back home, I was always indecisive on what to eat because there was just too many choices. Like, I feel like eating everything but I just can't seem to choose one! One fateful night, we were not very hungry but we still had to find for dinner because my mother is simply the kind of person that insists her daughters have 3 proper meals a day. I didn't know what to eat and suddenly she said, "Want to have Yong Tau Fu? Kota Kemuning there got open a new branch of Puchong Yong Tau Fu, we can try." So, there we go!

This is the exterior of the shop! 

The inside of the shop is more modern and cleaner compared to the original branch.

Tadaaaa! Yong Tau Fu with soup ♥ The soup is fantastic okay!

These are the fried stuff. I personally love the fried things more!
YUM YUM YUM ♥♥♥

Erm, I first got to know about Puchong Yong Tau Fu when my uncle brought me to the original Puchong branch which is opposite a chinese school, Sekolah Jenis Kebangsaan Han Ming. I really loved it very much and had been going back to the Puchong branch for a few times since then. Well, just google about Puchong Yong Tau Fu and you will find tonnes of photos and information about this great food haven.

About this Kota Kemuning branch, if I were to give a landmark, I would say that the restaurant is located right next to (or right behind) the Bukit Rimau AEON Big hypermarket. It is very close really, walking distance only. It is totally obscured from the main road, so you'll have to turn into the area to see the restaurant.

When you arrive at this restaurant, just choose a table first and remember the table number. Then, head over to the place where you can see all the raw vegetables and other bean curd stuffs. At that counter, you just grab a basket and take anything you want to eat. Hand the basket over to the person-in-charge at the counter and they will automatically help you decide which are going to enter the soup and which are going to be fried. Of course, you can specifically tell them how to cook it if you want, but most of the time I just leave it to them. Tell them your table number and you decide whether you want to add fishballs or other stuff into your soup base. They will serve it to you later.

Besides Yong Tau Fu, you can also order other side dished like Paper-wrapped chicken （纸包鸡）, stir-fried vegetables, chicken dishes, etc. Honestly, I can't comment on these dishes because I have never had them  before! I always head there to have their yummy Yong Tau Fu only, teehee! ☺

Location of the shop:

Puchong Branch (the original restaurant)

Lot 105, Batu 14, 

Jalan Besar, 

Kampung Baru Puchong 

47100, Puchong, Selangor

Kota Kemuning Branch

Jalan Sungai Burung U32/U (Seksyen 32), 

Bukit Rimau, Selangor

Happy eatin' ☺

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Seng Huat Bak Kut Teh [盛发肉骨茶] The famous 'under the bridge' Klang Bak Kut Teh!

I've been idle for a few weeks now, since I've an upcoming exam this Friday (which is in less than 2 days)! I've just came back to campus yesterday... after a whole lot of drama, teehee. So, during the holidays, I did try to bake macarons but they failed terribly so I was really disappointed. Other than that, I had a lot of good delicious food while being home so I guess I am going to introduce them to you guys!

Today, I am going to tell you about this famous Klang Bak Kut Teh. This is the place where I'll have to go with my grandparents for breakfast on every Saturday morning when I'm home because my grandfather have been loyally visiting this restaurant for 30 over years, according to him of course. If you're Malaysian, you'll find many shops selling Bak Kut Teh claiming that they are a branch from 'under the Klang bridge'. Well, this is to show how famous this original shop is, and how people like my grandfather keep going back to the same shop for over 30 years. Even I wasn't born yet!

The pork meat comes in small little bowls like this, more traditional way
compared to the claypot Bak Kut Teh. They have 油条 too!

You can buy tea leaves from them or you can choose to bring your own
tea leaves. My Grandpa obviously brings his own tea leaves ☺☺☺

You can also order pig stomach slices and pig intestines if you're into that
kind of stuff. I personally like the stomach slices only, not the intestines!

Yummeh! 

The shop has a few branches in other places but I always visit the Klang branch only. Anyway, this place has another plus point. If you go during the weekends, many people would anticipate a larger crowd but don't worry as there are extra parking under the bridge (which is directly next to the shop).

See? You can park many cars here. 

This is the side of the shop, where we always sit. The interior of the shop is
smaller than the outside hence, I think it is stuffy. I prefer to sit here where it
is cooler and nearer to our car. See that stairs in the picture? Yup, it leads to
the bridge above us!

Since this shop is famous, it has its own website. It is a pretty complete website, if you ask me. They even have a photo gallery to publicize the celebrities who came and tasted their Bak Kut Teh! Not bad huh?

For more information, click here for Seng Huat Bak Kut Teh website.

Location of the shop:

KLANG BRANCH

No.9, Jalan Besar, 41000 Klang
Selangor Daru Ehsan, Malaysia

Contact number: 012-309 8303 / 012-385 5154
Opens Daily from: 7.30am - 12.30pm
                           5.30pm -  8.30pm

This is really a must-try place if you're a Bak Kut Teh lover! You'll never regret it :D

Happy eatin' ☺

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Breakfast in Sungai Petani - Fish Head Bee Hun Noodles, Kuey Teow Soup, Seafood Porridge and Meat Porridge

Boyfie and I decided that we should start with our breakfast hunting in Sungai Petani since we didn't know what kind of food is there available in the the mornings. To our surprise, as we travelled through town area there are quite a number of kopitiam (local coffee shop) which are open in the morning! The night before, I did some online research to find for places which serve breakfast in Sungai Petani and I found this little coffee shop which sells Bee Hun soup and also Kuey Teow soup. So, this morning, we headed out looking for this coffee shop which apparently is situated very near to the traffic light turning into Taman Patani Jaya. We can still see it from the main road towards Central Square.

Fish Head Bee Hun Noodle

This is the only stall selling food in the morning. The rest of the stalls are
closed. Most of the food from this shop cost RM 5, except for the Kuey
Teow Soup which cost RM 3.

This is the coffee shop's name! SIN HER PIAN RESTAURANT ☺

In my opinion, the noodle was a bit too bland for my taste. It would have tasted loads better if it was a bit more saltier or with a stronger soup. But then again, that's just my personal preference! So, breakfast hunting Spot #1 is done! I saw many more other places this morning in which we will definitely try out the next time!

Happy eatin' ☺

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Egg-Drop Porridge with Seaweed for a Single Person Serving (Rice Cooker Recipe)

Woke up late today after dozing off for an evening nap, so I was lazy to go down to the cafeteria for dinner. Coincidentally, the cafeteria was also suppose to be serving porridge for dinner today... heehee! Anyway, I decided I should make my own porridge despite not having any extra ingredients except the left over eggs I had from making the egg mayo sandwich. Soooo, I created this egg-drop porridge tonight for dinner ☺

Ingredients:

3 soup spoons of uncooked white rice

1 large egg

450ml of water

Soy sauce

Pepper

Seasoned seaweed

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Curry Mee with Fish Fillet and Pork Ribs

So, yesterday I woke up damn early just to try this legendary Curry Mee in Sungai  Petani. We went there around 8AM in the morning but it is not ready for sale yet. The uncle told us to come back around 9 something in which we did! The line was already very long by the time we reached there and we had to queue for about 30 minutes or so. 

Anyway, you can choose to have Fish Fillet only, or Pork Ribs only, or both in your bowl of noodle. Mine is a mixture of Bihun (Rice Vermicilli) and Mee, with a combo of Fish Fillet and Pork Ribs! The average bowl of noodle will cost you RM5, but my bowl of noodle cost RM6 because I took the combo of fish and pork. 

YUMMYLICIOUS!!!

PS: The pork ribs will usually sell out by lunch time and the fish fillet will follow by soon!

The location of the curry noodle stall:

EUPE Foodcourt 優賓飲食廣場

Jalan Kuda Kepang, Taman Ria Jaya

08000 Sungai Petani, Kedah.

Opening hours: 9AM till whenever the noodle is sold out (usually by 1-2PM)

It is not often that we see such special combinations in a bowl of curry mee, even in Malaysia! 

Definitely worth a try! :)

Happy eatin' ☺

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Nasi Lemak Ong 「椰浆饭」 and Herbal Pork Ribs Misua 「排骨面线」

Yesterday, I travelled to Alor Setar mainly in search of the public library because the whole of my campus was cut off from electricity supply for almost the whole day due to maintainence purposes. Without doubt, food was the other main priority on the list!

We arrived around 9.20am at Alor Setar and he drove me to a local kopitiam selling Misua in Herbal soup 药材汤. You can choose whether you want the meat in it to be duck meat, chicken meat or pork ribs! I chose the pork ribs while he had the chicken one. 

If you could smell through the picture, guess you would've started to want some too because it is super delicious. Price for my bowl of noodle was RM 4.50 even though the portion is really smaller than usual for me. If you are really if craving for some, below is the location of the shop! 

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Robert's Stall - Great 'dua ban', Chinese porridge and Yee Mee

'Dua ban' (a hokkien word) is actually what we call 滑蛋河 in Cantonese (or at least what we call it in KL). After coming to Semeling, only did I have the chance to venture into this small Kampung Semeling where everybody knows everybody. Students from my university frequent these local stores for lunch and dinner because they are cheap and big in portions. They are really tasty too, alright!

A plate of dua ban like above will cost about RM 4.50 to RM 5.50, depending on whether you want or don't want the fish meat. Just look at the size of the prawn and you will know how worthy it is! 

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Chinese Carrot Cake 萝卜糕

Today's post would be about the carrot cake a made during my holidays a few weeks ago. This particular dish is one of my favorite childhood snack as it is really yummy with its soft texture!

Yes, the picture above is my carrot cake after I pan-fried them a little to make them tastier! ☺

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