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		<title>Nice video on Malaysian Hawker food</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is not a recipe post, but found this video funny (as in replacing the lyrics with names of various hawker food, and sang in Hokkien). Enjoy

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		<title>French Toast</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 10:58:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
This is a very easy breakfast or snack to make.
Ingredients (serve 2-3)

2 eggs
2 tablespoon sugar
6 slice of white bread
some oil for pan frying

Method

Crack the 2 eggs on a plate that has slight depth.  Add in sugar and whisk with spoon or fork till sugar dissolved.
Heat up a frying pan, add some oil.
For ever slice of [...]]]></description>
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<p>This is a very easy breakfast or snack to make.</p>
<p><strong>Ingredients (serve 2-3)</strong></p>
<ol type="1">
<li>2 eggs</li>
<li>2 tablespoon sugar</li>
<li>6 slice of white bread</li>
<li>some oil for pan frying</li>
</ol>
<p><strong>Method</strong></p>
<ol type="1">
<li>Crack the 2 eggs on a plate that has slight depth.  Add in sugar and whisk with spoon or fork till sugar dissolved.</li>
<li>Heat up a frying pan, add some oil.</li>
<li>For ever slice of bread, dip it into the egg to coat both sides.  Do not press to allow the bread to absorb the egg, just dip and allow the sides to be coated with eggs.  Put immediately on the pan to fry flip over when lightly brown,</li>
<li>Serve warm.</li>
<li>You can eat it just like that, or spread with peanut butter, or drip with honey,</li>
</ol>
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		<title>Fry Singapore Hokkien Prawn Mee (炒福建虾面)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 10:37:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This was posted on request by one of WeryNice readers (name withheld), thanks for your email.  This is a very common hawker food in Singapore and you can find this in most hawker centers.  Don&#8217;t know when it started, but hawkers are already selling this since the 70&#8217;s as I recalled.
Ingredients (serve 2)

1 bowl Yellow noodles
1 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This was posted on request by one of WeryNice readers (name withheld), thanks for your email.  This is a very common hawker food in Singapore and you can find this in most hawker centers.  Don&#8217;t know when it started, but hawkers are already selling this since the 70&#8217;s as I recalled.</p>
<p><strong>Ingredients (serve 2)</strong></p>
<ol type="1">
<li>1 bowl Yellow noodles</li>
<li>1 bowl Bee hoon (thick or thin are ok, I prefer thin)</li>
<li>250 grams Pork belly</li>
<li>8 mid size prawn</li>
<li>1 mid size Squid (sotong)</li>
<li>2 eggs</li>
<li>4 table spoon soya sauce</li>
<li>1 teaspoon salt</li>
<li>4 bowls water (some will dry up in cooking)</li>
<li>4 garlic</li>
<li>5 tablespoon oil (lard can be use for better taste)</li>
<li>chilli paste, and calamansi for serving</li>
</ol>
<p><strong>Method</strong></p>
<ol type="1">
<li>Wash the pork belly, prawn and squid. For the squid cut away the eyes and also using fingers, squeeze out the little ball from the mouth of the squid.  Pull out the head and remove the internals. Peel off the skin with help of finger nails of a small knife.</li>
<li>Bring the water to boil in a pot, add in salt, put in the pork belly and simmer for 1 hr.  Remove the pork belly and set a side.  Put in the prawn and squid to boil for 10 mins until cook.  Remove and set aside.  Keep the stock, strain it over a sieve if necessary.</li>
<li>Remove the shell of the prawn and set a side.  Cut the pork into thin strips (1/2 cm thick) and cut the squid into rings.</li>
<li>Peel and chop garlic.</li>
<li>Heat up wok, and add in some oil and chopped garlic and fry till fragrant. Add in yellow noodles and bee hoon and fry. Add in the soya sauce.  Using the stirrer cut the noodles into short strands (or you can cut before cooking).</li>
<li>Move the noodles to a side or scoop it out, add the remaining oil and crack in the eggs to fry.  Scramble the eggs immediately, and allow it to fry till solid.  Mix in the noodles, and add in the stock.  Cover the work and allow it to simmer for 5 mins,</li>
<li>Open the cover, add in the pork, prawn, squid and stir.  Add more soya sauce to taste if required.  Serve on plate.</li>
<li>Before eating, mix with chilli paste (easier to buy from supermarket for small amount, best with dried shrimps or belachan), and freshly squeeze calamansi.</li>
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		<title>Singapore Airlines Cookbook</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 01:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I thought some of Werynice readers may find this interesting.  Check the link below. 
Abstract from site: 
http://www.singaporeair.com/saa/en_UK/content/exp/dining/icp_cookbook/index.jsp
Begin quote &#8220;Singapore Airlines is pleased to present its latest culinary venture, &#8220;Above and Beyond&#8221;, its very own cookbook comprising a collection of 50 exciting recipes from ten award-winning chefs from its International Culinary Panel.
Set up by the Airline in [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I thought some of Werynice readers may find this interesting.  Check the link below. </p>
<p>Abstract from site: </p>
<p><a href="http://www.singaporeair.com/saa/en_UK/content/exp/dining/icp_cookbook/index.jsp">http://www.singaporeair.com/saa/en_UK/content/exp/dining/icp_cookbook/index.jsp</a></p>
<p>Begin quote &#8220;Singapore Airlines is pleased to present its latest culinary venture, &#8220;Above and Beyond&#8221;, its very own cookbook comprising a collection of 50 exciting recipes from ten award-winning chefs from its International Culinary Panel.</p>
<p>Set up by the Airline in September 1998, the panel comprises award-winning chefs from the culinary capitals of the world. The Panel works closely with the Airline&#8217;s own chefs, to specially create the unique selection that is available on board.</p>
<p>Published by Marshall Cavendish International (Asia), the cookbook features tantalising dishes (2 appetisers, 2 main courses and 1 dessert) from each of the chefs. The recipes are carefully selected for flavour and taste, and presented in each chef&#8217;s personal style.</p>
<p>In short, it&#8217;s a cookbook that will appeal to anyone who appreciates great food!</p>
<p>&#8220;end quote</p>
<p> </p>
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		<title>Dried Oyster Mushroom Mee Sua (rice noodles)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[My mom used to make this for me on my birthday. Rice noodles (mee sua) being very long has an auspicious meaning of long life, hence eaten on birthdays.  This is one of my favourite, taste of mom&#8217;s cooked food! 
Ingredients (serve 2)

10 dried oyster
10 mushroom
2 tablespoon of dried shrimps
2 bowls chicken stock (boil with chicken bone, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My mom used to make this for me on my birthday. Rice noodles (mee sua) being very long has an auspicious meaning of long life, hence eaten on birthdays.  This is one of my favourite, taste of mom&#8217;s cooked food! </p>
<p><strong>Ingredients (serve 2)</strong></p>
<ol type="1">
<li>10 dried oyster</li>
<li>10 mushroom</li>
<li>2 tablespoon of dried shrimps</li>
<li>2 bowls chicken stock (boil with chicken bone, chicken legs for 3 hours)</li>
<li>2 - 4 bunch of Mee sua (depends on your serving size and appetite)</li>
<li>2 eggs</li>
<li>Salt to taste</li>
</ol>
<p><strong>Method</strong></p>
<ol type="1">
<li>Prepare the stock, either using ready made (stock cubes, or stock in cartons) or make your own by boiling with chicken bone and chicken legs for 3 hours.</li>
<li>Rinse the mushroom, dried oyster, and dried shrimp. Soak for 2-3 hours with water in separate bowls (just enough water to cover them, except mushroom that will float)</li>
<li>Cut and discard away the stem of the mushroom. Cut into halves if they are big.</li>
<li>Fry &#8220;pocket eggs&#8221;, which is frying the egg like sunny side up, but before it is fully cooked, fold into half like a semi circle, hence pocketing the egg yoke inside, and continue frying until cook.</li>
<li>Bring the stock to boil, add in the dried oyster, dried shrimp, mushroom, with the water that was used to soak them into the stock and boil.  (You pour the water in slowly, as there may be some sand at the bottom after soaking and you can discard them).  Simmer for 30 mins.</li>
<li>Add in the fry eggs and boil for another 5 mins. Add salt to taste.</li>
<li>In a separate pot, boil a pot of water.  When boiled, throw in the noodles (mee sua) and move it around to loosen.  Let it boil for about 2 mins, and remove the noodles and strain dry. </li>
<li>Put noodles in a bowl and pour in the soup with the ingredients (oyster, mushroom, shrimps, egg).</li>
<li>Serve hot.</li>
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		<title>Dried Apricots and Snow Fungus Dessert</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 05:38:30 +0000</pubDate>
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This is quite like the usual snow fungus dessert, but adding dried apricot gives it a fruity sour taste from the usual red date taste.  Kids will like it chilled.
Ingredients

10 dried appricots
10 red dates
20 grams dried snow fungus or roughly the size of a clenched fist
1 tablespoon north almonds (北杏)
1 tablespoon south almonds (南杏)
10-15 tablespoon [...]]]></description>
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<p>This is quite like the usual snow fungus dessert, but adding dried apricot gives it a fruity sour taste from the usual red date taste.  Kids will like it chilled.</p>
<p><strong>Ingredients</strong></p>
<ol type="1">
<li>10 dried appricots</li>
<li>10 red dates</li>
<li>20 grams dried snow fungus or roughly the size of a clenched fist</li>
<li>1 tablespoon north almonds (北杏)</li>
<li>1 tablespoon south almonds (南杏)</li>
<li>10-15 tablespoon sugar (depending on your taste)</li>
<li>2 litres water</li>
</ol>
<p><strong>Method</strong></p>
<ol type="1">
<li>Soak the snow fungus in water for 3 hours or until fully expanded.</li>
<li>Rinse the snow fungus and cut into small pieces and put into a pot with 2l water.</li>
<li>Wash red dates and the almonds and put into the pot.</li>
<li>Bring to boil and lower flame to simmer for 1 hour. </li>
<li>Add in the dry apricots and simmer for another 1-2 hours.  Adding the apricots earlier together, from the start of cooking in step 3 is ok, except it will be much softer.   (if total cooking time is 2 hours, the snow fungus should be slightly crunchy, 3 hours will be softer).</li>
<li>Add sugar to taste.</li>
<li>Cool it and chill in fridge for a refreshing desserts.</li>
<li>Can be served warm too.</li>
</ol>

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		<title>Raisin Wine (葡萄酒)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The wine is very fragrant for cooking like steam chicken or fry vegetables or fish soup.  It has also a very nice color like brandy. This is so much easier to make compare to the rice wine. This recipe is also given to me by a confinement lady (maid that help in the family to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The wine is very fragrant for cooking like steam chicken or fry vegetables or fish soup.  It has also a very nice color like brandy. This is so much easier to make compare to the rice wine. This recipe is also given to me by a confinement lady (maid that help in the family to cook, look after mommy and baby after arrival of baby for month).  Made this once myself. </p>
<p><strong>Ingredients</strong></p>
<ol type="1">
<li>1 kg Black raisin</li>
<li>800 grams crystal rock sugar (水晶糖)</li>
<li>2 sweet yeast cakes  (甜酒饼)</li>
<li>2 strong yeast cakes (烈酒饼)</li>
<li>4 litres water</li>
</ol>
<p><strong>Method</strong></p>
<ol type="1">
<li>For the yeast cakes, in Singapore, some provision shops sell them.  Ask around the shops above Waterloo Street market, you will find them.</li>
<li>Boil a kettle of boiling water.  Put the black raisin in a pot and pour the newly boiled water over it.  Stir and let it sit for 1 min, strained away the water.  This step basically removed the oils on the raisin.</li>
<li>Add in the 4 litres of water, and the crystal sugar.</li>
<li>Bring it to boil and continue to boil for 30 minutes in low flame.</li>
<li>Allow it to cool down completely, very important.</li>
<li>Put the content into a big air tight container, and throw in the 4 yeast cakes, and cover.</li>
<li>2 months later, strain out the wine and keep in air tight bottles for cooking. The wine when strained out is very cloudy with suspension of the yeast and remnants of raisin.   Keep them in tall bottles for a week or more until the suspension settled at the bottom leaving very clear wine on top, Slowly transfer to another bottle without shaking.  May need to repeat this process 2 or more times to get very clear wine.</li>
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Ingredients

1 Kg glutinous rice
2 sweet yeast cakes  (甜酒饼)
2 strong yeast cakes (烈酒饼)
3 tablespoon of red yeast rice (红曲)
1 small bottle [...]]]></description>
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<p><strong>Ingredients</strong></p>
<ol type="1">
<li>1 Kg glutinous rice</li>
<li>2 sweet yeast cakes  (甜酒饼)</li>
<li>2 strong yeast cakes (烈酒饼)</li>
<li>3 tablespoon of red yeast rice (红曲)</li>
<li>1 small bottle good quality rice wine.</li>
<li>water</li>
</ol>
<p><strong>Method</strong></p>
<ol type="1">
<li>For the red yeast rice, you can get it from Chinese Medicine shops.</li>
<li>For the yeast cakes, in Singapore, some provision shops sell them.  Ask around the shops above Waterloo Street market, you will find them.</li>
<li>Wash the glutinous rice and lay them on a big flat baking tray. Fill with water until the water just over the rice.</li>
<li>Steam with high heat, and every 15 mins, open up and stir and loosen it, and sprinkle water on it.  Repeat this 4 times (almost 1.5 hour).  Apparently this step will cook the rice evenly and very loose instead of caking together.</li>
<li>Allow it to cool down completely, very important.</li>
<li>Using the side of a glass bottle, or anything that can grind the yeast into powder form.</li>
<li>Lay the cooked rice flat on a clean and dry big tray.  Spread it out and flatten into something like a big pancake.  Sprinkle the powdered yeast evenly on the surface, flip around and do the same on the other side.</li>
<li>Sprinkle the red yeast rice the same way.</li>
<li>Sprinkle 1 bowl of room temperature boiled water on the rice</li>
<li>Put all the content (you can tear it up into chucks or fold it up) into a big clean and dry air tight glass container and tighten the lid.  Make sure the content is not up to rim, as it will expand during fermentation and spill out.</li>
<li>3 days later, open and add 1 small bottle of good quality rice wine (this will induce more wine to be produce).  Do not stir! Very important.  Cover the lid and let it continue the fermentation for 2 months.</li>
<li>2 months later, strain out the wine and keep in air tight bottles for cooking, and the vinasse (the remains of the fermented glutinous rice and red yeast rice) can be kept in fridge for other cooking such as <a href="http://www.werynice.com/home/?p=245">Hong Zao Chicken (红糟鸡)</a>.  The wine when strained out is very cloudy with suspension of the rice.   Keep them in tall bottles for a week or more until the suspension settled at the bottom leaving very clear wine on top, Slowly transfer to another bottle without shaking.  May need to repeat this process 2 or more times to get very clear wine.</li>
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		<title>What to cook for Chinese New Year Dinner?</title>
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汤Soup

Shark Fin and Fish Maw Soup (with or without shark fin) (鱼翅/鱼瓢羹)     

金玉满堂 Meats       

Steam Chinese Winter Meats(臘味)        

年年有余 Fish

Basic Steam fish     
Steam fish with Shitake Mushroom (花菇), Daylily (金针) and Red Dates (红枣)
Sweet and Sour Grouper Fish     

黄金滚滚 Dumpling

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<p><strong>汤</strong><strong>Soup</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.werynice.com/home/?p=185">Shark Fin and Fish Maw Soup (with or without shark fin) (鱼翅/鱼瓢羹)</a>     </li>
</ul>
<p><strong>金玉满堂</strong><strong> Meats</strong><strong>       </strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.werynice.com/home/?p=101">Steam Chinese Winter Meats(臘味)</a>        </li>
</ul>
<p><strong>年年有余 Fish</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.werynice.com/home/?p=60">Basic Steam fish</a>     </li>
<li><a href="http://www.werynice.com/home/?p=133">Steam fish with Shitake Mushroom (花菇), Daylily (金针) and Red Dates (红枣)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.werynice.com/home/?p=139">Sweet and Sour Grouper Fish</a>     </li>
</ul>
<p><strong>黄金滚滚</strong><strong> </strong><strong>Dumpling</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.werynice.com/home/?p=188">Gold Nuggets (Fried Wonton 金元宝)</a>     </li>
</ul>
<p><strong>嘻哈大笑</strong><strong> </strong><strong>Prawns</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.werynice.com/home/?p=95">Pan Fry Salted Prawn</a>        </li>
</ul>
<p><strong>大红大吉</strong><strong>Chicken</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.werynice.com/home/?p=245">Hong Zao Chicken (红糟鸡)</a></li>
</ul>
<p><strong></strong></p>
<p><strong>天长地久</strong><strong> Noodles</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.werynice.com/home/?p=191">Longevity Mee Sua (长寿面) with Stock and Ingredients from Steamboat</a>  </li>
</ul>
<p><strong>甜甜蜜蜜</strong><strong> Desserts</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.werynice.com/home/?p=123">Glutinous Rice Balls in Ginger Soup (汤圆糖水)</a>          </li>
<li><a href="http://www.werynice.com/home/?p=126">Bean curd skin, barley and ginkgo dessert (腐竹薏米白果糖水)</a>        </li>
<li><a href="http://www.werynice.com/home/?p=126">Lotus seed, lily bulb, ginkgo dessert (莲子百合白果糖水)</a>        </li>
<li><a href="http://www.werynice.com/home/?p=177">Lime Lychee</a></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>New Year Goodies</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.werynice.com/home/?p=181">Pork Floss Mini Spring Roll</a>          </li>
<li><a href="http://www.werynice.com/home/?p=184">Love Letters (Egg Roll, 鸡蛋卷)</a>    </li>
<li><a href="http://www.werynice.com/home/?p=233">Kok Zai (角仔)</a>          </li>
<li><a href="http://www.werynice.com/home/?p=187">Honey Caramel Corn Flakes and Sliced Almonds</a></li>
</ul>
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This recipe taste better with pork, but you can also do it with chicken.  Chicken turns up dryer and harder as it does not have fats in between the meat, while pork (if you get the shoulder cut, 五花肉) has streaky fats in between the lean meat.  However, you can still do it with chicken [...]]]></description>
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<p>This recipe taste better with pork, but you can also do it with chicken.  Chicken turns up dryer and harder as it does not have fats in between the meat, while pork (if you get the shoulder cut, 五花肉) has streaky fats in between the lean meat.  However, you can still do it with chicken if you dislike pork.<br />
The picture shows the version with chicken.</p>
<p><strong>Ingredients</strong></p>
<ol type="1">
<li>6 Chicken drum stick or chicken thigh, or 500gms of shoulder cut pork (五花肉)</li>
<li>5 garlic</li>
<li>3 tablespoon oyster sauce</li>
<li>3 tablespoon sugar</li>
<li>1 tablespoon chinese rice wine (花雕)</li>
<li>1 tablespoon sesame oil</li>
<li>dash of ground pepper</li>
</ol>
<p><strong>Method</strong></p>
<ol type="1">
<li>Do not peel the garlic, just wash the whole garlic.</li>
<li>Season the meat with all the ingredients for 30 mins, including the garlic. </li>
<li>Heat up a thick based steel cooking pot (not too hot, just when water droplets start to evaporate and dry up will be just nice).  Thick based pots do not burn the food that easily as it distribute the heat evenly.</li>
<li>Put in the garlic and the meat in the pot, lay them out nicely.  Do not pour in the seasoning left in the bowl yet.  You should hear slight sizzling sound as the pot is slightly hot.</li>
<li>Cover and cook for 15 mins with very small flame.</li>
<li>Open the cover, and pour in the remaining seasoning gravy, and turn up the flame slightly (but still small), flip the meat over, cover and cook for another 20-30 mins (flipping the meat every 5 mins).  Cook till the gravy is almost totally dried up into a sticky gravy.</li>
<li>Slice the pork.  Serve. </li>
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