Fried Roasted Pork with Leek

Ingredient : roasted pork, leek

I call this lazy man dish, because it is so easy to prepare, and you can finish it within 15 minutes.
First buy the roasted pork from local store or market and ask the seller to cut into slices. Clean the leek and ensure the inner layer are cleaned especially those open and exposed to sun. Cut the leek into slices.

Only a bit of oil is required since the roasted pork is oily enough when frying. Start with the garlic and continue to fry the roasted pork until it becomes fragrant.

Last add in leek, mix it well with the pork and add in a bit of water. Simmer for 3-5 minutes before adding salt, sugar and half table spoon of soya sauce.

The dish is delicious and very easy to cook, when you are rushing for time, this is a quick win.

Chicken in Japanese Sauce

Ingredient : Boneless chicken leg, Big onion
Marinate : 4 table spoon of soya sauce, 3 table spoon of Mirin, 2 table spoon of rice wine.

You can buy the chicken from local market or supermarket, choose the boneless one so you do not need to debone yourself. Marinate with the sauce for at least 2 hours or over-night.

Drain the sauce before frying, no oil is required; Cover while frying for 3-5 minutes until brown, depending on the size and volume of the chicken. Turn it over and continue to fry for 2-3 minutes. Take out when finish and cut into slices.

Add a table spoon of oil, fry the onion until lightly brown. Place the chicken on top of the onion, pour in the remaining marinate juice, simmer for 2-3 minutes.

Mirin is the Japanese cooking sauce, you can get from the local Japanese specialty store.

Pumpkin Stew Pork

Another easy to cook recipe which interest me when I found from one of the tv program. Basically you just need to cut up all the ingredients, cook it for about 30 minutes and that’s it.

Ingredients : Pork belly with skin, pumpkin, potato, oyster mushroom, garlic

First prepare all the vegetables and cut into small pieces, so it will take shorter time to cook. Do the same for the pork, and do tenderize a bit so it won’t be too hard. You can also marinate the pork with soya sauce and corn flour.

Heat up the wok without oil, place in pork to fry, no need to add cooking oil because the oil will come out from the meat. Fry for about 3 minutes, then add in garlic and all vegetables.

Add enough water to cover almost all ingredients, simmer for 30 minutes or longer based on your preference how tender you want the meat to be.

Finally when it is ready, add in salt, chicken stock powder and pepper. This is how it will look like, the taste is quite nice. Pumpkin is cooked until soften and melted and become thick gravy, while mushroom will give some texture to it. You can also replace the meat with beef or chicken, the only different is the cooking time. If you want to use chicken, suggest to use chicken leg so it would not be too hard.

Honey Chicken

This recipe gives the taste similar to the confinement recipe but less strong, and I find it very tasty.

Ingredient is only chicken wing 10 pieces.

Marinade: Rice Wine 2 table spoon, Soy Sauce 2 table spoon, salt 1 tea spoon, Honey 3 table spoon, ground ginger 1-2 table spoon, water 100ml
Wash the chicken wing and remove the wing tip. Separate the remaining into drummet and center wing, which is easier to cook and eat. Cut open the drummet and wing for marinade. If you want to save trouble, you can buy drummets from supermarket, price wise will be more expensive.
Marinade the chicken with the sauces mentioned above for at least 2 hours, the cut will help to ensure the marinade goes into the meat evenly.

Drain the chicken before frying because too much marinade juice will affect the frying.
Cover for about 5 minutes until light brown before turning to the other side. After about 3 minutes, then pour in the marinade juice, cook until the juice turn almost dry.

This is how the end result looks like.

Egg Pancake in Chinese Style

This is a very simple dish which got from one TV program, cooking only take about 15 minutes, but preparation takes longer time because 2 vegetables need to be shredded.

Ingredient: shredded carrot, shredded yam bean (or Sengkuang in Malaysian context), 100g of mid size prawn, 3 eggs and some ground peanut.

First remove prawn shell and cut into small pieces but not too small until you can’t taste it. You can replace carrot, yam bean with potato, white radish, pumpkin etc. Kitchen helper will be fast, convenient and gives even size compare to manual cutting. As for peanut, you can either buy the ready made one or you can buy the whole grain and grind yourself, easy method is to use a plastic bag or ziplog, hammer until the size you desire.

Next mix all vegetables and egg together, add 2 table spoon of plain flour and corn flour, salt and mix well. Adjust your flour carefully until the mixture is slightly wet but not too watery or too dry.

Now is time to fry. It is advisable to use non stick wok to fry as use less oil and more healthy. Add in a bit of oil, pour in sufficient but not too much batter when the wok is hot, fry until it is lightly brown then you can turn to the other side. Smaller size is easy to flip so manage amount of batter you put in, and the vegetable shreds will hold the cake nicely.

Finally you can take out when it is golden brown.

Fried Noodle with Sesame Sauce

I like to eat noodles especially the dried type, so I always explore different sauces to cook with. This is one type of sauce that I found when visiting the organic shop.


The ingredients :
Shredded Oyster mushroom (or dried mushroom), Black fungus, Beijing cabbage, Filament stick, pork, dried noodle.

I bought this dried noodle when I visited Bangkok, I find it quite nice and not easily soaked as compared to some of the local made noodles.

First you need cook the noodles in hot water, drain well after 80% cooked, soak it into icy cold water for 30 second to firm up the texture. Leave it a side while cooking the ingredients.

Place garlic in wok, fry for a while and add pork, add in other vegetables and half a cup of water and simmers until almost cook. Add in the sesame toon sauce and pin of salt for taste. Lastly place in the noodle, cover it and take out when it is cook.

The end result – simple and easy to prepare.