Recipes
Braised fish in claypot "taucheo hu"
This is my mother's recipe. Simple, quick and easy fish recipe cooked with fermented soybean to give the fish a salty, umami taste with the flavours of ginger, garlic, spring onions, coriander and chilli sauce
Preparation
5 Minutes
Cooking
8-10 Minutes
Serving
2
Char Koay Kak
A popular Penang street food with the locals, somewhat similar to Char Koay Teow, but lesser known among the tourists is a smoky, fragrantly aromatic rice cakes called "char koay kak". The rice cakes are cut into cubes and then stir-fry with garlic and chillies, and a distinctive umami flavour crunchiness of preserved turnip locally known as "chai por"
Preparation
20 Minutes
Cooking
40-50 Minutes
Serving
1-2
Bak Kut Teh
A heart-warming, healthy herbal soup brewed for a long time in a concoction of Chinese medicinal herbs, spices and pork bones with an all-rounded rich flavours and aroma that is distinctively "bak kut teh"
Preparation
20-30 Minutes
Cooking
4-6 Hours
Serving
2-4
Penang Char Koay Teow
Smoky and pungently aromatic with my own homemade chilli sauce and big juicy prawns is my home version of the most popular street food in Penang, Char Koay Teow
Preparation
10 Minutes
Cooking
5.5 Minutes
Serving
1-2
Soy Chicken
This soy chicken slowly poached in master stock is tenderly juicy and succulently moist. Eat with rice cooked with the aromatic stock and serve with a spicy garlicky sauce contrast that with a fresh gingery mild pungency of spring onions sauce
Preparation
15-20 Minutes
Cooking
60 Minutes
Serving
4
Bankuang Char
This dish is healthy and light with a subtle, delicate and natural sweet flavour from the jicama vegetable. A slight hint of garlicky aroma and the freshness of prawns gives this dish an irresistible taste that matches well with a stronger flavoured dish by its side with a bowl of steamed rice
Preparation
20 Minutes
Cooking
10 Minutes
Serving
4
Pork meatball with Chinese cabbage and vermicelli in clay pot
Deliciously tasty, soft and succulent juicy pork meatballs served in a heartwarming broth flavoured with a sweet and delicate infused-flavour of Chinese cabbage cooked in a clay pot
Preparation
20 Minutes
Cooking
20-30 Minutes
Serving
4
Clay Pot Chicken Rice
This is a popular Malaysian Chinese clay pot chicken rice with saucy and tenderly juicy chicken meat on top of steamy hot savoury salty-sweet steamed rice and a smoky crusty burnt bits at the bottom
Preparation
20 Minutes
Cooking
20 Minutes
Serving
2
Curry Kapitan
This chicken curry is uniquely Penang that is an interplay on different spices, herbs resulting in an intense, complex flavour that is slightly sour, sweet, fragrantly aromatic and tangy with a splash of fresh lime
Preparation
20 Minutes
Cooking
30 Minutes
Serving
4
Grilled Lemongrass Chicken Sandwich Bahn Mi
Inspired by a popular Vietnamese street food is my own home made Vietnamese sandwich called "bahn mi" filled with healthy pickled carrots and daikon salad and deliciously tasty grilled lemongrass chicken!
Preparation
25 Minutes
Cooking
20 Minutes
Serving
4
Szechuan Shredded Beef
How to make shredded beef Szechuan style. Fragrantly aromatic, sweet, salty and spicy with a umami flavour from the Szechuan broad bean chilli paste "doubanjiang" and Chinese sweet bean paste "tianmianjiang"
Preparation
10 Minutes
Cooking
8-10 Minutes
Serving
4
Lemongrass Beef Vermicelli Noodle Salad | Bun Bo Xao
A healthy vermicelli noodle salad with carrot, cucumber, mint leaves and stir-fried lemongrass beef with a homemade Vietnamese dressing sauce and crunchy toasted peanuts
Preparation
30 Minutes
Cooking
10 Minutes
Serving
2