pasar malam food made at home

When one craving for pasar malam food, what else you can do but to prepare it yourself, especially if the craving came from the cook herself...hahahahha.... Mano ado pasar malam kek sini yang serupo macam kek mesia tu... however, I am lucky, because the ingredients are easy to find here. Yup, so far I have no problem finding ingredients to cook our malaysian food, except for one thing, turmeric leaf. Dah la daun kunyit nie bahan penting dalam masakan nogori. Apo nak buekkan. I was told by a friend, the reason we couldn't find turmeric leaf is because Thai's and Vietnamese do not use it in their cooking. I don't know how true this is, but I took it as one logical reason.

OK...enough of that not-making-sense introduction (yup, still fail in this area). Been searching for Yong Tau Foo sauce recipe for ages, until I found this recipe Sos Yong Tau Foo from my resepi site. I tried preparing the sauce yesterday and ok laaa... not fully satisfied, but I guess because I used different type of sauce than the one used by the cook who posted the recipe. The taste almost similar to the pasar malam, but can be improved. Jom try....



Sos Yong Tau Foo (copy directly from the site)


Bahan-bahan ( 1 family )


SOS HITAM:
560ml air 1 kiub stok bilis
1 camb kicap pekat/hitam
2 camb sos kacang hitam ( OR taucu )
1 camb sos hoisin
2 camb gula pasir
1/8 camt serbuk rempah lima
garam secukupnya
3 camb air dicampur 1½ camb tepung jagung (atau ikut kepekatan tersendiri)


SOS CILI:
8 biji cili merah dibuang biji
2 camt bijan goreng/bakar
100ml cuka
2 camb sos plam
3 camb gula garam secukupnya




Cara-cara

SOS HITAM YONG TAU FOO:

Jerang air, stok bilis, kicap pekat, sos kacang hitam, sos hoisin, gula pasir dan serbuk rempah lima di atas api perlahan. Kacau hingga mendidih, masukkan campuran tepung masak. Kacau tanpa henti selama 2-3 minit lagi atau hingga pekat.


SOS CILI YONG TAU FU:

Kisar cili dan bijan hingga halus. Jerang cuka di atas api perlahan. Masukkan bahan kisar dan semua bahan lain, ketepikan dari api, biar sejuk


note : garam & gula - ikut selera
note: kalau nak buat 1 sos saja, Sos Hitam Pedas, tambahkan cili boh ke dalam (step 2) mengikut kepedasan masing2 dan sedikit cuka.



I just prepared the black sauce because I never like pedas in my Yong Tau Foo. For lunch today, I made a little adjustment for the sauce, so I added more Hoisin Sauce (about 2 tablespoons) and more sugar....haaaa.... ada improvement sikit. Can experiment again until I get the consistency/taste that I want.





(this one for our good neighbour :D)


And I also fried Char Kuay Teow, for I was the only one yang suke Yong Tau Foo,

OK laaa kan...ahahahahhaha....sodap ke tidak, pejam mato yo laaa....janji kenyang (yaya said my Yong Tau Foo sauce is OK but "...tak sama macam pasar malam la mak"...) the word OK pun dah cukup...hehehheheh..first attempt maaaaa

Still adjusting with the routine, but everything is OK. Yaya can look after herself well, while adik, can keep to herself very well too. Soon yaya will be in school. Adik will stay with me at home, alternating with atang when he is off duty.

Nie muke budak baru bangun tido terus capai spek kakaknye, "Mama...mama...spek kakaknye...." ahahhaahha... sebijik macam den maso kocik dulu, pakai spek my sistah or abah when nobody is around :D

yours truly,

sweet chilli Flower Crab

It has been 7 months since we last went to Inala to buy seafood. Inala is the one place that you can buy cheaper seafood, with a variety of selection. But the price is not all about it, the type of seafood is another pull factor (tu dia, pakai supply and demand la pulak). You know these mat salih, they don't eat the type of fish like we eat. Grocery store in the city only sell fillet or steak cut fish, and for that, they only sell big fish like salmon, tuna, snapper, or mackerel (tenggiri). So if you want to find fish like small mackerel (kembung), yellow tail (selar), even small size prawn, crab and squid, Inala is the best place to go.

We went to Inala last Saturday, and I bought some fish, prawn, squid and crab, a lot indeed, preparing for Ramadhan as well :D. The prices have slightly increased, but you get fresh fishes, so I felt the price are reasonable.

We had sweet chilli crab on Sunday. Mmmmm mmmmmm....ahahhahahha... goreng pun sedap actually, but I want to make something different. Recipe..... can't write a good one coz I relied on available recipes on the net, so I took a little bit from here, adjust a little bit from there, watched several vids from youtube, and into the kitchen I went, cooked the crab according to my taste laaaa....ahahahhah....

Basically, I marinated the crab with some fish curry powder, turmeric and salt, and fried them. I fry the crab because I don't have a wok to put everything together, only have my loyal flat pan. So afraid that I will undercook the crab, I fry the crab first until the shell change colour. For the sauce, I pounded together 1 brown onion and 3 garlic. I sliced about 1 cm of ginger. Then used some of the oil from the frying, saute the ginger with the pounded ingredients. Then add 1 1/2 tablespoons of dried chilli paste, drop in some belacan, add in oyster sauce, sweet chilli sauce, ketchup, about 1 tablespoon of vineger, salt and sugar to taste. Add a little bit of water, throw in 1 red onion, sliced to ring. Let the gravy slightly thickened, then add in the fried crab. Mix well.

Wallahhhhhh......






Served with steaming white rice and kangkung (water convolvulus) in tauchu sauce. And the rest, like they say, is history..... :p

yours truly,

Serawa durian..yup in Brisbane

But no.... it is not me who prepared it (rasa nak pencen dari jadi tukang masak, sape cakap tukang masak kereja nya enteng)....ahahhahahha... The serawa durian was given by our good neighbour, to be eaten with glutinous rice (jiran oghang utagha Malaysia you :D).



So in return, as usual, I baked banana cake for atang's snack, and sent a plate of banana cake to our good neighbour with some prawn sambal with petai.





yours truly,

Off to Inala to buy seafood

We bought.....

Crab as requested by Yaya aka Kak Long aka Cici

(notice the cleaver and the chopping board...to clean the crab laaa)

Brissie call this 'sand crab'. You know before I came to Brisbane, I never buy, clean and cook crab (mom always does that... I only know how to eat it...hahahha)...But when I was expecting Thirah, I craved for crab. So where else can I found cooked crab, except I have to do it myself right. So that was the story laa...how I started to buy, clean and cook the sand crab.

Clean and cut oledi...

Tomorrow I will cook curry crab with eggplant...

Babah requested this...

banana prawn....hmmmm...maybe I will cooked sambal udang...I also bought petai in the can laaa....

For me.... fish....huhu....

Yellow tail (kembung) and mullet. Mullet taste like ikan terubuk... have not decide to cook what yet... maybe masak kunin mullet and kembung tauchu...ok kaaa...hahahahha

Mama...what about me....

Alamak bubba.... tunggu besar skit aaaa...nanti bleh request nak makan ape...

Then...off we went to Ispa Kebab...for 'tapau'ing two pizza (for lunch and dinner maaa... I have something big to do tonite).

While waiting... we had some drinks....

We waited half an hour for these.....

Chicken deluxe pizza....and

Meat lovers.... and as usual laa.... makan time....