These are some of the dishes prepared by my dad. Hehe... I just want to keep the images and some information of the dishes on this blog. It's just amazing that guys like him are good at this. But sadly, I don't know much about cooking. Haha... The words inside the bracket indicate the language used to pronounce the name of the dish. And for the description of the ingredients, they're not that detailed and complete though.
Pictures that I took:
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Name: Rice
Description: Usually it's our main dish.
Complementary with other dishes
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Name: Kangkung (Malay)
Description: Water spinach (I guess lol)
with soy sauce, chicken meat, and garlics
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Name: Eok Zai Ke (Hokkien)
Description: Also known as Chinese herbal
chicken soup. Consists of chicken thigh and
breast with Chinese herbs
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Name: Choi Sum with Kai Yok (Cantonese)
Description: Chinese cabbage or flowering
white cabbage with chicken meat,
soy sauce, and ginger
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Name: Fried Eggs
Description: This one is a bit over
fried. LOL but it's still nice
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Name: Sui Kam Dao Iu (Hokkien)
Description: Lime juice with soy souce
and sugar. Complementary with some
other dishes
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Name: Chicken Stew
Description: Consists of chicken breast
and thigh, sliced (picture) or mashed
potatoes and fried onions
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Name: Omelette
Description: Beaten eggs fried with
onions and then folded
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Name: Kali Hu (Hokkien)
Description: Fish curry cooked with
long beans (homegrown, hehe), garlics,
anchovy, curry leaves, sliced tomatoes,
and spices
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Name: Hard-Boiled Eggs
Description: This one is easy to prepare.
Just boil it slowly for 10-15 mins! xD
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Name: Hein Cai (Hokkien)
Description: Spinach with garlics.
The methods for cooking this dish are a
bit similar in preparing the Kangkung dish
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Name: Chicken Soup
Description: Chicken thigh and breast
with sliced potatoes, tomatoes,
coriander and onions
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Name: Bao Choi Fa (Cantonese)
Description: Cauliflower cooked with
capsicums, snow peas, garlics, carots,
cucumbers, prawns and chicken meat
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Name: Steamed Fish
Description: Fish with shredded ginger,
capsicums, carrots, cauliflower, spring
onions, tofu, and snow peas
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Name: Kali Ke (Hokkien)
Description: Curry chicken with okras,
curry leaves, spices, sliced garlics, green
chillies, onions and hard-boiled eggs
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Name: Pickles
Description: It's not really pickle but the
cucumbers are freshly cut into thin slices
and mixed with lime juice and sugar
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Name: Kiam Cai Bak (Hokkien)
Description: Salted vegetable soup.
Consists of pork, salted vegetables,
garlics, tomatoes, tofu, and ginger
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Name: Kali Hu (Hokkien)
Description: For this dish, okras are
added and the curry is more soupy
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Name: O Bak (Hokkien)
Description: The letter 'O' is read as 'or'.
Consists of chicken cooked with sweet
soy sauce, sliced ginger and cucumber
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Name: Char Heh (Hokkien)
Description: Prawns fried with cucumbers,
eggs, vegetables (don't know what it's
called in English), and garlics
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Name: Tom Yum
Description: Consists of fish, kaffir lime
leaves, tom yum paste, lemon grass, Thai
ornamental hot peppers, lime juice,
onions and okras
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Name: Fried Chicken
Description: A funny looking deep-fried
chicken. LOL too much flour. Goes well
with chillie sauce and fried chicken soup
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Name: Fried Chicken Soup
Description: It's the soup after boiling
the chicken. A few pinch of salt is added
for flavour. It's nice to have soup.
At least the food won't taste too dry
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Name: Hou Yau Kai (Cantonese)
Description: Chicken meat cooked with
oyster sauce, with some sliced ginger
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Name: Wong Nga Pak Tong (Cantonese)
Description: Celery cabbage soup with
some spring onions. Goes well with the
Hou Yau Kai dish
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Name: Mutton Soup
Description: Mutton boiled with old ginger.
This dish is normally consumed to reduce
the 'body heat'. The Cantonese term for it is
Har For', but I'm not so sure about it.
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Name: Tim Xun Ha (Cantonese)
Description: Sweet and sour dish. Consists
of prawns, eggs, cucumbers, spring onion,
ginger, tomato and chillie sauce
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Name: Choi Sum Chow Ha (Cantonese)
Description: Chinese cabbage or flowering
white cabbage with prawns, soy sauce,
and ginger
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Name: Beefchop
Description: Consists of small pieces of
beef, tomatoes and onions. It's a bit like
porkchop
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Name: Ong Gua Char Heh (Hokkien)
Description: Sliced cucumbers cooked
with prawns and garlics
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Name: Siu Bak Choy (Cantonese)
Description: Canton Bak Choy cooked
with sliced garlics and soy sauce
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