Posted by Eric.N
Hey guys, party was over and it is time to get ready for accommodating the new year of 2010. Unfortunately, I had a minor problem so called “Party Aftermath” - leftover rice. How to deal with it? Porridge or fried rice? It has been a while since we made the Indonesian Fried Rice, so I decided to go for fried rice. This time I’ve prepare the Nasi Goreng Pattaya.
Nasi goreng pattaya, or simply nasi pattaya, is one of the common dishes around Malaysia which usually can be found at Malay hawker stalls. In Malay, nasi means rice and goreng means fry. So, you can name it Rice Pattaya as well. The name comes from Pattaya, Thailand. It is actually a chicken fried rice wrapped with fried egg and usually served with chili sauce and cucumber.
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Posted by Bel.C
Char Kway Teow (炒粿條, or aka Fried Flat Rice Noodle) is one of the must-order-food when you are visiting the state of Penang, Malaysia. It is sold in almost every part of the city from hotels, malls, restaurants to the hawker stalls. Ask the locals, they would definitely know where to find the best in town. You wouldn’t want to miss this delicious local favorite food.
The Char Kway Teow is stir fried with cockles, prawns, fresh bean sprouts, chives and egg. Add some red chilli paste for an extra kick to the noodle. Most importantly, the Char Kway Teow is cooked in fiery wok heat with lard (if possible), that makes it so aromatic and fragrant.
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Posted by Bel.C
Every Thanksgiving we will prepare a lot of food and it is always impossible to finish all of them. There are always leftover food for the next couple of days, we will be eating the same thing over and over again, especially the big roasted turkey. So what will you do with the leftover turkey?
Instead of eating the same roasted turkey for the next day, you can actually prepare a new dish with the turkey meat. You can make a soup with the leftover turkey, adding some preferred vegetables as well as noodles. This will make a perfect noodle soup as all the turkey essence is preserved in the soup. Another way that we usually prepare is to make the turkey porridge, or congee. Having a hot bowl of porridge in the cold weather will definitely warm you up.
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Posted by Bel.C
What’s the best thing to do if you have too much leftover rice? Fried Rice of course. In Indonesia or Malay, it is called “Nasi Goreng”. Nasi means Rice; Goreng means Fried. One main thing to remember when preparing fried rice is best to use cooked rice that has been cooled down ahead of time or refrigerated overnight, so the fried rice will not be soggy. You can combine a variety of ingredients of meat and vegetable to make the fried rice. This time I was cooking the Indonesian Fried Rice that includes chicken and shrimp with red chili that gives you the extra spicy kick on it as well as a fried egg on the side.
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Posted by Sam.H
Zha Jiang Mian (炸醬面) is a traditional dish from Northern China and it is named as the “brown meat sauce noodle” in most Chinese cuisines while Westerners called it “Chinese spaghetti”. Noodle (面) is the main diet for Northern Chinese due to the main crop at Northern China is wheat. Thus the Chinese uses it to produce the wheat noodle as known as la mian (拉麺) or it is called Ramen in Japan.
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