Ang Chiew Mee Suah (Hong Chau Min Sin-cantonese)

This is Hock Chiew's signature Mee Sua or Min Sin.

This is Sitiawan's famous dish. It's like Kei Si Hor Fun (sliced chicken noodle) in Ipoh.

My first try on this dish was back in 1999, almost 10 years ago. I can say that I like it very much.

What so special about this dish ? The soup base is not merely braised by chicken stock nor pork stock. It entails chinese red rice wine which soaked in for 3 months before it's ready to be used.

As below pic, glutinuous rice with red rice and wine cake.
Mix them together and soak for 3 months.


It is then kept in bottle and ready to be used to cook ginger chicken soup or saute chicken with it's rice wine. MIL used to cook soup whenever it's the birthday of any of the family members.

The mee sua is first cooked with plain water. After it is cooked, drain it. Then, scoop up some oil from the red wine soup and mix to the mee sua. In this sense, the mee sua will not stick in one big lump, and it is much tastier.


*Note: There are 2 types of mee sua from Sitiawan. One is fatter and the other thinner. I like the thinner type. It goes well with this soup.

In fact, this dish is also perfect to be eaten during confinement since it is made of rice wine and also cooked with chicken and ginger. I had it almost every other day during my confinement. nmm... it's yummy !

This Signature Dish has also been blogged by Motormouth from Ipoh earlier on. You can check out from his blog on where to find this dish in Sitiawan. As for Penang (mainland), there is one coffee shop selling this at night. It is at Tmn. Mutiara night food court, BM. Main road to Jit Sin (SRJK) Secondary high school, coffee shop facing the main road. (the morning wet market is at the back).

Hoe Si Fatt Choy-Stewed Mushroom, Oyster, Moss

My version of stewed Mushroom, Oyster without Moss. :-)

When I opened my fridge, all I could see was only chinese herbs, mushrooms, some dried food, cabbage and lettuce.....

Gosh... What can I cook from these ingredients ? Really scratched my head.

All of a sudden, I reminisce my grandma's Hoe Si Fatt Choy. We used to have this dish during chinese new year. But not anymore ever since she passed away 24 years ago.

Since I have Big Mushrooms and dried oysters in my fridge, I decided to stew them even though I hadn't got any moss nor pork for the soup base.

To compensate pork or chicken meat, I thought of using anchovies, but I remembered hubby didn't like the smell of it. Being obsessed with chinese herbs, I ended up using chinese herbs as the soup base. :-)

Soup base Ingredients:

10 red dates (pitted)

4 flower seeds ? (sorry, I forgot what it calls. If anyone can pic that, pls let me know. The one in brown color in the pic)

1 dried abalone (it's not 100% original abalone. Can get it from chinese provision shop).

3 dried oysters (not those big ones during CNY. Got it from sundry shop).

2 dried longan

2 tbsp of Kei Chi

8 dried shitake mushrooms, soak in a bowl of water, retain water for cooking

1 tbsp of thick soya sauce

Marinate Mushroom -for 15 mins after mushroom is soft.

1 tbsp of corn starch

1 tbsp of oyster sauce

1 tsp sugar

Method:

1) Wash and soak mushroom for 1 hour and drain.

2) Soak for the second time and retain the water for stew.

3) Drain mushroom, add starch, oyster sauce and sugar. Leave aside.

4) Boil water with the soak mushroom water together with all the soup base ingredients for 15 mins.

5) Put the mushroom and the pot of soup into slow cooker, add thick soya sauce and leave it to stew until soft.

This was my first time preparing it and hubby said it's tasty. Before I stew them, I took out a cup of the sup base and let my kids and hubby taste. They all like it. :-) It leaves me more confident to stew them using the soup. :-)

Though, it is not the original Stew Mushroom, Oyster and Pork, but this is as good.

Javanese Jawa Mee

I was chatting with my friends yesterday about cooking Jawa Mee and they said that I never posted anything about Jawa Mee. I remembered snapping some photographs of it the 1st time I cook at my new home. I must have forgotten to post it again. Yesterday was my 4th time, if I've not mistaken..

Here is my Jawa Mee, the revised version suitable for kids - not so spicy and with healthy ingredients.

Serving: 4

Preparation + Cooking Time: 45 min

Ingredients:

Yellow noodles

Rice vermicelli/rice noodle

Soup / Gravy

3 medium sweet potato

2 medium potato

3 small tomatoes (in replacement of Asam Jawa)

100ml tomato ketchup sauce (add more or less to suit own taste)

3 tbsp chili sauce (add more if spicier taste is preferred)

4 shallots

1 tbsp light soy sauce

Salt to taste

Pepper to taste

** Optional : 40g chili paste with onion (bought from wet market or buy RM1.00. Half for the gravy and half for garnishing sauce)

Garnishing
3 medium eggs, hard boil
1 stalk chinese lettuce, shredded

2 cups bean sprouts, briefly blanched

1 tofu (soy bean cake), thinly sliced
Fried beancurd slice (in replacement of prawn cracker)

2tbsp chili paste to taste

fried shallots to taste

Garnishing: Prawn Cracker (MIL's secret recipe)

300g medium sized shrimp

300g flour

100g frying powder Hup Loong Batter Premix

salt to taste

Method

1. Bring 3 cups of water to boil.

2. Skin sweet potato and potato.

3. Cook sweet potato, potato and tomato until tender.

3. In another pot, cook hard boil egg.

4. Wash, drain lettuce, bean sprout and tofu.

5. Shred lettuce and cut tofu into cubes.

6. Marinate tofu with sugar and light soy sauce, put aside. (for better taste. You many skip this one).

7. Drain out sweet potato, potato and tomato. Blend them together until very smooth.

8. Remove from blender and pour it back to the pot that boils the potatoes. Mix it and boil with low flame.

9. Saute shallots until golden brown. Add chili paste and saute till fragrant.

10. Pour in shallots and chili paste into the potatoes pot. Mix it well.

11. Add in tomato sauce, chili sauce, little salt and light sauce.

12. Bring it to boil or until soup is thicken.

And it's done ! Ready to serve

Oops ! I forgot to put on shredded lettuce ! :-D

* In my previous cooking, I added lime for a more intense sour taste. However, I find that Ernest always have throat irritation at night each time after having the Jawa mee. He has no throat irritation after I eliminated lime into the cooking. Thus, I guess, he is allergy to lime.

Wanna give a try ?

Lunch at Victoria Station

"Victoria Station" is not a new place for any steak lovers. However, it is new for me to dine in for a lunch. A very heavy lunch, I had today with my colleagues, 25 of us in total.

While waiting to be served. I order a strawberry milk shake, which is Ernest's favorite fruit juice. It's very tasty.



We were then served a bun. Till we finished up the whole bun, our soup was still not served. We kept waiting and finally.....
Crabmeat Sharkfin soup. It would be much satisfying if the soup was 100% hot.


And.... our main course is here..... :-D
Just joking.


It's this one. I ordered Lobster + beef set. It comes with one special side dish, i.e bake pumpkin. It's 90% similar to fried wedges. We did not notice it until we tasted it. Very nice. :-) The lobster was baked with cheese. I find it a bit overcooked. The beef was just ok for this set.


This was another main course ordered by my colleague. Lobster + Salmon. This set isn't in the menu, they special ordered it. The salmon, nmm... it's not nice.


The 3rd set is Lobster + Lamb. I don't like lamb, but this lamb was good. Really good. It's very tender.

A complementary deep fry prawn from my colleague. The portion was too much. She can't finished hers, but I can 'cas I have an elastic stomach. :-D


We all were actually more than full, really full and for the girls, none of us could finished up our own portion. I meant including all the side dishes in the serving.

Yet, we still have another dessert...
Chocolate mousse cake with a scoop of ice-cream. Some were served with cheese cake or coffee cake. Cheese cake was the best among them.


At the end of the course, we were served with a tea / coffee. Me and another colleague couldn't tolerate anymore. We needed something non-sweet and thus, we put a deco lime on the fruit juice into our tea ! :-D Well, that was nice for a temporary digestion. :-D

I couldn't elaborate how full we were, but I didn't had any dinner tonight. It was just too much. I think I will not take anymore seafood or beef for at least another few months.

The sets were RM 73.00 each. (1 soup, 1 main course, 1 dessert + coffee/tea). Worth it, isn't it ? Will you try it out even if it's not a treat?