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.