Vegetables
Sweet Potato Rice Porridge (Congee)
Some days, all you want for dinner is simple wholesome comfort food. Times like these I turn to the humble sweet potato. The sweet potato is also known here in Malaysia as ubi keledek (Malay), faan shi (Cantonese) or han cher (hokkien). It is also found elsewhere in the western world.
Other than having it [...]
Pasar Malam food: Fried Potato Chips on a stick
I love going to the Pasar Malam (Night Market) because there are always so many types of street food available that you don’t normally find in coffee shops or stalls. I found this one at one of the biggest night markets in Kuala Lumpur which is held at Taman Connaught, in Cheras on Wednesday evenings.
This [...]
Stirfried French Beans with Dried Shrimp
One of my favourite vegetables is French Beans (Kacang Buncis). I like them cooked quickly as a stir fry so they are still crunchy. The conventional method is to stir fry them with garlic as a typical vegetable stir fry dish but I decided to up the ante and add dried shrimp for flavour.
Slicing the [...]
Stirfried Bittergourd Omelette
A bittergourd or bitter melon is a gourd with a bitter taste. The bitter taste varies with each gourd. I am told that the gourds that look less wrinkly are less bitter while those with more wrinkles on the surface are more bitter. The smaller dark green ones are very bitter while larger gourds [...]
