Chinese Rice Wine Chicken with Vermicelli (Ang Chiew Kuay Mee Suah)
Chinese Rice Wine is made from fermenting glutinous rice (pulut). This rice wine is then used variously for cooking and drinking. I only ever use it to cook with and a firm favourite is Ang Chiew Kuay Mee Suah or Rice Wine Chicken with Vermicelli. This is a traditional Chinese favourite and is also commonly [...]
Sweet Chinese herbal drink for a cough
My poor little sister was having a very bad cough recently and was taking medication for it. However, there was some remnants of the cough that wouldn’t go away, so I undertook to boil some herbal drink (”leung sui” Cantonese) for her.
I picked up a ready made pack of herbs at a Chinese traditional medical [...]
Touch of nostalgia: A simple homecooked meal
When I last cooked some Sweet Potato Rice Porridge (Congee) I made sure that I had the right nutrition balance for the rest of the dishes accompanying the meal, because a meal consisting of pure carbohydrates isn’t quite the healthy meal I strive for. Besides my sister was feeling under the weather and I was [...]
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 [...]
