Mixed Vegetable (Chopsuey)

Ingredients:

• 200 g chicken thigh fillet (cut into strips)
• 3 large shitake mushrooms (sliced)
• 1 carrot (thinly sliced)
• 2 servings of lettuce (cleansed and chopped into edible size)
• 2 garlic cloves
• thickener (2 tbsp corn flour + 3 tbsp water)
• 2 tbsp cooking oil

Sauce:

• ½ cup chicken stock
• 1½ cup water
• 2 tbsp oyster sauce
• ½ tbsp light soy sauce
• ½ tbsp Thai fish sauce
• ½ tsp sugar
• a dash of white ground pepper
• a pinch of salt

How to:

• heat your oil in a frying-pan for 1 minute. Add in the chicken and stir-fry till the outer layer is not pinkish anymore
• add in the garlic and stir-fry till fragrant
• add in the sauce and bring it to boil. Add in carrot and mushrooms. Simmer for 3 minutes
• add in the lettuce and thickener. Mix well
• serve for 2

Indonesian Fried Fish Ball

Ingredients:

• 100 g Dory fish fillet
• 100 g prawn (devein and deshell)
• 3 garlic cloves
• 2 eggs
• 6-8 tbsp tapioca starch
• ½ tsp white ground pepper
• 2 tbsp Thai fish sauce
• 1 tbsp light soy sauce
• ½ tsp sugar
• oil for deep frying

How to:

• put all the ingredients except the oil into a food processor and mince well - Adjust the amount of tapioca starch as you mince at such you can scoop the paste and mold it into a ball
• heat your oil (~1 inch deep) for 1 minute
• oil your palms. Take a spoonful and mold the paste into a ball. Deep fry under small fire for ~15 minutes - under high heat the fish balls are easy to be charred and frying less than 15 minutes the fish balls are likely to get flatten after a while
• serve for 2 with your favorite sauce

Thai Style Roasted Pork

Ingredients:

• 200 g pork belly
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 tsp Chinese five spice powder
• 1 tsp basil flakes
• 6 fresh lime leaves
• 1 red chili-pepper (deseed, devein and chopped)
• 2 shallots (thinly sliced)
• 1 tbsp minced garlic

Sauce:

• 2 tbsp Thai fish sauce
• 1 tbsp Indonesian sweet soy sauce
• a dash of white ground pepper

How to:

• pierce the pork-belly skin with knife thoroughly
• rub the pork-belly with salt and five spice powder
• set your oven to 180 degree celcius and grill the pork-belly for 30 minutes
• warm your frying pan for 1 minute. Pan-fry the pork belly with skin below (without any additional oil) to make the skin crispier for about 3 minutes
• cut the pork-belly into bites. Return them to the frying pan. Add in the remaining ingredients and stir-fry till fragrant
• add in the sauce and mix well
• serve for 2