smoked chicken

Ingredients
> 1 chicken
> 1 tsp salt
> 1 tsp cooking wine
> 1 tsp five spice powder

Ingredients for smoking
> ½ cup Jasmine tea leaf
> ½ cup brown sugar
> ½ cup cooked rice



Method
[1]  Clean chicken and pat dry.
[2]  Steam chicken in a wok with high heat for 30 minutes.
[3]  Rub chicken with salt, cooking wine and five spice powder.
[4]  Cover wok with aluminium foil.  Put in tea leaf, brown sugar and rice.  Heat wok.
[5]  Place an iron rack inside the wok; put steamed chicken on the rack.  Cover with lid.
[6]  Smoke for 8-10 minutes.  Remove chicken from wok.  Leave it to cool.
[7]  Cut into bite size pieces and serve. 

(Recipe courtesy of Margarita Lee, Ipoh Echo Recipes)

pumpkin fries with salted egg

Ingredients
> 1 small pumpkin (about 400-500g)
> 3 salted egg yolks
> 1 small fresh egg
> ¼ tsp of salt and pepper
> 1 cup of all-purpose flour for coating
> vegetable oil for deep frying

Method
[1]  Steam salted egg yolks for 8-10 minutes.
[2]  Crush egg yolks with a fork.  Put aside for later use. 
[3]  Cut pumpkin thinly into the size of fries.
[4]  Mix pumpkin with the small fresh egg, salt and pepper.  Leave it for 10-20 minutes.
[5]  Coat pumpkin fries evenly with flour.
[6]  Heat oil in pan until hot.  Fry pumpkin pieces until golden colour.
[7]  Remove pumpkin fries and drain excess oil with paper towels.
[8]  Heat ½ tbsp oil in pan; add in the crushed salted egg yolks.
[9]  Stir fry the salted egg yolks until light and fluffy. (They should start foaming).
[10]  Add in the pumpkin fries and stir well with the egg yolk.
[11]  Serve immediately.

(Recipe courtesy of Margarita Lee, Ipoh Echo Recipes)

"thang chai" (small green mangoes)

The fruit ~ small green mangoes, "thang chai" in Cantonese.

Mix some sugar with soya sauce, and then put the mixture into the middle of the fruit & eat.  My childhood food!

糖水 dessert - papaya, "lor hon guo", candied winter melon, white fungus & egg

"kiam moey"

I missed this 'kiam moey' a lot.  I used to have this 'kiam moey' everytime, without fail, with my cousins and aunts, when there's this Cantonese/Hokkien Opera Shows in Seck Chuan Lane, during 'Phor Thor' (Hungry Ghost Festival).

This time, I had this at a coffee shop, "Joo Huat" at Perak Road, Penang.  It opens around 6am until 2pm.