Rasa Malaysia

Suddenly miss Malaysian food. With all the instant paste & mom home made chili paste, I fixed myself a Malaysian culinary day for the whole Saturday. Lunch was a quick & easy seafood tomyam rice vermicelli.

2 tbsp of tomyam paste, 600ml of chicken stock (I like soup), some shrimps & crab filament (I can't find squid, sob sob), 1/2 onion (I like onion) and tada...I'm not writing out the recipe & preparation method because it's too easy. If you buy the paste in a bottle, the instruction will be on the bottle itself. The only trick is to soak vermicelli in water prior to cooking & they are cooked pretty fast. Don't keep it in the soup too long else it doesn't taste so good.


As for dinner, mom's 'love' is bring to good use. She fried me a bottle of home made chili paste (which I love, yum yum) before I travel to Denmark. The paste can sustain very long in proper storage (a.k.a. fridge).

Heat a tablespoon of oil, add in a clove of finely chopped garlic & 1/4 thinly sliced onion. Slightly stir fry, add in a tablespoon full of moms chili paste and fry together till fragrant, then add in pork slices. Stir fry until pork is cooked. Nothing more is needed :)

Pic: (top) chili fried pork; (bot) lettuce with garlic oyster sauce

To balance my meal, vegetable that answer today's calling is lettuce. I simply boil a kettle of hot water, wash them over a few (well, more than a few) leaves of lettuce and it's basically cooked. Over-cooking lettuce will yield lousy taste, lost of vitamins & the vege turn brownish... :(.
Set the lettuce aside, heat up a shallow pan with a tablespoon of oil. Add in a clove of finely chopped garlic, 1/2 tablespoon oyster sauce, 1 tablespoon soy sauce, salt & sugar to taste (actually the sauce can be premixed in a small bowl but I'm too lazy to wash another bowl, so...) As soon as the sauce is well heated, remove from pan & pour on top of lettuce. I added a few drops of sesame oil to make it tasted exactly like mom's ;)

And so, that is my Malaysian culinary day :D