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Cooking Fried Rice (with taiwan sausages)

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Zz85-nds
on May 20, 2008
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One of my goals this holidays is actually to cook all my favorite dishes from Zi Char 煮炒 (zhu2 chao3) literally meaning ‘cook & fry’ or restaurant style.

So I started with fried rice 炒饭. How’s how I did it.

Cooking Ingredients

(left to right)Pepper, soya sauce, 2 eggs, corn cooking oil, sausages (used because I didn’t get char siew)

Standby Ingredients

Cooled cooked rice. Sliced sausages and chopped cabbages.

Crack eggs into a bowl

Stir, add soya sauce, stir, add pepper, stir.

Add oil to wok

Fry rice in the oil.

Add the eggs mixture.

Throw in sausages.

Stir-fry.

Throw in cabbages.

Done.

The mess I made of my home’s kitchen.

Time to clean up!

Completed dish, yum yum.

Other variations of fried rice can be created with different ingredients - using small onions(my dad’s method), spring onions, char siew, slice carrots, samba, peas etc etc…

Links
Yang Zhou Fried Rice on Baidu’s “Wiki” (in chinese)

Food Eaten During Week 0 and 1

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Zz85-nds
on August 18, 2007
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Mostly in NUS… See slideshow below

or

if you want to.

Grean Bean Soup

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Zz85-nds
on July 30, 2007
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绿豆汤， or green pea soup, is one my favorite traditional Chinese desserts.

Having a short break between my NS and NUS (the difference in U means university) gives me couple of time to spend in the kitchen. Having gathered advices from couple of ladies, its time to try out. Here’s a link to more or less standard recipe for cooking green beans, but mine’s going to be with a little variation.

1. Ingredients.

Here I have: green beans, rock sugar, padang leaves, barley seeds.

2. Start to Boil
Big Pot
Here I have a huge pot of water, and I added 250 grams of green bean seeds.

Brother’s/Dad’s advice: Place less water so the water can boil quickly, food can heat up faster, then add more water if needed.

Cover with a lid to keep the heat in if you want the beans to open up quickly.

Mom’s advice: Place a porcelain bowl or spoon into the soup so the green beans can open quicker.

3. Mix other ingredients in
Barley
Throw the barley seeds in.

Wash and tie the padang leaves before throwing them into the soup. If you are boiling the soup for long time, remember to remove the leaves when you find the taste from the leaves have used up.

Throw in rock sugar, to make it taste sweet. I used 6 pieces, but you can add different amount to your liking.

4. Serve
Green bean mixture

Okay done. Time to scoop some out to test. My pail of soup created more than 10 servings.

Green Bean Soup Bowl
You could eat it warm, or cold. Cool it down on the table before placing into the refrigerator for cooling or storing. Remember to heat up the soup if you want to store it the pot overnight.

5. Enjoy

Other than the reason Zz85’s a dessert guy, he loves sweet stuff, especially 凉 “cooling” stuff, therefore all the more Zz85 loves green bean soup, yum yump!

Malay Food and Skin Medication

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Zz85-nds
on July 17, 2007
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I love eating Malay food. They are cheap, spicy, and delicious.

Almost every meal during recess daily in secondary school was Nasi Brani.

Living at my old home, “Mee Goreng” and “Nasi Goreng” seemed my only vocab at the Indian store at the coffee shop below my flat.

However since I moved house till I entered NS, I seldom eat Muslim food, until

Thursday 12 July

Mee Goreng at the hawker centre next to Enos MRT Station.

Friday 13 July

$1.90 Nasi Lemak Set Meal at shophouses next to..


United Square.

Mentioning why I was at Novena, it was my last trip to National Skin Center due to my well suppressed outbreak of Eczema(, a kind of Dermatology disease, which I had likely received via my genetics and habitat).

Not very noteworthy, but for the record purpose here’s a list of different medication I have tried on my skin in the last 18 months.

  • Fobancort cream (which happens to work the best for me, is a strong steroid)
  • Dermasone 0.1%
  • Xepacycline
  • Dosanac Emulsion Gel (opps, not for my rash but for muscle relief)
  • Chlortralim (Another chlortertracycline cream, but seemed issue wrongly to me, as it usually for the eyes)
  • Aquarea (moisturising cream with urea (urine?) 10%)
  • Beprosone ointment
  • PP Wash(Potassium permanganate KMnO4 solution)
  • Mycoban

And some others I might not have recorded. Now for oral medication

  • Choloramine
  • Loratadine Tablet

These are usually flu/rash + drowsiness pills as a temp fix for itch.

As I recall, there are even more methods some I have tried, and others hearsay.

  • 青草油 Herbal Oil which was said to be good for open wounds. It was good for causing burns and pain when applying, followed by some relief (perhaps of the initial burn first). My friend suggested another strong chinese herb but I never tried that powder before.
  • Just leave it- (wasnt such a good idea).
  • Wearing bandage on affect areas- so won’t cause a wound when scratching at night in sleep
  • Wearing gloves
  • Apply salt water
  • Soak in sea water
  • Don’t apply soap
  • Let the dog lick
  • Apply Cow dang on affected areas
  • Avoid Seafood completely
  • Bath in Cold water

Anyway when my situation was quite bad everyone comes out with a version of remedy advice. Maybe some helped, and others worsen, I’m glad I wouldn’t need to think so much about it now.

Photos from Pengerang Trip

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Zz85-nds
on June 5, 2007
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Some photos about my trip.

Early in the morning, 30km, 2 and a half hours later, I reached the Chang Jetty Point.

Reached Changi Jetty

I enjoyed the tugboat ride, which lasted about 45mins to an hour.

Tugboat to Pengerang

Ashore Malaysia’s Jetty, was a 16km bicycle ride on a almost straight, easy and low traffic road along the coastal line to the Pengerang Town. The sights are almost kampong style, kids stick their heads out of the passing cars, or stand outside their huts and wave to you excitedly. I happen to see certain dead animals on the road.

Pengerang Town Street

At an easy cycling pace, you would hit the town in about an hour’s time. Here’s an impression of the town. Had some chee chiong fun waiting for the rest to gather at a coffee shop near taxi station. Money changing was done at inn nearby.

Lobster King
A huge lobster for lunch. We went to this restaurant call “Jade Garden” which Channel U visited before.

Dishes
More dishes.. with sharkfin soup and drinks, we payed only RM$50 per pax. The disappointment our group had was that the mantis prawns were not going to arrive until evening.

Baber

I went to get a nice RM$7 haircut at the barber while my friends bought Ipoh coffee, huge mangos.. 45 minutes to the Jetty, the return boat ride, and the most challenging part, cycling the long distance from changi home.

Was delayed a little by the rain, slip and fell as a road bike slip traveling across a wet drain cover, as we took a shortcut through hougang back to seletar road. I got changed in time to celebrate dinner for Mother’s day.

Spent no more than $50, tired, yet satisfied, and a comfort for not joining the City Dualthon or the Paya Laba’s 45km Runway Challenge.