Had a nice lunch with my siblings and their spouses at Paradise Teochew Restaurant at Scotts Square, while waiting for our table, we played some pokemon at the entrance of the restaurant. There's free wifi at Scotts Square. I am not crazy about the game but loved taking screen shot of the monsters haha.
We were served some nice thick tea before they served our food.
Being teochew ourselves, we of course ordered mostly teochew dishes, the first dish was chilled pork trotter jelly in teochew style.
Of course the famous chilled crab
Braised sliced duck
Salted vegetable and duck soup
Forgot the name of this dish, is some kind of stir fry mushroom, etc
Steamed minced pork with salted fish
Oyster Omelette
Steamed promfret
Sweet and sour pork
Crispy noodle
Yam Paste or orh nee
Thick tea served at end of meal
Cooking the Chicken with white fungus soup with the slow cooker is very easy.
Ingredients: 500 gm chicken (I used breast part),4 to 5 red dates (without pitts),handful of wolfberries, handful of north and south apricot slices (available from chinese medical shop, some called them almond slices),2 white fungus and salt to taste
Soak the white fungus till fully expanded and separately soak the wolfberries too.
When the white fungus expanded fully, cut the centre hard part and throw it away, cut the rest of the fungus to smaller pieces.
Blanched the chicken and throw the water away, refill with about 1.5 to 1.7 litres of fresh water.
Add in the red dates, apricot slices (good for curing cough and phelgm), white fungus, boil for a while before transferring to the slow cooker.
Cooked on high for 3 and half hours. After cooking for 2 and half hours, add the soaked wolfberries (drained the water away).
Optional: Boiled some quail eggs and add into the soup too. At this point, taste the soup, and add salt to taste.
Continued to boil for another 1 hour (total 3 and half hours)
The soup is really tasting and soothing, good for those with dry throat, cough and phelgm.
Video on step by step on how to cook the soup using the slow cooker.
Been a long time since I used a slow cooker to cook tonic soup. Bought this ready packed chicken tonic spices from supermarket. Can get any brand.
Instructions on the back of the packet.
The different herbal spices. Rinse all the herbs except the bag of spices (looked like tea bag).
I used chicken breast (500 gm), removed the skin, washed and blanced them. Throw the water away and refilled with fresh water.
Add all the herbal spices.
Boiled them for a while and transfer to the slow cooker(See video)
Cooked on high for 3 hours or slow/auto for 5 to 6 hours.
Finally after 3 horus, my soup is cooked and the whole kitchen filled with nice herbal aroma.
Video on step by step on how to cook Chicken Tonic Soup using the slow cooker.
Decided to braise pork spare ribs in the slow cooker.
Got some nice looking spare ribs from the wet market, about 500 gm of spare ribs.
Mixed with some minced onion, minced garlic and minced ginger.
Made a sauce or any BBQ sauce.
Marinated overnight.
Next morning, I just took the marinated spare ribs from the fridge and throw into the slow cooker. I placed some potatoes and carrots at the bottom of the slow cooker. Cooked on high for about 4 hours. After two hours, I opened the lid and turned the spare ribs over and continue to cook for another two hours (total 4 hours).
It was so yummy and easy to cook(the slow cooker do all the cooking), no messy kitchen.
Video on step by step on how to braised the spare ribs.
We were served some nice thick tea before they served our food.
Being teochew ourselves, we of course ordered mostly teochew dishes, the first dish was chilled pork trotter jelly in teochew style.
Of course the famous chilled crab
Braised sliced duck
Salted vegetable and duck soup
Forgot the name of this dish, is some kind of stir fry mushroom, etc
Steamed minced pork with salted fish
Oyster Omelette
Steamed promfret
Sweet and sour pork
Crispy noodle
Yam Paste or orh nee
Thick tea served at end of meal
