Found this little hidden Japanese restaurant in Choa Chu Kang, Keat Hong to be exact.
We ordered the chirashi and pork ramen. The dishes look good, shall have to dig in to see if they are as good as they look.
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Radish cake recipe
I got this radish recipe from the local newspapers. I want to try it so I thought I’ll park the recipe here first.
Ingredients
1 kg radish
250g pork belly
75g dried shrimps
400g rice flour
200g tapioca starch flour
50g shallots
5 dried chinese mushrooms
50g garlic
20g ground pepper
20g salt
100cc cooking oil
1400cc water
Directions
- Wash and peel the radish, shred thinly
- Wash the pork belly, parboil for about 10 minutes
- Cut the parboiled pork belly into thin strips
- Soak the dried shrimps in warm water until soft
- Drain and ground it in a food processor
- Soak the dried chinese mushrooms until re-hydrated
- Remove the mushroom stems and slice thinly
- Peel the shallots and slice thinly
- Peel the garlic and chop finely
- Sieve the tapioca starch flour and rice flour together
- Add the radish shreds, water and salt, mixed to form a batter
- Bring some oil in a wok and fry the shallots until golden brown
- Remove and put aside
- Lower the heat and fry the shrimps, mushrooms and garlic
- Add the fried mixture to the batter
- Mixed well
- Oil a large cake pan and pour in the mixture
- Steam the mixture for 45 minutes
- Remove from steamer
- Slice into serving sizes and garnish with shallots before serving
- Or slice thinly and fry with egg
Century Egg
Grandma bought a box of century eggs last week. Apparently she overheard my conversation with my sister that I wanted to make some congee and thought that century eggs would make a nice side dish. How nice of her. 
I took the opportunity to take a picture of the egg and the snowflake-like patterns that sometimes appear on the “egg white”.
snowflake on century egg
Can you make out the pattern?
As a child, I was always fascinated by these patterns on the century egg. Why does these patterns appear on century eggs? It is a mysterious and beautiful question.
Planning to cook with century egg? Try these 2 century egg recipes.
Cranberry Cookie Recipe
Christmas is coming and I thought of baking some homemade cookies to give away as Christmas presents. It should be better than buying presents (unwanted most of the time).
I was thinking of chocolate chip cookies but I changed my mind when I saw organic dried cranberries at the supermarket. I saw myself eating crunchy cranberry cookies with bits of chewy sweet cranberries.
Okay, time for a test bake. I have not baked for a long time and I should definitely test out the recipe and refresh my baking skills.
Ingredients
2 cups (260 grams) organic unbleached flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup (150 grams) white sugar
12 tablespoons (175 grams) unsalted butter, softened
1 large egg
1/4 cup (60 ml) orange juice
125 grams dried cranberries
Directions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C)
- Let the butter stand at room temperature to soften
- Line your baking sheets with parchment paper
- Sift the flour and add the salt and sugar
- Mix well
- Cut the softened butter into small pieces and add to the flour mixture
- Use your hand to mix the butter and flour into a dry batter
- Add the egg and mix well into the batter
- Add the orange juice and mix well with a wooden spoon
- The batter should be of drop consistency by now
- Fold in the dried cranberries
- Place spoonfuls of batter onto the parchment paper
- Bake them for about 10 minutes or until golden brown
- Remove from oven to cool
Cranberry Cookies Batter
All lined up
Cranberries cookies in the oven
Final Product
These cranberry cookies are crunchy on the outside and soft on the inside. Just the way I like it.
Wontons and Pork Dumplings
Elsie and I cooked up a small storm of wontons and pork dumplings over the weekend.
As usual, I met her at Square 2 after work on Friday for dinner and some shopping. We went up to the MMMM store on the 4th floor. This place sells different types of meat and fish. The other time we bought some brazilian beef cut bulgogi-style and had some wonderful meals with them.
This time, I caught sight of the frozen minced pork…on offer. Time for some wontons and pork dumplings (aka siew mai)!
Homemade wontons
Ideal for the basic pork wonton recipe on my website.
A trip to the supermarket yielded the ginger and the wonton wrappers. The packaging of the wonton wrappers claimed that they are non-alkaline and are shanghainese. (^-_^).
I couldn’t find the spring onion and buy some fresh shrimps instead.
After defrosting the minced pork, I processed the ginger and 3/4 cup water in a food processor, add to the pork and mix like crazy. Salt, pepper and a little stock powder to taste and I’m ready to make the wontons.
Shell the shrimps and cut into small pieces.
I decided to go minimalist with the wonton folding style and went with just the samosa style. Quick and easy.
With water and a little oil boiling in a pot, I wrapped the wontons and placed them in the hot boiling water directly. Elsie, spoon in hand, made sure they do not stick together and scooped them up when they are done.
Pork dumplings
The filing is basically the same as the wontons. We just wrapped them differently and steamed them. Like I said in my website, I am a minimalist cook.
steamed pork dumplings
