Stir-fried Chinese Cabbage with Mushroom

Curry Chicken

Sweet & Sour Fish

Steamed Fish with Salted Soy Bean (Tauceo)

Stir-fried Lady's Finger

Tom Yum Chicken

Stir-fried Clam

Sauteed Snail

Sauteed snails, to dip with home-made sauce.

Tom Yum Fish Head

With our own remixed Tom Yum ingredients.

Curry Fish (Kembong)

For this curry dish, Indian Mackerel or Kembong is used. Lots of basil leaves are added.

Roast Pork

Steamed "Tiger" Fish

This is the first time I have come across this type of fish. What's the name - Tiger Fish. The seller also told us its flesh is soft and taste very good. A check in the internet, I found many species other than this!

Out in the restaurants, the price for this size would probably cost RM60 - 70 based on the price we paid in the wet market. It has a very heavy weight for a medium size fish like that though.

Certainly to taste the freshness of the fish (flesh), the better way to cook it is steamed. We prefer it steamed with soy sauce.

Stir-Fried Chinese Broccoli (Gai Lan)

The above is stir-fried with crispy salted fish. Taste good.

Curry Prawn

Simply irresistible. I just love curry - better still with home-cooked curry.

Stir Fried "Choy Sum"

One of my favorite greens.

Squid with Black Sauce

Yummy!

Deep Fried Black Pomfret - Sweet, Sour & Spicy

I have always wonder why black pomfret is cooked deep fried and not like its cousin the white pomfret - steamed. It is no doubt that the flesh of black pomfret is harder, so it is more suitable to deep fried it.

For the dish here, we cook it sweet, sour and spicy. A little bit of each. This style is fairly popular in the local restaurants. However, the taste still depends much on the cook of the day.

Of course, if you ask me, I prefer a home-cooked Black Pomfret i.e. the above.

Chinese Porridge

The option to go without rice for the Chinese is porridge. Porridge is boiled to perfection and watery by nature. That's what set it apart from the normal rice we eat almost daily.

Stir Fried Water Convolvulus (Kangkung) with Shrimp Paste

Nothing beat the distinctive smell and taste of Chinese shrimp paste in this dish. Usually I like the kangkung to be spicy, stir fried with grind red chilly.

This vege is known as kangkung in this part of the world.

Steamed Pomfret

Yummy!

The Chinese like their fishes be be cooked in such a way - steamed. This is also one way to really taste the fish freshness. I for one am very particular about the fish freshness. No compromise.

Minced Pork Ball

We had this dish in a popular Hakka restaurant in KL recently. It is a mix of minced port and salted fish, deep fried to perfection.

So, we thought it would nice to make it a simple home cooked dish of our own.

Garlic Prawn

A simple dish, can easily be prepared at home. Oh la la, the kids are lovin' it!

Fried Black Pepper Crab

Crab is everyone favorite seafood I guess.

There are two distinctive types - meat crab and roe crab to choose from. The former is favored for its meat whereas the latter is sort after for its roe. Though not as famous as caviar, to some seafood lovers, crab roe can be as much tasty. I'm just OK with it, preferring the meat crab. There are certain ways to distinguish the two. But I'm not an expert, so I'll just leave out this part.

Again, crab can be cooked in many styles. The Chinese would like it hot and spicy as usual. This hot and spicy crab dish is very popular in any seafood restaurants in Malaysia or this part of the world.

What about the one you see above? Well, I would say it is fairly good. Not far off comparing to those you eat in restaurants!

Minced Pork with Salted Fish

These pictures are taken by camera phone.

This dish is perfect to go with Chinese porridge.

A perfect combination when eating Chinese porridge is having dishes associated with saltiness because the porridge itself is usually "tasteless". Sometimes you can find carrots and sweet potatoes being added for some flavor.

Stir-fried Spinach with Dried Shrimp

These pictures are taken by camera phone.

A simple vege dish - stir-fried spinach with dried shrimp. Taste good too!