Braised Fish With Hairy Cucumber/ Fuzzy Gourd

Ingredients:
1 Tilapia fish (cut into pieces)
½ hairy cucumber/ fuzzy gourd (sliced)
2 spring onions (cut diagonally into 3 inches)
5 slices of ginger
½ teaspoon of oyster sauce
1 tablespoon soy sauce
1 clove garlic, remove skin, minced
1 tablespoon of vegetable/ olive oil
½ cup of water
½ tablespoon of salt

Marinate the fish with salt for at least 1 hour.

Deep fry the fish:
½ cup of oil
2 tablespoon of flour

Method:
1. Add flour to the fish and stir evenly.
2. Heat half cup of oil in the wok over high heat.
3. Deep fry the fish until brownish colour. Transfer to a plate. (Pour away all the deep fried oil and wash wok)
4. Heat 1 tablespoon of oil in the wok. Add garlic and ginger, stir fry for 30 seconds or until fragrant.
5. Add harry cucumber/ fuzzy gourd, continue stir fry.
6. Add water and oyster sauce.
7. Once water begins to boil, add the deep fried fish, reduce to medium low heat, and let it simmer for 15 minutes or until the harry cucumber is soft.
8. Add spring onions
9. Season with salt and is ready to served.

You can change the quantity of the ingredients to your preferences.

Stir Fried Squid With Dry Chilies

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Ingredients:
Squid, sliced
8 dry chilies, cut into half
2 medium onions, sliced
1 garlic, minced
4 slice of ginger
½ teaspoon of salt
½ teaspoon of dark soy sauce
½ tablespoon of vegetable/ olive oil

Method:
1. Splash some hot water into the squid to get away the smell. (Or you may cook with some hot water)
2. Heat the oil. Add garlic, onion and ginger and sauté until brownish colour.
3. Add dry chilies, fry until fragrant
4. Add squid and stir fry
5. Add dark soy sauce
6. Season with salt and is ready to served

You can change the quantity of the ingredients to your preferences.

Assam Stingray

Ingredients:
1 stingray (pou yu), cut into pieces
2 tomato (cut into wedges)
1 brinjal (cut diagonally into 3 inches)
5 ladies finger (cut into half)
1 tablespoon of fish curry powder
2 tablespoons of vegetable/ olive oil
1 teaspoon of salt

Spice Paste:
1 clove garlic, chopped
1 big onion, chopped
1 stalk of lemon grass (white part only)
1 tablespoon of dried ground chili peppers (depends how spicy you like)
2 tablespoons of tamarind paste 1 cup of water

Marinate the stingray with ½ tablespoon of fish curry powder and abit of salt.

Method:
1. Grind all the spice in a food processor. Set aside.
2. Soak the tamarind paste in warm water for 15 minutes. Squeeze the tamarind paste constantly to extract the flavor into the water.
3. Drain the paste and save the tamarind juice.
4. Heat oil and fry the spice paste for 2 minutes or until fragrant.
5. Add the tamarind juice, fish curry powder.
6. Add the tomato wedges, brinjal and ladies finger.
7. Add the fish, season with salt.
8. Simmer on medium low heat until the fish is cooked. Serve hot.

You can change the quantity of the ingredients to your preferences.

Mushroom Chicken Rice

Ingredients:
1 cup of rice
1 cup of water
1 tablespoon of garlic, chopped
1 tablespoon of onion, chopped
4 slices of ginger
2 tablespoon of oyster sauce
1 tablespoon of dark soy sauce
½ tablespoon of soya sauce
2 tablespoon of hua tiao wine
3 chicken thighs (cut to bite sized pieces)
10 slices Chinese sausage
3 mushroom, sliced
3 auriculariaceae, sliced (云耳)
20 干金针
½ tablespoon of salt
1 pinch of white pepper
1 spring onion

Marinate the chicken with garlic, onion, ginger, oyster sauce, dark soy sauce, soya sauce, hua tiao wine, mushroom, auriculariaceae, 干金针，salt and pepper for at least 3 hours.

Method:
1. Wash the rice, then stir in with the rest of the ingredients.
2. Cook the mixture in a rice-cooker as you normally would for rice.

3. Steamed chinese sausage.
4. Mix sausage into cooked rice.
5. Garnish the cooked rice with spring onion

You can change the quantity of the ingredients to your preferences.

Hainan Style Braised Noodles

Ingredients:
I pack yellow noodles
1 big onion, sliced
3 eggs
1 medium cucumber, sliced
1 teaspoon of soy sauce
1 garlic, minced
6 small green lemon
6 shrimps (or option of pork sliced or chicken sliced)
3 tablespoons of vegetable/ olive oil
Half cup of water

Method:
1. Rinse noodles under hot water, drain, transfer to a large bowl, separate with fork
2. Heat the wok over medium high heat.
3. Add 1/3 of the oil to the heated pan.
4. Fried eggs, transfer to a plate.
5. Add the rest of the oil to the heated pan, stir fry garlic and onion until fragrant
6. Add cucumber and fried eggs, continue stir fry
7. Add noodles, stir fry for 2 minutes.
8. Add water to coat the noodles
9. Sprinkle salt and soy sauce.
10. Served splash with lemon sauce

You can change the quantity of the ingredients to your preferences.

Curry Pork Ribs

Ingredients:
Pork Ribs
1 red onion, peeled and chopped
2 tablespoons of curry paste
2 tablespoon of curry powder (meat curry powder, mix with water)
2 tablespoons of vegetable/ olive oil
2 tablespoon of low fat milk
1/2 teaspoon of salt, or to taste
3 stalks lemon grass
6 lady’s fingers

Method:
1. Season pork ribs with a bit of salt and curry powder.
2. Heat the wok over medium high heat. Add oil to the heated wok.
3. When the oil is hot, add onion, curry leaves and lemon grass. Stir fry until fragrant.
4. Add curry paste and curry powder. Continue stir fry until fragrant.
5. Add pork ribs and stir fry about 5 minutes so that the pork ribs is browned and coated with the curry paste.
6. Add small amount of water, let it simmer.
7. Add low fat milk, Stir evenly.
8. Add salt and lady's finger.
9. Cover and simmer until thicken and pork ribs is cooked and tender.

You can change the quantity of the ingredients to your preferences.

Steamed Prawns

Ingredients:
1 kg of fresh prawns, with shells and cleaned
2 tablespoon of hua tiao wine or rice wine
1 piece of ginger, sliced
1 egg white

Method:
1. Mix the ginger with the prawns.
2. Splash wine to the prawns.
3. Let it steamed for 5 minutes.
4. When the prawns almost cooked, put egg white on to the prawns. Served hot. The best is to dip with soy sauce.

You can change the quantity of the ingredients to your preferences.

Green Beans with Hot Chilies

Ingredients:
Green beans (cut diagonally into 2 inches)
Garlic, minced
Hot chillies
Salt
Soy sauce
Vegetable/ olive oil

Method:
1. Heat the oil in a wok. Add garlic stir fry 30 seconds until fragrant.
2. Add in chillies and let it fry for 30 seconds.
3. Add green beans and a little bit of water.
4. Splash soy sauce to coat beans. Season with salt.
5. Stir continuously and let it cook for 7-10 minutes. And is ready to served.

You can change the quantity of the ingredients to your preferences

Curry Flavored Fried Rice

Ingredients:
2 bowl of leftover steamed rice
Chopped onions
Chopped carrots
Chopped celery
Garlic, minced
2 Eggs
1/2 tablespoon of salt
1 teaspoon of curry powder
1 tablespoons of vegetable / olive oil
1 teaspoon of soy sauce

Method:
1. Heat oil. Add garlic and onion and saute until brownish coulour.
2. Add carrot and celery and saute together until soften. Take out and put in a bowl.
3. Fried eggs, add steamed rice.
4. Add all the cooked ingredient and stir fry.
5. Sprinkle salt, soy sauce and curry powder over the fried rice and stir evenly. And is ready to served.

You can change the quantity of the ingredients to your preferences

Braised Chicken

Ingredients:

Half chicken

Oyster sauce

Pepper

1 tablespoon of soy sauce

1/2 teaspoon of sugar

2 tablespoon of dark soya sauce

1/2 tablespoon of salt

1 tablespoon of hua tiao wine

1 tablespoon of vegetable/ olive oil

1 clove garlic, remove skin, minced

Water

Marinate the chicken with oyster sauce, pepper, soy sauce, dark soya sauce, salt and hua tiao wine for at least 1 hour.

Method:

1. Heat oil in a wok over high heat. Add garlic stir fry for 30 seconds until fragrant.

2. Add the marinated chicken and continue to stir fry.

3. Add some water to the chicken, once water begin to boil, reduce to medium low heat, cover lid and let it simmer for 20 minutes.

4. Stir occasionally so the chicken brown evenly on all sides. You will find the sauce will start to thicken slightly. Remove from heat and served hot.

You can change the quantity of the ingredients to your preferences.

Braised Sing Qua With Salted Mushrooms

Ingredients:
Sing Qua (cut diagonally into 2 1/2 inches)
Salted mushroom (cut into size)
Garlic, minced
1/2 teaspoon of salt
1 tablespoon of vegetable/ olive oil
1 tablespoon of chicken stock (mix with 4 tablespoons of water)
1 tablespoon of starch (mix with 4 tablespoons of water)
Water

Method:
1. saute garlic in oil. Add sing qua and stir fry.
2. Add chicken stock as well as some water. Once the stock begins to boil, reduce to medium low heat, and let it simmer until the sing qua is soft (approximately 5 minutes)
3. Add salted mushroom and salt and let it simmer.
4. Add starch to thicken the gravy. And is ready to served.

You can change the quantity of the ingredients to your preferences.