Our OLD BONES made it!

Yesterday Mum and I started cooking for the Reunion Dinner at 10.30am. Mum was in the wet kitchen, Quay Po in the dry kitchen, till 7.30pm. There was a slight change on the Menu. Instead of Deep fried prawns with sesame honey roasted walnut, I cooked butter ginger garlic prawns instead. Before I went into the full swing of cooking, I managed to take some photos of the ingredients we used. 

We started the dinner with "Yee Sang" which my sister in law brought. "Low hay ar! Low hay ar!" (Everyone exclaimed). Non Chinese speaking people, don't be confused, "Low hay ar!", the "Low" here does not mean "not tall" but the whole phrase in Cantonese means "go higher". 

After that we sat down for the dinner proper and these are the dishes we dined on to welcome the new Year Of The Dragon.

Everyone were stuffed and almost every dish was finished till “Mei yan chew kang” (Beauty looking into the mirror). When a dish is being wiped clean, this is what we will say in Cantonese, literally means the plate is shining clean like a mirror. We were all so stuffed that we had to wait an hour before we can eat our double boiled birds nest dessert soup.

My Quay Lo'ss favorite dish is my Lemon Chicken. My favorite dish of the evening is stewed arrowroots with pork belly. I think Mum did not use pork belly yesterday, she used another cut. She did this specially for my Quay Lo because he does not like meat that is so fatty.

STEWED ARROWROOTS WITH PORK BELLY

Ingredients:

 270 gm pork

270 gm arrowroots

2 tbsp vegetable oil

1 tsp chopped garlic

1 ½ cup water

½ tsp sugar

Ingredients for Marinate:

(A)

1 cube (nam yu) fermented beancurd, meshed

1 cube bullion chicken stock

1 tsp sugar

1 tsp corn starch

Method:

 Marinate pork in (A) for 10 mins.  Heat 1 tbsp oil in wok and stir fry arrowroots till golden brown and scoop out and set aside. Add another tbsp oil in wok and sauté garlic and nam yu till fragrant. Add marinated pork and stir fry till they are whitish in color. Add arrowroots and mix well.  Add 1 cup water and bring to boil. Add ½ tsp sugar and mix well. Add balance of ½ cup water and turn heat to medium and let simmer till gravy is thicken, arrowroots are soft and pork is cooked.

It was a simple but wonderful reunion dinner at home. The family spent a great time together.  What can be happier than spending precious time with the family?

After a good night sleep, our old bones are ready to cook up another storm in the kitchen for the first day of Chinese New Year. Stay tune! 


"GONG XI FA CAI!" once again.

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