Kitchen

Today ar, Ah Bing sifu will teach you how to cook Nonya Fried Chicken. From this entry onwards, I am calling myself sifu already.. Hahahaha. Up level already mah.

This dish is very simple to make. Actually, any dish is different to make. The difficult part is collecting the ingredients. Especially for a person who do not own a car ^^;

Here are the ingredients.

• Chicken
• Oil for deep frying
• Salt
• Sugar
• Worcestershire L&P sauce
• Light Soya Sauce
• Ginger Juice
• Fermented red bean curd (南乳)
• Pepper
• Corn flour
• Plain flour
• Coconut milk

Method:

Combine all marinade ingredients together in a mixing bowl, Add in chicken and mix well. Marinate for at least 3-4 hours, preferably over night in fridge

Heat up oil in a wok, deep-fry chicken pieces until almost cooked. Dish and drain.

Reheat oil and deep-fry chicken pieces until golden brown and crispy

Remove and drain well. Serve with dipping sauce.

Personal note: The chicken smell funny when you marinate with fermented red bean curd. I doubt myself few times when I fry it.. “wahh.. this thing smell nasty man, who want to taste it after I fry it, any volunteers?”

It taste delicious after all ^^

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Today in Ahbing’s cooking lesson. I am going to teach you how to cut a chicken. Hah! Sounds syok right? It is! Your mum has probably done this countless times at kitchen, but do you know the correct way to cut a chicken? Do you? DO YOU? I bet the answer is NOOOOOOOOOO. Hahahah! Don’t worry. I will show teach you how! Offer yourself to help out in kitchen tonight, your mum will be delighted. Tell her “ahbing sifu taught me one”

First things first, clean the chicken in running cold water. Then, OPEN THE LEGS. Hehe.

Look for thigh joint – the red circle. Use your thumb to squeeze and press it down. The joint is opposite the chicken breast side in case you don’t know -_- The bone is “snapped” out from joint. I love to do that I don’t know why haha. Probably it felt like bending your knuckles until you hear “krak krak” sound. I love to do that when I was young, it’s a bad habit so I stopped doing it.

Flip to the chicken breast side. Pull out the chicken leg until you see the thin skin stretch between leg and body. Cut it.

You will see the bone that we “snapped” earlier… the “krak krak” sound, remember? Good. Cut it through..

And you will have a perfect piece of Maryland chicken! (Chicken thigh + drumstick = Maryland). That’s how Australian call it, not sure about Malaysia. Is it a common name? I don’t know hahahahha. Maryland is probably the biggest reason why chicken are facing extinctions… cause it is so fucking delicious.

Now you have a chicken without lower parts! Now we conquer upper parts! The nen gu bao of the chicken!

Slip your knife along the softbone between chicken breast, and cut it along the rib-cage. Easy peasy. One tips to make it easier… put your thumb on the middle of the breast, push it apart from the softbone. The breast meat will seperate easily from rib cage when you cut it.

Tada! Now you have a perfect piece of chicken breast! Nen gu bao! What else is left? The chicken wings!

Just cut it off along the joints, this don’t no need teach one. Too easy. Lastly, you only left some uncut chicken bones. Don’t throw the bone away! Use the bone to cook chicken soup. Throw in a few celery sticks, carrots and onions – and you have a perfect chicken broth.

One last tip – Cut the chicken joint, not cut through the bones! Hope you enjoy this lesson.

One chicken sacrifice for this post.. so please share this post with friends and family! Facebook Twitter whatever…

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Today I will teach you how to make Steamed Spare Ribs with Salted Fish (咸鱼蒸排骨). This is Nonya style cooking, originated from Penang if I am not mistaken. I learn this dish from a recipe book. Borrowed from a friend of mine, Mr.Tsen.

I wanted to try some dishes from that cook book, but I always do not bother to borrow him. Last week, he finally handed over the cookbook to me, “go back and cook for me” he said. I accepted his request immediately. He is my dai kor, I cannot say NO because he drives Mazda 6 series.

Okay let’s start.

Ingredients:

• 500g spare ribs, cut into serving pieces
• 50g salted fish
• 5 shallots
• 1 tablespoon shredded ginger
• 3 chili padi
• 1 red chili

Seasoning:

• 1½ tablespoon sugar
• ½ tablespoon pepper
• ½ tablespoon light soya sauce
• ½ tablespoon sesame oil
• ¼ tablespoon salt

Method:

Cut chili, red onions and ginger into small pieces. Chop spare ribs too. Very easy.

Heat up oil, pan-fry salted fish until fragrant and crispy. Remove. My whole kitchen smell so nice. This is Danau salted fish, personal favourite! I am lucky to find it in the chinese convenient store. My friend drop by and asked “wahh, what’s that smell? so goood”

Combine all ingredients, seasoning and marinate for 2-3 hours, including the salted fish. To speed up the marinate process, I stomped the ingredients together with a wooden spoon. The ginger and red onion mix so well together. I feel like I can eat it straight.

Steam at high heat for 25-30 minutes or until spare ribs are tender.

Serve hot with rice.

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Ahbing’s kitchen lesson is back! This week I will bring you a lovely and well-known Italian cuisine. PIZZZZZZZA.

I have the opportunity to taste this pizza at one of my friend’s house party, Joyce. Her sister, Grace, made these awesome pizza and it was delicious! What makes this pizza stands out from the rest of the pizza? The pizza base. We use Tortilla instead of typical Italian pizza base.

Here are some basic ingredients to prepare, no brainers!

• Burrito Tortilla Wrap
• Mozarella cheese
• Pizza sauce (I used tomato and BBQ flavour. You can use pasta sauce but it’ll be a bit sour)
• Raw skinned prawns, marinated with mince garlic, olive oil, salt and pepper.
• Mushroom
• Ham pieces
• Pineapple cubes
• Basically anything you want to put on pizza, even jelly-beans.

Lay the tortilla on a plate, and spread the sauce. Tips: usually you put meat first, then proceed to other toppings such as spinach, pineapple or garden salad. Unless you’re trying to build a tower on the pizza. usually one level of toppings is enough.

The second level is mozzarella cheese. Cover up all the shit underneath! This is the real deal when it comes to good pizza, isn’t it? FREAKING LOTS OF MOZZARELLA CHEESE!!

Put the pizza into a pre-heated oven 200° Celsius degree (approx. 400 Fahrenheit) for 10 minutes. Don’t forget to put a piece of baking paper too. Aluminum foil is not be suitable here because tortilla will stick on it. Anything that has wet ingredient doesn’t goes well with aluminum.

Behold. The ultimate pizza you’ll ever taste! This has to be in your “100 foods to eat before I die” list.

Eh, please wipe off your saliva from your keyboard. It’s dripping la.. Hehehehe.

We made eight pizzas tonight. All different toppings! Share among 5 friends and we were happy as hell. I purposely publish this post at midnight… just so you know…

Now, go to kitchen and find some food! I know you’re hungry! nom nom nom nom nom.

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