Ayam Pongteh

Ayam pongteh is nyonya braised chicken with shitake mushroom and potato. This is a popular nyonya dish eaten at most festivals or celebrations. This dish is normally not spicy (unless chilli is added) but quite rich in flavour enriched by lots of shallots, garlic and fermented yellow beans. The recipe is pretty much influenced by Chinese. To add a very Nyonya touch to this dish, sambal belacan

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Kung Po Chicken ????

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Kung po or kung pow chicken (gong bao ji ding ????) is probably the most famous Sichuan chicken dish outside China. It is listed in nearly all Chinese restaurants or takeaways menu worldwide. There are many versions or westernised kung po chicken, many include diced vegetables and most used cashew nuts. The real Sichuanese style has few

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Steamed chicken with fermented chilli and black beans ??????

I made a couple of jars of fermented chilli few months ago, there is still some in the fridge in good condition no sign of mould or smelling bad. It has lasted longer than I thought. This chilli has a great flavour and is very spicy hot due to the added Thai chillies. For next batch I will use milder chilli so I can use more of it.

Here is an easy and straight forward recipe with chicken.
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Korean spicy chicken stew

This stew is so easy to make. One of those recipes I have repeated time after time when I crave for a warm hearty stew but could not be bother or too tired to hang around long in the kitchen. All I have to do is cut the vegetables and chicken, then just add water and boil till just about tender then add spicy sauce. That is it. Couldn't be simpler, grease free cooking. It does look good with a

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Xinjiang chicken stew ?????

Xinjiang da pun ji ?????, translated as Xinjiang big plate/bowlful of chicken. Xinjiang is the North West part of China, Muslims majority. I found this chicken stew recipe a while ago, very similar to Sichuan spicy flavour which I like a lot. What special is no water is needed just plenty of beer to stew the chicken. I just got to try this recipe. Here is a big wokful of this stew, colourful and

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Fermented beancurd flavoured chicken nuggets with basil ?????

Fu Ru Yen Shu Ji ?????. This recipe is a delight from Taiwan, though not super healthy it's finger licking good. I have made this several times. Chicken has lovely flavour, the coating will stay crunchy for quite long time and the fried basil chips so crunchy they melt in the mouth. The recipe is easy as long as you have some fermented beancurd and some fresh basil.Here is the recipe if you like

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Caramelised wings

This recipe is based on Vietnamese caramel pork belly. I have been cooking this repeatedly for many years and still not tired of it. It's a rewarding recipe with only few ingredients and simple method. The wings are succulent and full of flavour, sweet and salty. Finger licking good. Whenever I cook this, all I need is just plain white rice, nothing else.If you like cola wings you will love this

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Lemon chicken ???

I love all things sweet and sour and lemon chicken ranks very high on my favourite list. It is such a simple recipe but so very tasty. Beats KFC anytime.If you don't already know a good recipe, this is how I make it. The recipe I like is chicken coated with cornflour (cornstarch) then shallow fried/deep fried. The chicken coating is very crispy and sauce is tangy and flavoursome. I prefer to use

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Moo goo gai pan ????

The first time I heard of 'moo goo gai pan' said in American/English years ago, I had no idea what it was. Then I figured it out it must be chicken with mushroom, still took me many years later to figure out what 'pan' is in Chinese till I Google and found out it is ?(slices). This dish name has appeared in many American movies or tv whenever Chinese food is mentioned, even The Simpsons also

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Opor Ayam

Opor ayam is one of the popular chicken curry in Indonesia/Malaysia/Brunei areas. Two common curry spices like chilli and turmeric are not required. This curry is fragrant with spices but not spicy hot and quite creamy with coconut milk. Quite easy to make once you have got the spice paste and whole spices ready. Very tasty with just plain rice or Malay pressed rice called lontong. I like this

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Soy Sauce Poached Chicken ??? and Master Sauce ??

I love poached chicken, the meat is so juicy and tender. That is why I love Hainanese Chicken rice. Another of my favourite is soy sauce chicken (See Yau Gai ???). This poaching liquor is a mixture of light soy, dark soy, sugar and spices normally referred to as master sauce (lu sui ??). Chicken poached with this sauce is a lot more flavourful than just poaching with water or plain stock like

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Celebrate CNY Eve with Fu gui Ji ???, aka Beggar Chicken

Our New Year's Eve dinner highlight was a Fu Gui Ji ???, commonly known as beggar chicken (??? chi gai zi) or (??? jiao hua zi). I preferred to called it Fu Gui Ji ??? for this occasion because fu gui ?? means fortune and prosperity.This beggar chicken recipe started a long time ago in Hangzhou ??, China. The story was a beggar stole a live chicken from a village. He was found out and the owner

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