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Few weeks ago, I was in Aberdeen.  Due to long cravings for char siu and siu yok, I rushed all the way to Chinese restaurant to order few of these Chinese dishes. A close friend of mine reminded me not to have Chinese food in Aberdeen as it is will not be as good as what we have in Malaysia…but how bad can it be..

Without hesitation, I walked in to a Chinese Restaurant in the middle of Aberdeen City Centre, acknowledging it will be pricy, I ordered few dishes, just to ease my cravings. In a way, I am like ant seeing sugar. Not much of choices there, so, please don’t ask if I can order anything fancy.

Instead of having my dinner in the restaurant, I decided to place a take away order. The first one dish that I ordered is sweet and sour prawns. A lot of prawns in one container but  the taste, I would say it is delicious. If fact, I think I can cook better.

Despite Aberdeen is just right beside seaside, the prawns are frozen type and not the fresh type. That makes the prawns taste more like tendery type of meat instead of fresh juice prawns. How disappointing considering I paid about 16 pound for few of these small little creatures.

The waitress suggests this SCALLOPS with vegetables. From the name, it paints a mental picture in me that the dishes will come with a lot a lot of scallops and few vegetables as side than main. When I opened the aluminium foil, the dish is more like VEGETABLES with scallops.

But this dish is surprisingly good, just a bit stingy on scallops. Ohh.. I can also sense that they put a lot of MSG. All because as soon as I finish eating it, I felt the thirst that lead me to drink a big glass of water.

Finally, I can’t resist my temptation and ordered this, Siu Yok, Char Siew and Roasted Duck rice. This on cost about 17 pound. The rice is just simple plain white rice and not the oily type and the meats, so so only lor. Instead of usual cucumber, they put lettuce as a replacement.

Overall, I will also not recommending anyone to try Chinese Food in Aberdeen but in the event that you need to ease your cravings, you can do so by punching big hole in your wallet for these dishes which are not as good as what we used to have in Malaysia.. now I miss Malaysia a lot..

French Beans with Tau Kua

Ingredients

1 piece Tau kua (Cut into 5 mm thick slices)

50 g French beans (Remove both edge of French beans and cut each French beans into half.

3 cloves Garlic (Finely chopped)

½ tbsp Light soy sauce

½ tbsp Oyster sauce

1 tsp TikkoSS’s Secret Ingredient

½ cup Warm water

½ tsp Corn flour (Mix with 1 tbsp water)

Method

1. Heat wok 4 tbsp oil and fry tau kua until golden brown. Remove from wok and set aside.

2. Heat wok with 2 tbsp oil. Fry garlic until fragrant and golden brown.

3. Add French beans and continue frying until soft.

4. Add light soy sauce, oyster sauce, TikkoSS’s Secret Ingredient and warm water. Simmer for 2 mins over small fire.

5. Add corn flour mixture and ready to be served.

Stir Fried French Beans with Fish Balls

Ingredients

50 g French beans

5 Fish balls (Cut into half each)

3 cloves Garlic (Finely chopped)

½ tbsp Light soy sauce

½ tbsp Oyster sauce

1 tsp TikkoSS’s Secret Ingredient

½ cup Warm water

½ tsp Corn flour (Mix with 1 tbsp water)

Method

1. Remove both edge of French beans and cut each French beans into half.

2. Heat wok with 2 tbsp of oil. Fry garlic until golden brown and fragrant.

3. Add French beans and continue frying until soft. Add fish balls.

4. Add light soy sauce, oyster sauce, TikkoSS’s Secret Ingredient and warm water. Simmer for 2 mins over small fire.

5. Add corn flour mixture and ready to be served.

Stir Fried Nai Bai Baby with Garlic

Ingredients

100 g Nai bai baby

4 cloves Garlic (Finely chopped)

1 tsp Oyster sauce

1 tsp Salt

½ tsp TikkoSS’s Secret Ingredient

Method

1. Wash nai bai baby thoroughly and set aside

2. Heat wok with 2 tbsp of oil. Fry garlic until golden brown and fragrant.

3. Add nai bai baby and continue frying for another 5 mins.

4. Add oyster sauce, salt and TikkoSS’s Secret Ingredient

5. Ready to be served.

Chicken Slices with Ginger and Spring Onion

Ingredients

250 g Breast chicken meat (Sliced)

10 g Spring onion (Cut into approximately 2 cm long)

5 g Ginger (Thin sliced)

4 cloves Garlic (Finely chopped)

2 tbsp Oyster sauce

1 tsp Light soy sauce

1 tsp Dark soy sauce

1 tsp TikkoSS’s Secret Ingredient

½ cup Warm water

Method

1. Heat wok with 3 tbsp oil. Fry ginger and garlic until fragrant and golden brown.

2. Add breast chicken meat and fry for 5 minutes.

3. Add oyster sauce, light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, TikkoSS’s Secret Ingredient and warm water.

4. Simmer the mixture over small fire for 10 minutes.

5. Add spring onion and stir for 3 minutes. Ready to be served.