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Chinese Food in Aberdeen

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..

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Tofu with Mince Pork

Tofu with Mince Pork

Ingredients

1 tube Silken Tofu

½ cup Carrot cubes

10 g Needle mushroom

50 g Mince pork (Marinate with 1 tsp soy sauce, 2 dashes pepper and 1 tsp sesame oil)

1 Chilly (Finely chopped)

3 cloves Garlic (Finely chopped)

½ tbsp Light soy sauce

½ tbsp Oyster sauce

½ tbsp Dark soy sauce

½ tsp Sugar

1 tsp TikkoSS’s Secret Ingredient

½ cup Warm water

½ tsp Corn flour (Mix with 1 tbsp water)

 

Method

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

2. Add mince pork and fry for 5 mins. Add carrot and needle mushroom. Continue frying for 5 mins.

3. Add and mash tofu in the wok for 5 mins.

4. Add warm water, light soy sauce, oyster sauce, dark soy sauce and TikkoSS’s Secret Ingredient. Simmer over small fire for 5 mins.

5. Add sugar and mixture of corn flour. Ready to be served.

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Stir Fried Long Beans with Onion

Stir Fried Long Beans with Onion

Ingredients

100 g Long Beans

3 Onion

¾ tbsp Light soy sauce

½ tsp TikkoSS’s Secret Ingredient

½ tbsp Oyster sauce

 

Method

1. Cut long beans into small cubes and onion into thin slices.

2. Heat wok with 2 tbsp of oil. Fry onion until soft and fragrant.

3. Add long beans and continue frying until soft

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

5. Ready to be served.

 

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French Beans with Tau Kua

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.

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Stir Fried Baby Dow Miow

Stir Fried Baby Dow Miow

Ingredients

100 g Baby Dow Miow

4 cloves Garlic

1 Chilly

1 tsp Salt

1 tsp Oyster sauce

½ tbsp TikkoSS’s Secret Ingredient

 

Method

1. Wash baby dow miow thoroughly. Finely chopped garlic and chilly.

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

3. Add baby dow miow and fry for 8 mins.

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

5. Ready to be served.

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Stir Fried French Beans with Fish Balls

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.

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Tofu with Chinese Chives Flower

Tofu with Chinese Chives Flower

Ingredients

1 tube Silken tofu

20 g Chinese Chives Flower (Cut into approximately 2.5 cm long each)

3 cloves Garlic (Finely chopped)

½ tbsp Light soy sauce

½ tbsp Oyster sauce

1 tsp TikkoSS’s Secret Ingredient

1 tsp Corn flour (Mix with 1 tbsp water)

 

Method

1. Cut silken tofu into approximately 1 cm thick each and steam for 5 mins. Remove water after steaming and set aside on a plate.

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

3. Add Chinese Chives Flower and fry for 5 mins.

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

5. Add corn flour mixture and transfer Chinese chives flower onto the steamed tofu. Ready to be served.

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Russian Beze Cookies

Last Saturday, while walking around the local market, I spotted this shop which sells a lot of traditional desserts. Yes, I am a fan of dessert and no, I am not so adventurous to try out all of it. My taste buds are customized to Malaysian desserts and not intending to change it yet.

While wiping away my drooling saliva, all of the sudden, I spotted this. The local called it Beze or Meringues or Russian Beze Cookies but I called it, the heaven of all dessert. Most of the dessert that I ate before are kind of too sweet, too fattening, too creamy and too ugly :P but this one is completely different.

This whole pack costs about ~RM4. Yes, it is not expensive. The uniqueness of this dessert is not on the sweetness but at the texture of it. It is crispy inside out and will not stick on your teeth too.

Once you take the first bite, you will definitely crave for the second one. Half way enjoying these cookies, I was wondering what if I am addicted to it and unable to get it elsewhere.

So, I decided to learn how to make it. The cost of making this is probably just few cents and it is not difficult at all.

 

Ingredient

2 x egg whites

1/3 cup of sugar.

 

Method

1. Simply put egg white to the mixer bowl and start beating it on high speed. Please ensure not a single drop of water or oil or it will ruin the whole cookies making process.

2. Beat egg white until it form solid white foam about 3 times the volume of the initial egg whites. Then add sugar spoon by spoon and continue beating it until all sugar is mixed and completely dissolved.

3. Warm oven up to 210F . Use pastry bag to pipe the filling onto parchment paper (normally use baking tray for easier handling).

4. Put baking tray into oven and let it dry for 1 – 1.5 hours (this is depending on size). It takes longer to dry if it is bigger in size.

5. Let it cool down. Once cooled down, it is ready to be served.

Remember to put it in air tight container too!

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Stewed Chicken with Mushroom & Carrot

Stewed Chicken with Mushroom & Carrot

Ingredients

1 Chicken Thigh (Skinless)

1 Carrot (Cut into small pieces)

3 Mushrooms (Soak until soft and cut half each)

20 g Siow Pai Chai

½ tbsp Salt

1 tsp TikkoSS’s Secret Ingredient

1 cup Water

 

Ingredients A

1 tbsp Light soy sauce

2 dash White ground pepper

10 g Ginger (Slices)

 

Method

1. Wash and remove the skin of chicken thigh

2. Marinate chicken thigh for 1 hour with Ingredients A

3. Put all ingredients into  pressure cooker

4. Cook for 30mins (Cooking time may varies with cooking method i.e. if you are using pot rather than pressure cooker, the cooking time could be longer)

5. Ready to be served.

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Stir Fried Nai Bai Baby with Garlic

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.

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