East Meets West Sandwich

Mee Koo kuih is a type of Chinese bread. It is used for praying. Our family bought some for the Hungry Gosh Festival last weekend. I brought home 2 of them, and I told hubby that I'm going to make him a special breakfast on Merdeka Day, hehe......

So, here it is. My version of East Meets West Sandwich. Unlike the bread that tastes a little bit salty, Mee Koo actually tastes a little bit sweet. It is a good ingredient to make sandwich with salty ingredients like ham and cheese. We like the taste very much. With a cup of hot chocolate drink, it's indeed a satisfying breakfast.

East Meets West Sandwich

Serves 2

Ingredients:

2 pcs of Mee Koo kuih

2 pcs of chicken sandwich ham

2 Omega-3 egg

2 pcs of cheddar cheese

1 tbsp of cooking oil

Method:

1. Half the Mee Koo kuih horizontally. Steam it under high heat for 5 minutes. Leave it cool and remove its skin.

2. Pan-fry an egg and folded into half. Repeat for another egg.

3. Pan-fry the hams.

4. Arrange the ham, egg, and cheese in between the Mee Koo kuih.

Yam Rice 芋头饭

Yam rice is my hubby's favorite. However, delicious yam rice is hard to find nowadays. Mostly the yam rice that served at bak kut teh or yong tau foo stalls are lacked of ingredients and taste. Majority looks dark in color and just contain very few pieces of yam.

I love generous amount of ingredients in my yam rice. That's the benefit of cooking it myself. I just learned how to make the yam rice from my mum. This is my first time of making it, and it turned out perfectly great. :P Hurray!

Without Yong Tau Foo or Bak Kut Teh, the Yam rice tastes good on its own. It's a complete meal too. I like to serve it with homemade sambal belacan.

Yam Rice
Serves 4

Ingredients:

2 cups of rice (washed and drained)
200 gm lean pork (cut into thin strips)
100 gm char siew (cut into thin strips)
20 gm of dried shrimp (washed and de-shelled)
6 dried mushrooms (soaked, removed stalk and cut into thin strips)
300gm yam (skinned, and cut into 1cm ³ cubes)
5 clove of garlic (finely chopped)
7 shallots (skinned and thinly sliced)
1 stalk of kai-lan (chopped)
water/chicken stock (adequate amount used to cook 2 cups of rice)
sunflower oil

Seasoning:

2 tbsp of oyster sauce
5 tbsp of light soy sauce
1 tbsp of dark soy sauce
1 tbsp of sesame oil
dash of white pepper

Method:

1. Heat some oil in a wok, fry shallots till golden yellow. Add the garlic to saute till fragrant.

2. Pour in char siew, pork, mushroom and dried shrimps. Stir fry till you smell the aroma.

3. Add the yam cubes and rice to mix well.

4. Add seasonings and water. Bring it to a boil.

5. Pour everything into rice cooker, and cook.

6. Mean while, stir-fry kai-lan with some oyster sauce. Set aside.

7. Once cooked, serve it with the stir-fried kai-lan. It's best serve with home made sambal belacan.

Happy National Day to all Malaysian! "Satu Malaysia, Untuk Semua!"

"I ♥ Your Blog" Award From Elinluv's Tidbits Corner

Thanks to Elin for the award. She dedicated 2 awards to me since July.

Ok, now is my turn to answer the questions.

1. What is your current obsession?
Home cooking

2. What are you wearing today?
Blouse and slacks

3. What’s for dinner?
Tonight will go for home cooked vegetarian

4. What’s the last thing you bought?
Cooking ingredients from Tesco

5. What are you listening to right now?
Nothing

6. What do you think about the person who tagged you?
Elin is a good mumsie who always prepare yummylisious food for her hubby & 2 piggies. She shares her secret recipes which suits my taste.

7. If you could have a house totally paid for, fully furnished anywhere in the world, where would you like it to be?
It'll be still Malaysia

8. What are your must-have pieces for summer?
Jeans and lady T-shirts

9. If you could go anywhere in the world for the next hour, where would you go?
Paris

10. Which language do you want to learn?
I think I should master my Japanese language before I move on to the other.

11. Who do you want to meet right now?
My old classmates

12. What is your favorite color?
Black

13. What is your favorite piece of clothing in your own closet?
Jeans

14. What is your dream job?
Err.......famous beautician, hair dresser?

15. What’s your favorite magazine?
Reader's Digest

16. If you had $100 now, what would you spend it on?
Shopping for clothes

17. What do you consider a fashion faux pas?
No idea

18. Who are your style icons?
No idea

19. Describe your personal style?
Just be myself

21. What are your favorite movies?
Oppss, I can't remember most of the names.

22. Give us three styling tips that always work for you?
Hair blowing, apply gel and form a style

23. Coffee or tea?
Coffee

24. What do you do when you are feeling low or terribly depressed?
looking for a nice recipe and cook it out

25. What is the meaning of your name?
pretty

26. Which other blogs you love visiting?
food and personal blogs

27. Favorite Dessert/Sweet?
Tiramitsu

28. Favorite Season?
summer

29.Which is your dream destination?
Paris

30: Which is your favorite international cuisine ?
Italian

31.Your favorite kitchen tool?
A good wok

32. Which kitchen tool or equipment, you have wanted for a long time?
Griller

My Question
Have you ever bake your own pizza? What flavor?

The Rules

Respond and rework – answer the questions on your own blog, replace one question that you dislike with a question of your own invention, and add one more question of your own. Then tag eight or ten other people.

I would love to pass this "I ♥ Your Blog" award to:

More Than Words
Duckie's Food Blog
Selby's Food Corner
My Love. My Food
Buzzing With Food
and of course not to forget......
Elinluv's Tidbits Corner

Chicken & Cheese Paratha Wraps

The other day after our shopping at Queensbay Mall, we dropped by the Hot & Roll stall to buy a Paratha wrap for supper. I took a bite in order to discover the fillings for their Chicken & Cheese Paratha Wrap. Then I made up my mind to make a similar wraps at home. Although this is a kind of finger food, but we have it as our dinner. Save me lots of time to think of what to cook. Hubby is more than happy for this type of dinner. :)

Chicken & Cheese Paratha Wraps
5 wraps

Ingredients:

5 pcs of Paratha bread
4 pcs of ham
half of yellow onion, chopped
4 pcs cheddar cheese, cut into strips
8 leaves of butter head, julienne
thousand island sauce
1 tbsp cooking oil

Method:

1. Heat a non stick pan. Pan fry both side of frozen Paratha bread. Repeat for all 5 pieces.

2. Heat a tbsp of oil in the same pan. Pan fry both side of ham. Repeat for all 4 pieces of hams. Leave it cool and cut into wide strips.

3. Put a Paratha bread on a flat surface. Arrange the ham, cheddar cheese, chopped onion, julienne butter head on the Paratha bread. Drizzle some thousand island sauce. Fold the Paratha bread into half and then fold into quarter.

A Short Break

Hi all, I'll take a short break from blogging and blog hopping until next week.

I was just blogged about grandma-in-law's recipe on stir-fried vermicelli in tomato sauce, but now she is no longer with us. She passed away on Wednesday evening. She could eat, story telling and walk just like usual before she suddenly felt weak.

Grandma, don't worry about us. Just rest in peace.