I had been in the National Service (PLKN) for 6 weeks and it had been quite a long time I never had homecooked food. I eat lousy food everyday in camp, it’s always chicken and fish, cooked in Malay style and most of the time were not delicious at all. This time I came back from camp, I finally get to indulge in my grandma’s delicious cooking. Yummy!

Yesterday afternoon I went to Grandma’s place and she cooked 4 dishes for lunch and all of them were damn nice!

Fried Belachan Chicken

Vegetarian Duck

Sour and Spicy Fish

Siong Tong Yuen Choi. Basically it’s vegetable, salted egg, century egg cooked together with soup.

Grandma’s food rocks and NS food does not rocks, except the chicken in camp hard like a rock. LOL

Although Chinese New Year is over now, I still want to share with you some homecooked food that grandma cook during Chinese New Year for the reunion. Yummy! Know any of these?

Roasted Pork. 烧肉 (mandarin: shao1 rou4, cantonese: siu yok, hokkien: sio bak) Bought from Pulau Tikus’ market. My favourite!

Cooked mushroom.

Fried Mangkuang, Hainanese food.

Prawn cooked in don’t know what sauce. Tasted a bit sweet and spicy.

Hainanese Spring Roll, bought from the Pulau Tikus’ market too! Nice nice.

Lastly, there’s the Pork Leg cooked with Yam. Not my favourite though. XD

Last week, I went to a friend place to talk and found out that they were making cupcakes. I didn’t really know how to make and when I was there, they were almost finished.

Chocolate flavour with homemade chocolate vanilla cream topping.

Looks not bad, but FAILED. The cream was too soft, too creamy, melted and the cupcake muffin was too, I don’t know how to describe, it’s not crispy enough, it’s like not harden enough too. Weird feel. Gonna try again with other flavour next time.

This is not a normal tang yuan because my grandmother has added ginger while making the tang yuan. Do you like tang yuan? Frankly, I don’t really like. I’ve tried tang yuan with wasabi in it and it taste good. Hehe.

Tāngyuán is a Chinese food made from glutinous rice flour. Glutinous rice flour is mixed with a small amount of water to form balls and is then cooked and served in boiling water. Tangyuan can be either filled or unfilled. It is traditionally eaten during Yuanxiao, or the Lantern Festival. [wikipedia]

Happy Winter Solstice Festival! =)

Get home and celebrate this wonderful Chinese Dong Zhi 冬至 festival with your family, it’s time for some reunion.