Precious Pearl Makan Haven

We started with sharks fins soup. I soaked the fins in chicken stock for 2 days. The end results is actually not clear like this. I added chopped coriander leaves, a dropped egg and thickened it with corn starch. Can be seen in the last picture. We like this version which our aunt cooks it really nice and well. Pre-cook sharks fins soup. Bought a packet of jellyfish. All I did was added sesame oil, seeds, soya sauce, chopped coriander leaves, shredded carrots and cut chillies. I picked lettuce 'cos lettuce in Cantonese is "sung choi". "Sung" has the meaning "live". Hee hee...so pak kua hor? Anyways, this is lettuce in braised dried scallops and sliced abalone. But somebody has to tell me "I prefer abalone on its own." Okay okay, get the hint. Next time, it'll just be out of the can and dip in chopped red chillies. :P SO's favourite dish, assam fish aka assam nanas pedas. Heh heh....the lady at the check-out counter commented "wo...

My kueh tart My maiden effort with kueh mahmod.

In line with the coming CNY, I started to bake cookies. Here's my frist up. Peanut sugee. This year, the end results were really yummylicious! One could really feel the icing sugar melts in the mouth before getting to the core to finish up the cookie. And it's really addictive!

Okay okay....I know it's a bit, okay, not a bit but too early to be posting CNY cookies. Show you first lah and then see what I can come up with next year. :-P

And then I added crushed peanuts to the dough. Jiak liao buay teng.

Love this CNY cookie. Melts in the mouth. Yum yum.

Not really sure how to do this 'cos haven't had this for a long time. I dip nian gao in light batter and then pan fry. Do you think it look like bak kua aka pork jerky? Hur hur~~~~