Stew Tofu, Black Fungus, and Oyster Mushroom

Sauce :

• oyster sauce
• Maggi sauce
• garlic chili sauce
• water
• cornstarch

Stir fry ground pork until it’s cooked. Add in the tofu, black fungus and oyster mushroom, and stew then in the above sauce for 15 min. Then thicken the sauce by cornstarch. Add chopped green onion.

Black Bean Spareribs with Green Bell Pepper

1. Marinate spareribs with chopped fermented black beans, chopped garlic, dark soy sauce, light soy sauce, sugar, red pepper flakes and ginger powder, rice wine, black pepper powder. Add oil and some cornstarch and water after 20 min.
2. Cut green bell pepper in bite size pieces.
3. Heat wok with oil and ginger. Add the spareribs and the marinade into the wok and keep stir-frying.
4. When the ribs are almost done, add the green bell pepper. Serve when the meat and pepper are done.
5. This goes great with white rice.  Adding onion will make this even better.

Lotus Root Cake

Shred lotus root and chop chinese sausage. Then add fish cake until it is combined. Add salt and white pepper powder. Divide the mixture into small cakes. Pan fry until done. Serve hot with sweet chili sauce or hot chili sauce.

Tofu topped with bamboo fungus and mushroom

1. Soak bamboo fungus in cold water until soft
2. Soak dried mushroom in hot water until soft. Then cut into stripes.
3. Clean the bamboo fungus and cut into short lengths
4. Cut soft tofu into pieces. Microwave for 3 minutes.
5. Heat the wok with oil, chopped garlic and ginger.  Stir fry the fungus and mushroom and sprinkle some cooking wine.
6. Add oyster sauce, few dashes of maggi sauce and water . Stew for 10 minutes. Then thicken the sauce by adding starchy water. Add chopped green onion and few dashes of sesame oil.
7. Pour the mixture onto the tofu.

Microwaved eggplant with sweet soy sauce

1. Cut eggplant and soak them into salty water
2. Microwave the eggplant for 5 min
3. Pour the sauce on the eggplant and sprinkle chopped cilantro on it.

Sauce (to taste) :

• chopped garlic (lots of it)
• dark soy sauce
• light soy sauce
• sugar
• sesame oil

蛤蜊絲瓜 Luffa with Clams

1. Cut 絲瓜 into pieces. Soak rice vermicelli in cold water until it’s soft.
2. Add some ginger and crushed garlic into hot oil, then add 絲瓜.
3. Pour in some cooking wine and stir for about 3 min
4. Add the clams and some broth (chicken broth or seafood broth). Then cover the wok.
5. When the clams start to open, add rice vermicelli into the wok and stir. Cover the wok again.
6. When the clams are widely open, they are done. Don’t overcook it.

Grilled Miso-flavored Eggplant with Salmon Roe

1. Cut the eggplant into half.
2. Mix white miso with equal amount of sake and mirin.
3. Brush some miso mixture on open side of eggplant.Go easy, a little goes a long way.
   
4. Grill the eggplant or broil it.
5. When it’s done, put some raw salmon roe on top of it.

日式煎薄餅-Okonomiyaki

1. Shred cabbage.
2. Mix the okonomiyaki flour, egg and water.
3. Add the shredded cabbage into the flour mixture. Stir evenly.
4. Pan fry the mixture.
5. Put strips of bacon on top.
6. Flip the cake.
7. When the cake is done, squeeze the okonomiyaki sauce and japanese mayo on top.

Luffa 絲瓜 and Beancurd with Dried Shrimp

1. Cut luffa 絲瓜 into pieces
2. Cut each beancurd pocket into 6 pieces
3. Soak a handful of dried shrimp into hot water until soft. Then coarsely chop them.
4. Heat the wok with oil, add the dried shrimp together with some ginger and garlic into hot oil until fragrant.
5. Add luffa 絲瓜 into the wok, pour in some wine and stir.
6. Add some chicken broth and the beancurds. Stir. Then cover the wok.
7. Serve hot when it’s done.

Tomato Egg

- Heat the oil in the wok with high heat
- Turn down the heat and add in egg mixture (salt and pepper in the mixture)
- Keep stirring until the egg is done. Plate it.
- Add in tomato slices with ginger pieces. Add ketchup, water and sugar. When the tomato is almost done, add starchy water to thicken the sauce.
- Pour the tomato sauce on top of the eggs.

Cai Choy topped with Bamboo Fungus

- Cook Cai Choy in chicken soup till it's done. Plate it.
- Soak Bamboo Fungus with cold water until soften. Then clean it and cut it into smaller sizes.
- Add bamboo fungus into hot work, then sprinkle some cooking wine on it.
- Then add oyster sauce and water, cook for 2-3 min. Then add starchy water to thicken the sauce.
- Pour the sauce and bamboo fungus onto Cai Choy.

Korean Style Cold Soy Bean

- Cook soy bean in hot boiling water till it's cooked.
- Rinse with cold water
- Pat dry
- Stir in light soy sauce, red pepper powder, seasame oil and seasame. Ready to serve.

Korean Style Cold Spinach Side Dish

Had a Korean dinner night with the small group members. Bought the beef short ribs and bulgogi from Korean supermarkets. I've also made some side dish to go with it. This one is the cold spinach.

- Cook spinach in boiling water.
- Soak it with cold water to stop the cooking once it's done
- Squeeze water out of the spinach and cut them.
- Stir with light soy sauce, red pepper powder, sugar, seasame oil and some seasame.
- Ready to serve as side dish, or with rice.

Eggplant with Barbeque Pork

This dish is done in microwave, easy and quick.

Ingredients :
- 2 eggplants
- 8-10 pieces of BBQ pork
- 2 cloves of garlic (minced)
- some cilantro
- light soy sauce
- seasame oil

1)Peel eggplant in alternate stripe. Cut the eggplant into slices and soak it in water before use.
2) Microwave the eggplant for 6-8 min
3) When eggplant is done, add light soy sauce and seasame oil to it and stir it until it's evenly coated.
4) BBQ pork cut into shredded form and mix into the eggplant dish.
5) Add in chopped cilantro and minced garlic as well.
6) Stir well and microwave for another 1 min. Then serve hot.

Tofu and Abalone Mushroom Stewed in Oyster Sauce

- Cut the abalone mushroom and blanch it in boiling water
- Pan fry tofu (medium firm)
- Stew tofu & abalone mushroom with oyster sauce, wine, water, pepper, green onion for about 15-20 min.

Soy Stick with Leek

Tried this in a chinese restaurant and it tasted so good. Went to buy the ingredients and tried it at home. It didn't turn out well. The soy stick is too think, maybe next time I can try fresh soy sheet.

- Stir fry some ginger and dried red pepper
- Put in soy stick, add some light soy sauce and water
- When soy sticks soften, add in the leek.
- When the leek softens, add some seasame oil and then serve.

Stir Fry Chinese Leek, Soy Sheet with Shredded Pork

Sea Cucumber and Black Wood Mushroom