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Back to mum’s home-cooked dinner. Two Black Pomfrets 🐟 (Parastromateus niger) or 黑鲳 with heads removed and seasoned are pan-fried till the skin is crispy. Dou Miao (豆苗) or pea shoots 🌿 stir-fried with canned abalones, prawns 🦐, minced pork and tomato 🍅 wedges in oyster sauce to go with steamed rice.
Next day dinner is more of the Dou Miao 🌿 (豆苗) stir-fried with prawns 🦐 and minced pork. Mum went back to frying the Ngoh Her (午鱼) or Threadfin 🐟 fish. The three new items are all made from fish paste, and they are fishcakes, fish balls and bean curd skin rolls.
Sis prepared Herbal Chicken (药材鸡) for our dinner. Instead of a whole chicken, she used three whole chicken legs 🍗, one for each of us. She cooked the chicken on the stove then transfer it to the thermal pot to let it slowly cook with the residual heat. When we are ready to eat, she heated up the dish again. The result, soft and tender meat packed full of herbal 🌿 aromatic. The gravy we drizzled over the white rice and that boosted up the flavour profile a couple of notches. Mum did a quick stir-fry of the Dou Miao 🌿 (豆苗) or Pea’s Shoots with Prawn 🦐 and minced pork to add on to the other dish. Paired both the dishes with a small scoop of the purple & white steamed rice.
Home-cooked Pea Shoots with Abalones, prawns 🦐, minced pork and tomato 🍅 wedges. There are two types of Dou Miao 🌿 (豆苗) you can find in Singapore. One is the tiny sprouts which is called Xiao (small) Dou Miao 🌿 (小豆苗) and the other is Da (big) Dou Miao 🌿 (大豆苗) which is the young shoots of the pea vines. The latter is harvested from more mature pea plants, has a more desirable tender texture, a sweeter and juicier flavour, and a higher proportion of leaf to stem, thus more expensive. Small Dou Miao are young sprouts that grow faster and are therefore more affordable.
The Roasted Pork 🐖 (烧肉) mum reheated it to crisp up the skin though it also makes the meat drier. For the pea shoots stir-fry, there is no need to have both types of seafood in there but then mum does thing her own way. Here, I am pairing the dishes with a mixture of steamed purple and white rice.
Mum is getting older and she tires easily so she is cooking lesser and relied on me to buy home food. Here is the Dou Miao (豆苗) or pea shoots 🌿 she stir-fried with prawns, minced pork and tomato. The other dish is Threadfin with Leeks which I much preferred over frying the fish 🐟 in oil. Locally we called this fish Ngoh Her (午鱼) which is either Indian Threadfin (Leptomelanosoma indicum) and Fourfinger Threadfin (Eleutheronema tetradactylum).
Presenting you my Home-Cooked Dinner for tonight. Other than the stall bought pork & shrimp dumplings, the other three dishes were prepared by mum. Starting from the top left-hand corner is spicy red snapper with bamboo shoot. Dumplings is next, followed by dou miao (豆苗) or pea shoots with squid and fried fishcake. Steamed rice is a mixture of white jasmine rice and purple rice.
Dinner usually means mum’s home cooked food. Tonight’s dinner has a Fried Black Pomfret (Parastromateus niger), stir-fried Pea Shoots or large dou miao (大豆苗) with stall bought Pork & Shrimp Dumplings. Since the fish is quite big, I took less of the steamed white rice.
Mum’s Home-Cooked Dinner with a crispy fried red snapper 🐟 steak, stall bought roasted chicken from her morning trip to the market and stir-fried dou miao 🌿 (豆苗) or pea shoots with pork belly. Of course, we paired the dishes with steamed white rice since it is the main staple in Southeast Asia.
