#fried fishcake

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Mum fried these Salmon Steaks 🐟 for dinner. While frying makes the skin crispy, I preferred eating this oily fish sashimi style or at the very least, half cooked like just torching the surface of the fish. The next dish is Spicy Asparagus with Squid 🦑 and minced pork using our own blend of chilli paste. Most of the time, mum cooked it with tiger prawns as the price of squids are much higher since they are wild caught.

A bowl of reheated Pork & Shrimp Dumpling Soup 🥟 (水饺汤) mum bought in the morning. These Fried Fishcakes (鱼饼) are also from the market which mum fried. In Singapore 🇸🇬, our fishcakes, fish balls and fish paste are typically made from redbelly yellowtail fusilier 🐟 (Caesio cuning) also known as potato fish (黄尾鱼/番薯鱼) or from Spanish mackerel 🐟 (马鲛鱼).

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Back to mum’s Home-Cooked Dinner. She braised a pot of pig’s trotters and pork bellies with shiitake mushrooms 🍄‍🟫 and garlic. 🧄 The reason for cooking both parts of the pig is because sis doesn’t like trotter. Mum also likes to buy fishcakes to fry which she later sliced up. I also added a little bit of kimchi to my plate to spice thing up. 😄

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For my brunch, a pack of Economy Rice (菜饭) takeaway from Chong Pang. Mum chose cabbage 🥬 stir-fry with black fungus and carrot 🥕, fried fishcake, a scoop of jiggly steamed egg and Braised Five-Spice Pork (五香卤肉) to go with the steamed rice.

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Mum is getting old and tires easily, so she is cooking lesser, and I am buying takeaways more often. Must keep reminding her not to buy groceries if she is not going to cook. Many a times, she will cook more than we can eat because the food is expiring soon. For Dinner, I had cabbage 🥬 & prawn 🦐 stir-fry, a steak of fried batang fish 🐟 (Spanish Mackerel), fried fishcake and reheated roasted pork.

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Mum got me this pack of Economy Fried Bee Hoon (经济炒米粉) or Fried Rice Vermicelli for my breakfast. The reason it is called economy bee hoon is because a plate of fried rice vermicelli costs just S$0.80 to S$1.50 and is filling enough for an adult. It is when you started adding toppings like egg, fishcake, ngo hiang (五香卷), cabbage stir-fry etc…, the cost goes up quickly.