#sesquipedalis

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We also heated up the half portion of Salt Baked Chicken (盐焗鸡) we bought online from Gim Tim (锦珍酒楼) for dinner. Flavour wise, it is tender but nothing to shout about or make me want to eat it again the next time. Here, I am pairing the whole chicken leg 🍗 with stir-fried long beans & prawns.

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This Prawn Rolls (五香虾枣) is part of the online bundle we bought from Gim Tim (锦珍酒楼). Boasting crispy bean curd skin wrapping, these bite-sized nuggets with decent pork & shrimp filling are good as a standalone snack or to accompany the rice.

For dinner, mum also prepared Poached Pork Belly with a drizzle of soya sauce. Next dish is the Stewed Bean Curd with minced pork and tomato. And finally, stir-fried long bean with garlic and a little of our home-made chilli paste.

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Another simple home-cooked Dinner with slices of boiled pork belly drizzled with soya sauce and some home-blended chilli 🌶 paste to give it flavours. For the vegetable dish, stir-fried long beans (Vigna unguiculata subsp. sesquipedalis) with shrimps. 🦐

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Yardlong Beans

Maybe I cheated a little. This photo should be familiar to every fisherman since the invention of the camera. While not truly a yard in length, these beans are still huge compared to my Old Homestead and Rattlesnake beans. They are Vigna unguiculata sesquipedalis, the yardlong bean. Also known as snake beans or asparagus beans, this south Asian crop is actually a variety of cowpea, closely…

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