Ginger and Scallions Chicken Recipe (姜葱鸡)

Stir-fried chicken with ginger and scallions (姜葱鸡) is a traditional Chinese dish. As simple as the ingredients sound, this is not an easy dish to cook well. This dish needs a lot of wok skills. Hence, this ginger-and-scallions style of cooking is often my litmus test when I go to a new Chinese/Cantonese restaurant. If a chef can make a…

Feeling Under the Weather…

I’ve been feeling unwell since Monday and lost much of my appetite. My severe headache is killing me, my throat is scratchy, I have blocked nose and can’t breathe. Arrrghhh!

Luckily this bowl of steaming hot beehoon/vermicelli soup came to my rescue. Unlike my mother’s common belief that porridge/congee has magic healing power when one is sick, I opted for this…

Yong Tow Foo/Yong Tau Fu Recipe

For the hungry eyes such as this, this, and this, please ogle your food porn. And while you are at it, wear a napkin around your neck. (Rumor has it that a certain uncle is contemplating a new career in tissue paper manufacturing, specially for Rasa Malaysia readers!)
For the budding cook and serious cooks such as that, that, and that,…

Thai Yellow Curry with Seafood Recipe

(This is the last post of the Shellfish Overload series.)
What do you do when you have different kinds of shellfish but do not want to cook up a storm by getting into a complicated and time-consuming recipe such as bouillabaisse? Well, you make Thai yellow curry.
This dish is so simple to create and takes no more than 30 minutes, but…

Steamed Tofu with Ground Pork Recipe

Rasa Malaysia 30-minute meal is back and this time with a homey recipe that would remind everyone of your mom’s cooking.

A painless, hassle-free dish that is surprisingly (and extraordinarily) satisfactory.

Just look at the soft and smooth as silk tofu with the generous toppings of ground pork, dried shrimps, and fresh scallions…need I say more?

Steamed Tofu with Ground Pork Recipe
Ingredients:
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Drunken Clams Recipe

If you are a regular reader of Rasa Malaysia, you should know by now that I looooove seafood, especially clams. Previously, I have written about these little creatures here and here.
While I like most of my foods with layers upon layers of complicated flavors or explosively spicy, sometimes I like things simple but intoxicating, such as the Drunken Clams dish…