Bean Sprouts with Tofu Puff

Bean Sprouts with Tofu Puff
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Happy New Year! I hope everyone has had a fun and festive celebration and I wish you all a great 2010.

Following my Teochew porridge post on preserved turnip eggs (菜圃蛋), I would like to share with you yet another simple dish that goes well with porridge—bean sprouts with tofu puff. My father loved bean sprouts with bean curd (tofu) but I actually prefer my bean sprouts stir-fried with tofu puff. I just love the idea of tofu puff because of its spongy texture, and that it tends to soak up the flavor of the other ingredients…(get bean sprouts and tofu puff recipe after the jump)

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Bean Sprouts with Salted Fish Recipe

Bean Sprouts with Salted Fish Recipe

Certain dishes include 3 parts nostalgia in the recipe. This is one of those meals; it brings back lots of childhood memories to me–um, all of them bitter and resentful.
I did not appreciate this dish as a child – not because it didn’t taste good or because the stinky smell of salted fish was overpowering–but because I was one who…