Wow, just realised that I've not updated my blog for almost a month now. Me bad! Anyways, here's another cooking post. Enjoy :)

I very seldom try out new recipes for Chinese style cuisine. Of course the normal sweet sour chicken, black pepper chicken dishes etc does not count. No particular reason, could be just that I was unconciously not trying them out as J is quite the fussy eater not too adventurous with his food and as I am trying to control my diet, would not want to be the lone ranger consuming whole dishes on my own. Also, Chinese cuisine is easily obtained when we're in the mood for chinese food and most of the time at reasonable prices too.

Nevertheless as I do blog hop quite a bit at foodie blogs, I do get attracted to the yummylicious photos that they post. So I decided to try out one of my favourites, Braised Soy Sauce Chicken/Lou Kai/See Yau Kai. Got the recipe from here and came siap with recipe for the dipping garlic and ginger sauce. Real easy peasy though I did have a hard time looking for 5 spice powder. Did not tell J what I was cooking nor allowed him near the stove area as I think the dish doesn't look all that appetising to the non-Chinese, being all black looking and all :p

                         

I also tried out another dish, Malaysian Butter Prawn; recipe also googled out from the internet/blog. Finished off with the normal stir fried kangkung belacan for our vege serving (No photos of this as it is really a simple dish consisting ingredients such as garlics, onions, blended dried chili, belacan, some oyster sauce & kangkung).

Now for the verdict...the Lou Kai was yummylicious, even I must say so myself :p Will add in hard boil egg the next time I try this recipe to get my share of those Lou Kai Tan which you see at the herbal shops in the shopping malls.

As for the butter prawns, I did not have a hand whisk and I used a fork as a replacement, the egg mixture turned up way too big (as seen above) when it should have looked like this...

J had no complaints though, and kept asking for more servings of both Lou Kai and the Butter Prawns & egg mixture. That is his way of showing that he likes the dish without having to compliment me :p Next time will make sure I have a hand whisk.

Both dishes are easy to cook with easily attainable ingredients. Will definitely try them out again.

Do you have any Chinese dishes recommendation for me to try out? Nothing too herbal-ish or funny looking to the non-natives though :p Next on my list for prawns will be Fried Prawns in Oats. Now, to google the recipe out.

P/s : Photo quality is rather bad, taken from my Nokia E71 as the D60's camera was flat. Boohoo!