Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Dishes of Home Birthday Dinner

A dinner was planned at home couple of weeks back, for celebration of my sister birthday. My wife and sister cooked some awesome food for that dinner and would post it here for my apetide induction.


Steam deboned chicken in chinese wine.

My wife read about this dish from recipe magazine somewhere and opted for it as one of the main dishes that evening. The preparation involves deboning the chicken, tie it up with strings to hold its shape and marinate in Chinese herbs and after that got it steamed, follow by marinate it in Chinese wine for couple of hours before serving it.

This dish was impressive with the combined taste of chicken and chinese wine that blended very well. Though the level of saltiness is a bit insufficient in my liking but the thick aroma came out from a mouthfull chew was really good.


Stew pig-skin in sweet-and-spicy pineapple curry

The process of stewing this crunchy pig skin in the curry made it absorbed with pineapple aroma, and when you chew it they flood your mouth with rich good taste. Very appetizing and made me taking it irresistibly!


My sister favorite; gravy of stew pork and innards.

This dish was cooked as gravy for "mee-sua" (fine dry noodle), and it has been a tradition to add chicken eggs for giving longevity to the birthday person. Dip-fried lard is added to add rich flavor of it. Nice Chinese food but one could not take it much for it is too "riching"!



A steamed sweetlip.

Told my sister that the taste of this specie is rather plain and perhaps she can do something about it. She put oyster sauce on it and kept it aside for sometime before got it steamed. The outcome was not bad; taste better with some MSG from the oyster sauce I believed. A brilliantly fresh fish nevertheless.

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