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  BAKWAN KEPETING Bakwan kepeting is a southern nyonya dish...... The star of the show is the meatballs that's made with minced pork, prawns, crab meat and bamboo shoots....... Bakwan means meatball, kepeting is crab in the peranakan language...... This was something my grandma used to make, and I've not had this since she passed, so I decided to give this a shot and buy, it didn't disappoint! It's a pretty tedious job, peeling the crab for its meat, but done correctly, this is a dish made in heaven! Here's what u need....... Ingredients  1. 150g minced pork  2. 150g crab meat  3. 150g prawns, peeled and chopped into small pieces  4. 70g bamboo shoots, diced  5. 2 teaspoons soy sauce  6. 1 teaspoon white pepper  7. 100g turnips, cut to strips  8. 100g bamboo shoots, cut to strips  9. 5 cloves Minced garlic  10. 1 small egg 11. Corriander leaves to garnish  Method  Boil the crabs and prawn shells. Save the water as it will be used as stock  Mix the peeled crab, prawn

  CHINAMAN'S SALAD  Gained a lot of weight during CNY, so I'm going on a low carb diet for a month or two to try to lose a couple of kilos..... This recipe was inspired by a meal I had in a cafe a few months ago..... Ingredients  2 eggs  Carrot  Cucumber  Baby butterhead lettuce  2 tablespoons Crispy pork lard and oil  1 tablespoon Spicy black bean paste  1 tablespoon Oyster sauce  1 tablespoon Sesame oil  1 tablespoon black rice vinegar 100g minced pork Method  In a pot of hot salted water cook the eggs for 7mins and dunk it into cold water...... Peel the shell off and cut into halves  Cut the carrot and cucumber into thin strips and dress with the black bean sauce, vinegar and pork lard  Marinade the minced pork with sesame oil and oyster sauce.  In a pot of hot water, cook the pork till it changes colour...... Do not overcook it..... Drain the water and put it aside..... On a plate, line it with butterhead lettuce, place the carrot and cucumber in the middle with the eggs an

  MEE YOKE / PRAWN MEE  Not difficult to make, but if do it properly you will be rewarded with this excellent bowl of Mee Yoke! It helps when u have some of my multi purpose sambal in the fridge. If u don't, this is the link.....  https://thatbloddybotak.blogspot.com/2021/08/multi-purpose-sambal.html?m=1 I usually save all the heads of the prawns I use to cook other dishes, so whenever I have a big bag of prawn heads, this is one of the dishes I'll make...... This is what u need....... Ingredients 1kg prawn heads  1 egg 500g pork belly  Some fried onions  Some deep fried pork fat  500g small prawns, peeled  5 heaped tablespoons of my multi purpose sambal  Some towgay  Some kangkong  Enough noodles for 1  Enough mee hoon for 1 3 litres of water  20g rock sugar  Some salt to taste  Method  Soak the Mee Hoon in water till soft  Boil some water and make the hard boiled egg In a pot with some oil, stir fry the prawn heads till crispy  Use a potato masher and mash up the prawn heads