Discover the authentic in Asian cuisine food
To Prep
Steam the herbs with 500ml water for 5 mins.
Place chicken over an aluminium foil and stuff half of the herbs in chicken. Place the rest around the chicken.
Pour the water used to steam the herbs inside foil with the chicken.
To Cook
Wrap the foil up into bundle and steam chicken for 2 hrs.
Add salt to taste, then serve.
To Prep
In a medium bowl, stir together the marinade ingredients and add the chicken pieces. Stir well and refrigerate. Soak the sticky rice for 2 hrs, drain and mix with 2 tbsp dark soy sauce and set aside.
To Cook
Over high heat, add 2 tbsp oil to your wok. When the wok is smoking slightly, add half the mushrooms and stir-fry until they’re browned, tender, and most of the moisture has evaporated.
Heat your wok over high heat again with a couple tablespoons oil. Fry until chicken is golden brown before mixing in the mushrooms, scallions and salt. Stir-fry for a couple minutes to let the flavors meld together.
Combine with the soaked rice. Now you’re ready to wrap them in the lotus leaves. Brush a small section on one end of each leaf lightly with oil. Put about ¾ cup of the mixture on the oiled area. Wrap each into a rectangle, tie with kitchen string, and steam for about 90 mins.
You can serve with a little chili oil or allow them to cool, place into freezer bags, and freeze for later! When you’re ready to eat them, just steam them right out of the freezer for about 30 mins.
To Prep
Make sure your chicken is dry then mix with the seasoning ingredients in a mixing bowl. Cover and allow the chicken to marinate for 20 minutes.
To Cook
Blanch the soaked lily buds and black fungus in boiling water for a couple of minutes.
Cut the soaked mushrooms and blanched black fungus into strips.
Add the lily buds, black fungus, mushrooms, and ginger to the marinated chicken and mix well.
Steam the chicken in a steamer until the chicken is cooked through (about 20 minutes). Make sure the water is boiling in the steamer before placing the chicken in.
Garnish with the chopped spring onions and serve hot with some white rice.
For the Braised Pork
Blanch pork trotter in water and 3 slices of ginger for 5 mins. This will lessen the porky smell. Drain and rinse the pork. Set aside.
Rub salt and dark soy sauce on pork trotter.
In a wok, heat 2 tbsp oil and sear all sides of the pork trotter until browned and set aside.
In the same wok, pan-fry shiitake mushrooms and dried oysters for 1-2 mins and set aside.
Prepare a pressure cooker. Add pork trotter, shiitake mushrooms, dried oysters and all the remaining ingredients. Fill pressure cooker with water enough to immerse the pork. Seal the lid and cook on high for 30-40 mins and until sauce thickens slightly. Add in the black moss fungus and stir.
Taste test and adjust with more rock sugar or soy sauce if necessary.
For the Seafood Vegetables
In a small pot, fill half full with water and bring to boil. Add Shaoxing wine, spring onions and ginger slices. Keep boiling for another 5 mins.
Add prawns and scallops to the pot to poach for about 2-3 mins. Drain prawns and scallops and set aside.
In another pot, bring chicken stock, wombok and daikon to boil then simmer until daikon is tender. Remove wombok and daikon from the pot and set aside.
With the chicken stock still boiling, add abalone into the pot to cook for 1 min and set aside. Then, blanch broccoli until tender and set aside.
To assemble the Pun Choy
Prepare a large pot, about 28-30cm in diameter and 10-15 cm in depth.
Layer the base with wombok. Save some to place on top with the other ingredients.
Carefully arrange the rest of the ingredients around the pot. There are no set rules, but you’d want to display all the ingredients in their full glory.
Lastly, get your loved ones together and dig in!
To Prep the Chicken Katsu
Preheat the oven to 200°C. Line a rimmed baking sheet with parchment paper on a baking tray.
Heat up frying pan on medium heat and combine the panko and toast until golden brown. Transfer panko into a shallow dish and allow to cool.
Butterfly and cut the chicken breast. Pound the chicken to equal thickness if necessary. Sprinkle salt and pepper on both sides of the chicken.
In a shallow dish, add flour and in another dish, whisk together the egg and water.
Dredge each chicken piece in the flour to coat completely, pat off the excess flour. Then dip into the egg mixture and finally coat with the toasted panko.
Place the chicken pieces on the prepared baking sheet and bake for about 25-30 mins.
To Prep the Onigirazu
Place a cling wrap on a chopping board and put a sheet of nori seaweed on top (shiny side facing down).
Evenly spread the steamed rice (thinly) to form into a square shape in the centre of nori sheet. Sprinkle a little bit of salt.
Place the shredded cabbage evenly on top of rice and then the chicken katsu on top.
Spread the mustard and tonkatsu sauce on the chicken katsu and flip the chicken so the sauce is on the cabbage.
Place another thin layer of steamed rice on top of the chicken katsu. Fold left and right corners of nori sheet towards the centre. Fold gently but tightly to wrap around the layers at the centre.
Then fold bottom and top corners towards the centre. Fold gently but tightly around the layers. Ensure the rice is tucked in nicely.
Wrap with cling wrap tightly and set aside for 3 mins.
Cut the onigirazu with a sharp and clean knife. Run your knife in cold water before cutting so that the cross-section will be clean.
To Cook
In a wok, heat oil over medium-high heat. Add the onions and garlic and stir-fry until aromatic.
Add the chicken cubes and stir-fry until half cooked. Then, add curry powder, turmeric, cumin, sugar, black pepper, curry leaves and salt. Stir to mix well and allow to cook for another few minutes.
In the meantime, make a cornstarch slurry by mixing the chicken stock with 1 tbsp of cornstarch. Keep stirring while you pour the mixture into the chicken. Leave to simmer for a few minutes until the chicken mixture thickens. Transfer to a bowl and set aside to cool.
Cut each sheet of puff pastry into 6-8cm squares.
Spoon about 2 tbsp of filling onto each square. Then fold pastry diagonally to form a triangle, and press the edges together with you fingers. To make sure the edges are sealed, press the edges with a fork. Transfer curry puffs to a baking tray lined with baking paper. Repeat until all filling/pastry is used up.
Preheat oven to 200ºC.
Brush the curry puffs with egg wash, then bake for 15-20 mins, or until golden brown.
Set aside to cool before serving. Careful, the filling gets piping hot when fresh out of the oven.
To Prep the Filling
In a frying pan or wok, combine all ingredients except fried onions and cook for about 15 mins over medium-high heat.
Then, add fried onions and cook a further 5 mins.
Preparing the dough:
For Dough 1
Using a mixer, combine all Dough 1 ingredients and knead at medium-high speed for about 4-5 mins. Set aside.
For Dough 2
Then, combine ingredients for Dough 2 in the mixing bowl, and knead at medium-high speed for 1-2 mins. The texture should be quite firm. Do not over knead.
To Make the Siew Pao
Preheat oven to 200°C.
Portion Dough 2 into 3cm balls, and Dough 1 into 6cm balls. Individually wrap Dough 2 balls in Dough 1, then use a rolling pin to roll into an oblong strip. Roll up the strip of dough, turn 90° and roll out again with a rolling pin. Repeat 2-3 times for a flakier texture to the pastry. Roll up into a cylinder, then turn on its side and flatten into a round shape with rolling pin.
Fill dough with 2 tsps filling, gather the edges to the center to wrap around the filling, and seal the edges.
Bake in pre-heated oven for 20 mins at 200°C, then remove and brush with egg yolk and milk mixture. Return to oven for another 10 mins. Remove and serve.
To Cook
Heat oil over low heat. Add Valcom Basil Stir-Fry Paste and stir-fry until fragrant.
Add chicken and stir-fry over high heat until cooked. Stir in fish sauce, sugar and water.
Garnish with basil leaves, then remove from heat.
To Cook
Marinate the chicken thigh with soy sauce and set aside.
Combine mirin seasoning, rice wine vinegar, salt, water and sugar in a pot and bring to the boil. Turn to medium heat and cook until the liquid thickens.
Cool the mixture until cold, add lemon juice, coriander, long red chilli and crushed peanuts, mix well.
Coat the marinated chicken thigh fillet with tempura batter mix and tap off excess flour. Heat vegetable oil to 175°C and fry until crispy and cooked through.
To serve, place chicken fillet on a sharing plate and pour over sauce. Serve hot.
To Cook
In a bowl, add ½ tbsp sesame oil, ½ tbsp soy sauce, honey and chicken pieces. Mix well to coat chicken pieces evenly with marinade.
Heat a frying pan over medium-high heat. Pan-fry chicken strips until fully cooked through. Then, set aside to cool.
In a small pot, blanch bok choy, enoki mushroom and corn. Then, set aside to cool
Gather all the ingredients and prepare two clean jars.
Assemble your jars by layering – green and red cabbage, enoki mushroom, chicken slices, bok choy, carrot, more cabbage and corn. Drizzle leftover oil from the pan into the jars if desired. Seal the jars and refrigerate up to 3-5 days.
When you’re ready to eat, dig in or, empty jar contents into a bowl, and add any dressing, salt or pepper if desired.
To Cook
In a bowl, add 5 tbsp teriyaki sauce to chicken tenderloins. Set aside to marinate for 5 mins.
In the meantime, add sushi rice seasoning to rice and mix well.
Add 1 tbsp oil to a pan, and heat over medium-high heat. Add chicken tenderloins and pan-fry for 5-10 mins, or until meat is fully cooked through. Then, set chicken pieces aside to cool. Once cooled, slice to bite-sized pieces.
Gather all the ingredients and prepare four clean jars.
Start assembling by adding 2 tbsp teriyaki sauce to each jar. Then, add ingredients layer by layer – chicken pieces, cucumber, red cabbage, corn, shiitake mushroom, seaweed salad, sushi rice, and top with pickled ginger and a sprinkling of sesame seeds.
Refrigerate jars up to 5 days. Enjoy meal straight from the jar or, empty all contents into a bowl and tuck in!
To Cook
Bring 5L water to the simmer in a large saucepan over medium heat, plunge in chicken, cook for 10-20 seconds, then rinse under cold running water (discard water).
Transfer chicken to a clean saucepan and add Shaoxing wine, ginger, ½ tsp sea salt and top up with enough cold water to cover generously.
Bring it to a boil and then reduce heat to low-medium and gently simmer until chicken is cooked through for 1-1¼ hours.
Remove from heat and let chicken cool completely in liquid for about 3-4 hours.
Coarsely shred meat (discard skin, bones and sinew) and transfer to a bowl.
While the chicken is cooling, make the dressing. Combine ginger, garlic and 120ml hot water in a bowl and stand to infuse (20 min).
Pass through a fine sieve (discard solids) into a clean bowl, add remaining ingredients and set aside.
Blanch bean sprouts in a saucepan of simmering water until just wilted for about 5 secs.
Refresh in iced water, drain well and place over a serving platter.
Top the chicken, drizzle the dressing, garnish with spring onion and sesame seeds and serve at room temperature.
