Chicken Curry

Curry is one of the easiest dish to prepare but first you need to get the ingredients right. Asian Curry should not be sweet, normally no sugar is added to the dish, it should have a distinct curry flavour with a touch of little sourness. Another item should not add is carrot, it will make the curry sweet and flavour the curry with carrot taste, carrot is good for stew.

In South East Asia there are many version of curries, Chinese, Nonya, Malay, Indian or Thai. To me Japanese Curry is not curry, it is just a stew cook in curry powder. An authentic curry should have a layer of oil which is the curry powder oil. Here is my version I have integrated from my mother's Nonya Curry and my ex-wife's Malay Curry, but the basic cooking style remains the same.

Thien Kee Steamboat

Authentic Hainanese Chicken Rice and Steamboat

Golden Mile Thien Kee Pte Ltd

B1-20 Golden Mile Tower

Beach Road Singapore 199589

Tel : 6298 5891 / 6293 5910
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First time I visited this restaurant was back in 1978 when grandfather took us there for dinner. Since then I have visited this authentic Hainanese Restaurant with my family and friends many times.

Pork Loin Chop

Pork Loin is one of my favourite cut meat, lean meat, hardly any fats and simple to prepare. However you will need to tenderise the meat. My seasoning is rather simple, soy sauce and pepper, at the end of cooking add rice wine or any wine. This will allow the meat to be juicy. 

Din Tai Fung 鼎泰豐

Din Tai Fung a Taiwanese businessman started selling steam dumpling XiaoLongBao in 1972. In 2010 the branch restaurant in Hong Kong won the One Michelin Star Award and 3 times in 2011, 2012 and 2013. Currently they have branches in Japan, United States, South Korea, Singapore, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Australia and Thailand.

Recently this restaurant open a branch in Kaohsiung Hanshin Arena Shopping Plaza. One the first day it was flooded with customers so decided to head there during weekday. We were there around 4pm expecting there so be lesser crowd but we still have to wait for half an hour. 

Joy's House Warming

Recently our friend Joy had her parent's house renovated in Wandan, Pintung and she cordially  invited us for their house warming lunch. These were the scrumptious dishes waiting for us to fill our soul.... Thank you Joy, it has been an experience.   

Jianhaoji Smelly Tofu King 江豪記臭豆腐王

OH MY GOD!!! Simply the best. Finally found our best smelly tofu in Kaohsiung. We have been trying many places in Kaohsiung City and this place is simply GOOD!!

Types of Fishes

Identifying fishes in Mandarin has been a problem for me so when we were at Carrefour, we came across the fish section, had the urge to take photo of the fishes in both Mandarin and English names. So here it is.

So far we tried grilled Saba fish and it's rather tasty, today we bought Aji, Tli Apia and salted Mackerel. 

Compare the fishes price in wet market, we found Carrefour pricing are much better and there are more choices.

豆油肉 Soy Sauce Pork Belly

Made my grandma's recipe called Dark Soy Sauce Pork Belly 豆油肉(台語) for my partner using our Sanyo Travel Cooker. 

高雄牛老大 Kaohsiung NiuLaoDa

I saw on TV introducing this beef hotpot and was eager to head down to Tainan to try it until our friends told us there is a similar joint in Kaohsiung. Since then we have been back couple of times. We even brought our friends from Singapore to try it out and they too love it. 

These are not Australian, New Zealand or American beef, it is Tiawan home feed brown cow. The meat are all freshly cut on the day and you can even eat it raw. The way to eat this is to dip the beef in the hot soup for 3 seconds and you you have a pinkish tender and almost melting beef in your mouth.  

801高雄市前金區自強二路18號
07-281-9196
Open 11am ~ 2pm / 5pm ~ 3am
Close on Monday
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Window Farming - Wicking Method

It been 7 months since I started Window Farming, previously I had used the self watering air lift method using an air pump. At the same time, I did an experiment with wicking method and found it was much better compared to the previous. Now I have decided to use this method for Window Farming.

Below there are photos how I made these self wicking pots. With this method I only have to top up the water in the pots every 7 to 10 days. 

The bottles I had used were 2lts soda bottles straight shape. The Wick was a cotton rope, those use in wrapping dumplings. This can be purchased from any stationary shop, you can use cloth or a material from the mob so long it is able to absorb water. 

Materials Needed

• Soda Bottle
• Netting or Kitchen Towel
• Wick
• Aquarium Air Hose
• Air Hose Connector 
• Calendar 

冬粉王 DongFen King

Open since 1970, have to say it is rather tasty. The meat chunk are big slice, our favourite is the mix organ and meat noodle. Do not forget to order a preserved radish, rather chewy and flavoured.

No. 168號, Qīxián 3rd Road, Yancheng District
Kaohsiung City, Taiwan 803
07-551-4349
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