All about food day..

It's been such a productive day- well productive food day that is. Not only did I go into town this morning to do some food shopping- well all I wanted was a coffee cake from M&S but you can never come out of there without some of this that and the other! Ended up in Oriental Emporium, coming out with some chinese veg, some mochi, some hor fun and some beansrpouts!! Paid FXB butchers on Moore Street a visit and bought some pork ribs for steamed black bean ribs for tomorrow night's dinner, and some pork chops for the following night! And then to the beautiful food of M&S..

What excites my tastebuds is those chocolate and vanilla whoopie pies!! Will give you my verdict on them!!

After all the food shopping I came home to make some dumplings !! Was a bit tired and lazy after all the preparations that I didn't, or wasn't arsed taking any pictures !! Will take pics of them when they're cooked :) They are sitting nicely in the freezer waiting to be frozen and eaten when there's no other food in the house :D


So what's for dinner tonight.. Well I was going to make some beef hor fun, but since I didn't buy any beef, think we'll just go for the vegetarian option, soya hor fun with beansprouts accompanied by a soya chicken leg !! Well not exactly soya it turns out... I had bought a bottle of Lee Kum Kee Soya Sauce for chicken, or so I thought... While making it today, still thinking it was soya sauce for chicken, I looked closely at the bottle and say the word 'water' on the label.. Now having paid feck all attention in chinese school, 'water' was one of the first words I probably learned as a kid, and that happened to be on the bottle.. Now where did 'see yau' have a 'water' word in it !!??!! Then I realised I had bought 'low shui' sauce.. sigh sigh.. To this minute I still don't know the word for 'see yau', might have to have a look at the bottles I have in the press.. :( So it's 'low shui' chicken leg tonight !!

1) Boil a pot of water first.

2) Add in the chicken legs when the water is boiled.

3) After a few minutes turn off the heat and bring the pot over to the sink and rinse with cold water for 5 minutes (put the chicken legs in a bowl of ice water if you have ice in the freezer and leave there for 5-10 minutes)

This is what I used.. N.B. IT IS NOT SOYA SAUCE FOR CHICKEN :P

4) Follow instructions on the bottle as to how much water you have!! I had no idea to what 'cc' was so I just added a bottle and half of water to it and some rock sugar !! Measurements not exact, all done according to my liking... :P

5) Bring to the boil and then put on lowest heat possible, cover and cook for 20 minutes. Leave in the pot for a few hours to let the flavours seep into the chicken..

And the result...

Will be in the next post- my chicken is still in the pot!!