Teochew Cooking Corner

This simple meal is very delicious and easy to make, which is the reason why this dish is one of the most popular choices for home meal dish. Ingredients: 3 eggs 1 tablespoon of Fish Sauce 2 tablespoons of Light Soy Sauce A pinch of White Pepper 3 teaspoons of Shaoxing Wine 200 grams of chives, chopped into small pieces 3-4 prawns, cut into small pieces Prawn marinate ingredients: 2 teaspoons of Shaoxing Wine 2 teaspoons of Light Soy Sauce A pinch of White Pepper 1. Put the cut prawn pieces into the bowl. Add Shaoxing wine, light soy sauce, and white pepper then mix well together with the cut prawn pieces. Chill in the refrigerator and marinate for 15-20 minutes. 2. Crack the eggs into the bowl. Add fish sauce, light soy sauce, white pepper, Shaoxing wine. Whisk the eggs together with the seasonings well until bubbly. Add chopped chives into the egg mixture. 3. Heat the wok, put 1 tablespoon of oil and cook the prawns until the prawns omit fragrant smell. Set a...

This Stir Fried Green Beans could be eaten with either porridge or rice. I knew this dish for the fist time when I was looking for a recipe with green beans. Then I found this Stir Fried Green Beans with olives, I was lucky to find this recipe because there are plenty of green beans in where I live. When I cooked this dish, I fell in love with it especially with the preserved Chinese olives that complimented this dish. This dish is originated from Chaozhou/Teochew (潮州) region of China. Olives are abundant at Chaozhou/Teochew, olives are either eaten raw or with porridge or used as one of the cooking ingredients. Preserved Olives is one of the olive products from Chaozhou/Teochew. Preserved olives has savory yet slightly sweet with a hint of licorice flavour and slightly bitter. The original recipe uses ground pork, but I use chopped prawns instead. Ingredients: 300 grams of green beans, cut into 2.5 cm length 1 tablespoon of fish sauce 1 tablespoon of Shaoxing...

This simple and delicious dish is perfect for either as a party dish or a home meal dish. I knew this dish for the first time from my father who ever cooked this dish for lunch. Ingredients: 1 Thread Fin Fish 2 slices of ginger/ 2 stalks of crushed lemongrass 1 tomato (sliced thinly) 2-3 stalks of coriander (could use parsley as substitute for coriander) Salt 1 red chili (sliced) 1. Wash the fish cleanly, then let fish dry 2. Cut the stomach part of the fish and remove the internal stomach organ parts of the fish to remove the fishy smell. You could ask the fishmonger to cut and remove the internal stomach organ parts of the fish to get rid the fishy smell if you couldn't do it by your own. Then wash the stomach part of the fish cleanly with water and let the stomach part of fish dry. 3. Make two horizontal cuts/ criss-cross cuts on both sides of the fish body (frontside of the fish body and backside of the fish body). You could ask the fishmonger to do make the h...