Come lunar 7 month, we eat the food after the spirit god ate

Every year we pray to the spirit gods and after they have eaten we ate. But there people who have yin-yang visions. They saw the spirit god eating and they are turned off.

You can also buy ready made

There are many sauces, stocks, and seasoning on the supermarket shelves. You don't have to know to cook to serve tasty meals to your friends. All have something in common, artificial enhancement to make it taste very good!!!

Respecting ourselves in public

Many people want respect to an extend they make anybody who served them small, belittled the service people,demanding, rude for just one reason, just want to look better then others.Respect is something people gave to us,we don't respect others for nothing and other cannot respect us for no reason. Service people provide the service are professional they follow the rule of the trade,they make us "look like a king" does not mean they belittled themselves .Very simple no matter how wealthy a person is that is a personnel matter respect is given, by people who think you reserve it, not because you are rich or having a high paid job.

Food for your plant (fertizer)

If YOU HAVE DOG/S IN YOU HOUSE...AND YOU HAVE PLANTS WE TALK ABOUT FOOD FOR THE PLANTS. FOOD FOR THE PLANTS NEED A FEW MONTHS OF " COOKING" JUST KIDDING I MEAN PREPARATION. WHEN YOUR DOG/S POO POO COLLECT IT. USE A AIR TIGHT BIG CONTAINER,PUT IT AWAY FROM PEOPLE IN A CORNER SOMEWHERE IN OR OUT THE HOUSE. BOTTOM OF CONTAINER SPREAD A LAYER OF WOOD SHAVING. PICK THE DOG POO AND COLLECT THEM EVERYDAY, SPREAD WOOD SHAVING TO KEEP THE POO DRY. FILL THE CONTAINER TO HALF AND LET IT STAND FOR ABOUT SIX MONTH. USE A SAME TYPE OF CONTAINER AND BEGIN A NEW COLLECTION. CAN NOW USE THE AGED POO POO TO FERTIZER YOU PLANTS, FERTIZER YOUR PLANTS EVERY 3 MONTHS SOME PLANTS ONLY NEED VERY LITTLE FOOD.

Communication make the world goes round

Don't work too hard, if it is yours it is yours if not it never mend to be. Most people think that the boss can notice you when you work very hard. This is true everybody knows that you work hard. They know how you work.Are you organised, can you take and give instruction, do you know to organise the your staff, looking after their welfare, understand the company objectives.Company must make money . Your family is the most important, the job can be history, but family forever.

Food for your dogs, cats, fishes

If you keep dogs, cats, fishes and you can cook all their food together, In a microware container put a little water, put in the fish and cook. When the fish is cooked remove all the bones, don't add salt, give the fish to the fishes, your cats, and dogs. Do not throw away the water add it to the cats and dogs food.Big ocean fish!!1

To prepare a chinese stock for chinese kitchen

A standard receipe to prepare a stock in the chinese kitchen. Water, pork bones, rock sugar, soy beans. Cook until the stock is tasty.

Service staff can punish the Guest!!!

Some people like to make themselves notice, can even cook and serve better then the staff. Service staff after years of being talked down,abused by guest soon found a getback solution instead of get angry,upset. Some of the goodies are saliva, urine being the most satifyiing get back tools. Maids also apply the same seasoning.

Roast Chicken

Marinate the chicken with mixed herbs and light soy sauce overnight in the chiller. Roast in oven 210C until cooked.

French Onion Soup ( Just like the soup you get in family rest.

Onion Soup just like the soup you get in coffee houses.
Put enough water in a pot and add chicken booster, (maggi chicken seasoning), slice onion and cook in the microwave oven until soft, the saute'in a pan until brown, pour the stock into the slice onions.Cook until the onion thicken a little.Scoop the soup in a bowl. Put a piece of toast, grated cheese and grill in the oven, using top grill heat.Do not add any more seasoning.

Cream of chicken soup( taste like the canned soup)

To make a soup that taste like the canned soup. Enough water to make the soup, add chicken booster, bring to the boil, in a contain mix flour to water and whisk, pour into the boiling water whisking until the consistency reach a cream soup, add cooking cream and small dice chicken meat.Do not add any other seasoning.

Chinese opera and hawkers food in the 50s

In the 50s there was no such thing as hygiene, people don't know about hygiene. A push cart stall selling kuai tiew soup. There was no tap water in the stall. The hawker had to carry the water from a standing tap 5mins away. Stall was busy, the water used to wash the plate was pour into stock pot, thinking that no one was looking and he was right people were not worried about that.

How about Australian chef when they get upset

There were lots and lots of orders,a guest was very demanding, the chef was upset by the demand, annoyed the throw the fillet steak on the floor, step on it and threw it on the grill to cook, customers alway right? true, yes it is true but stupid it's the chef
decision whether the food taste extra good.

BBQ for the family and friends

Holiday time, invite your friends and family to a BBQ.
Meat suitable for BBQ:Weight about 50grms per piece. Tomato catchup,chillies sauce,bottle bbq sauce, lea and perrin, garram masala, curry powder, Tumeric powder,lemon sauce, oyster sauce, kickkoman sauce, terrikaki sauce. Sambal chillies sauce,Combine 2or3 type sauce for 1 type of meat. For fish use a banana leaf or foil and coated with sambal chillies,Kangkong with sambal you can also cook in banana leaf.
Bean sprouts with sambal chillies in banana leaf.You can also BBQ Sweet potato, Bananas
do not peel the bananas. Crab BBQ whole, insert a knife or chop stick to kill the crab, do not break open the crab, the juice will escape and the crabs will be dried. Flame must be red hot.

Pan-fried scotch fillet served with onion sauce.

Buy a scotch fillet ready cutted. One piece per person.Put some flour in a plate, seasoned the steak, place it on the plate and coat both sides of the steak with flour. Shake off access flour. In a sauce pan (I used sauce pan and not frying pan because the oil will not make your kitchen oily) heat up the pan, add a little olive oil,in medium low heat, place the steak in the pan, slice an onion and place the onion to pan fry with the steak. Turn the steak over when is half way during the cooking also stir the onion to stir fried the onion. Throw a little flour in the onion and stir. When the steak is cooked to your done liking remove it, add a white or red wine(enough to make the sauce) to the pan(can also use stock or water) the sauce will thickened by itself, add little cooking cream (if you have it) stir, season to taste. Put the steak back into the sauce cover the steak with sauce cook until the steak is hot. Beautiful mum or my cooking. Enjoy it.

Chee Chong Fun

In the 50s, the old cantonese lady sold chee chong fun.She carried the two basket like stall, put on the ground, and sat on a small stool,with a pair of scissors she cutted the chee chong fun. I saw her cutting her nails as i was about to buy from her, but made a u turn when I saw her cutting the nail with the scissors.

Chock,( Congree)

In the 50s,20cents or 10cents for a bowl of cuttle fish congee, came across a big piece
of cuttle, my teeth could not chew. I took it out from my mouth and it was a bandage.

Old Toa Payoh Hospital

In the 90s there was a Toa Payoh Hospital.Behind the hospital there was a forest. There
were plenty of mynals (birds). There were no wire mess to prevent the birds from flying
into the hospital kitchen. The ladies cooks prepared the bee hoon, the birds came in to
to take their breakfast, at the same time dropped some goodies into the bee hoon,a lady cook saw the dropping in the been hoon, used her hand, picked the dropping and the
the bee hoon, a handful and throw into the bin.

Good Morning .... Roti Prata..... For You

Talking about Prata for breakfast.
Prata cook from India, went to work, before working he visited the toilet, after that he
washed his bum bum came out and went to prepare his prata. He thinks it is clean since
he wash his hand with water when washing his bum.But what about soap?

Simple lunch take to office food

Most offices has a microwave oven.Put all food in small plastic bags.Cut veg,meat, noodle/cooked rice/been hoon/cooked spaghatti, in plastic bags do put in different bag.
Put all the bags in the microwave and cook. A container fill 1/2 with water bring to the boil. Remove the all the food and pour into the boiling water, bring to the boil again and add seasoning to taste. Not messy!!! no long Q...Cheers.

Hawker touching their foot and nose digging

In Singapore many hawker(food preparation people) don't wear proper foot wear and socks.
During the non peak period you may sometime see hawker touching, or rubbing their foot,digging their nose or wearing a dirty old glove on one hand not taking it out when going to the toilet.

How to prepare tasty food without MSG

Chef cooked food taste good, Mum food does not taste as good
The food must be prepared using tasty stock
You can prepare tasty stock if you have bones veg trimmings and cook until your stock is tasty, takes a long time, remove the bones and trimmings and reduce the stock, a concentrated stock is tasty!!!Cheers enjoy your meals.

Prepare tasty chinese food

There is a way to prepare tasty chinese food
Pour 1/2 laddler oil into a very hot wok
Coat the surface with oil and pour the oil back into the oil container
Put the wok back on the flame and add a little add chopped shallots,chopped garlic
when the galic turn a little brown add oyster sauce and put it your meat or veg and stir fried, season to taste!!! enjoy your cooking.
Use this method for all stir-fried food.

Finger foods

Finger food is food you pick up using your fingers to eat.
Should be bite sizes
Not messy, your fingers don't need cleaning after the first bite
Not too dry it will turn the guests off and not wet either
Arrange neatly so that when the food is picked up it will not fall apart
It must not be too spicy, and burn the tongue
The type of people, young or mixed old and young, chinese indian malay or aliens guests
Prepare the food that will suit their taste
Your guests will love you because of the food you prepared
Enjoy being a host!!! CHEERS!!!

Taste

Taste, most people expect the food they paid for to taste good.
The truth is what you paid is what you get.
You pay alot of money, the time and the food cost will be the product of the food.
But if the food is cheap most people will only sugar, or MSG or food booster to make the food taste good. But the food you get at a 5 stars eating place is prepared with no
booster to improve the favour, just bone, veggies, herbs. So what you pay is what you get, no such thing as expensive food, but good food is expensive to cook.

To Prepare food, your guest said was good.

You walked out after dinner, you can hear people saying the food were so, so. Why were
the food so, so only. Most people go for taste, and we call it the local taste buds. Those cooks that are not sensitive to the guests taste bud shouldn't cooked. Simple I know what the local liked and disliked, and I just do that, Good on me, I knew my job.

How much meat must we take a day?

We need food to live a normal life. 100grams of meat is enough. Eat more vegetables at least 2 types, bigger serving of vegetables, and small serve of starch ( rice, potatoes, pasta) And 2 types of fruits.

Meat and fish in the frezer ( organised you freezer)

Working woman may be happier if there is enough raw meat and fishes in the freezer. Cut
the meat to suit your method of cooking. Buy 5 kg for each meat item packed into individual portion and store neatly in tray or plastic container. Good to have a freezer, ice cream freezer at home. Have beef, pork, chicken, fish, seafood, packed and thaw in the micro wave oven when needed.

3 courses dinner

Seafood chowder
Prepare a fish stock, if you don't have bone use ikan bilis, or ikan bilis booster seasoning. Bring to the boil, cool the stock a little. Mix water with flour and pass through a sieve. Whisk the stock and pour the flour and water mixture until you get the consistency of the soup. Add tomato chunks and potatoes chunks. Before serve add cream and diced seafood;-cooked prawn, seafood stick, diced cooked fish.



Boneless chicken marinated with yoghurt and herbs

Marinate boneless chicken with yoghurt,olive oil,soy sauce, herbs, and allow it to sit in the chiller over night. Cook the chicken in the foil bag.


OR


Fish fillet seasoned with chinese wine, herbs

Olive oil,lemon juice, and spring onion. Cook the fish in a foil folded bag.


Fruits salad

Fresh fruits in season marinated in their own juice.


Tea or coffee.

And

A packet or glass of drink.

Use Natural seasoning

Meat favour can be enhanced by plants product, such as herbs, vegetables, roots vegetables and of course a very good stock. Meat taste better if for example you pan fry with onion, or mushroom, or chillies. Later add wine or stock and a thickening to form a sauce. Sometimes you create your own dish, sometime you don't. In fact all great dishes were created by someone.

Cooking home meal.

Home cooking is cooking international food.
Fish is best bake, stream, or grill. Remove the scales, wash the fish and marinate the fish with pan salt, or light soy sauce, lemon juice and olive oil. You will find that your fish will not be dry when cooked. For grilling, I love to grill my fish in low temp.160C. The meat become dry if the temperature is high. For streaming the flame must be high. If the fish is very fresh streaming is prefer. Pan frying,your kitchen will be oily, and not healthy to consume. No point poaching unless you want to serve it with a sauce.

Creating our dish.

No such thing as you cannot use chinese ingredients to cook western food, can cook fussion food. As long as you like it, just do it. example tofu cook with vegetables any vegetables cut into any size but
keep it to the same size add tomato sauce and tomato puree, a sauce for spaghetti is ok, provided you don't over seasoned.

What to cook today?

Everyday we asked the same questions.
Lets not be hard on ourself. Make it simple, different meat every time, every meal. Just rotate it or not the same for a few days. Not the same type of fish, different method of cooking it. Rotate the vegetables so you get all the nutrients your body need. Remember used only olive oil. Various method of cooking meat, roasting, grilling, pan frying, stewing or even streaming or boiling. Don't used too much msg or booster seasoning, just use herbs....... Cheers.

Vegetable cooking

Kindly use a microwave container for cooking. Pour little water in the container put the cut vegetable in the container to cook. For western food use olive oil, butter or margarine. In a hot pan add the microwave cooked vegetables, toss the vegetables. Serve the vegetables.

For local cooking, Used cooking oil.In a hot wok add cooking oil and oyster add the microwave cooked vegetable and stir fry the vegetables. Serve the vegetables.

Swiss Potatoes

Peeled potatoes cut in thin strips, onion cut thin strips.Fry onion until soft and brown, add potatoes and fry on one side until cooked, then turn over and fry until cooked, break in some eggs and sprinkle cheese cook until brown.

Left over.... Can be a rice salad

You have left over streamed white rice, vegetables, potatoes, meat, or fish. Cut into salad bite size.
Mixed them together add a little mayonnaise and yoghurt, keep them in the chiller and eat them as salad. The name of the dish:- Rice salad.

Garden salad

Soak lettuce in ice water. Break into larger then bite size. Drain the water. Carrots cut into thin strips (julienne) in fact cut all vegetables into julienne, Those vegetables that you cannot cut julienne cut into smaller then bite size. Vegetables, you can eat raw:- mushroom, bean spouts, brocolli, califlower, onion, leeks, celery, cabbage, tomato, spring onion, chives, spinach, garlic. etc. cut and toss them. Sprinkle lemon juice and olive oil with pan salt on the salad..

Fresh fruits salad

Any fruits can do. Cut to bite size. 3 or more types of fruits. Sweeten with sugar, then add orange
juice, lemon juice. Marinate for couple of hours.

Money well spend

We have to spend, spend, and spend. After all the money we spent were well spent. We all thought were spent well. Then again, it is easy to pay because we paid by credit cards, didn't we. Paying by installments, we are always poor, but not to worries, as long as we can manage it is fine.
Don't forget to save for retirement otherwise we have to work to a very old age..... Think about it....cheers.... don't worry be happy.... The republic need elderly man to work..... Be wise have some cash for reserve................. cheers.

My new year's eve menu ( Home cooking is great)

Hainanese chicken and rice. COST: chicken, garlic, ginger, pandan leaves $8/-(1 large chicken)
Scallops with saute spinach. COST: $10/_( 1 packet)
Mussel pan fried with garlic. COST: 1 box; $8/-
Saute' 3 types of mushroom $6/-
Kong pow frog legs $15/-(1 packet)
Mixed Vegetables $5/-
Thai chillies prawn $8/- ( 500g prawn brought 1 week before LNY)
Clear vegetables soup $3/-
total:$63/-
Portion: Enough for 12 persons
Cost: $5.25 per person
Time taken to prepare 3 hours.

With a little planing and 2 hours shopping time, all you have to know is the basic cooking method
and you and your family of 12 need not spend more then $200 in the coffee shop or more money then 200. The portion size we prepare ourselves is huge, and is a faction of the cost. Saving money is good, you don't have to work many hours O.T. to provide your family a decent meal.
Knowing cooking will help you, because you save money eating at home. Cheerios, Have a Great year new year......Make lots of progress, and money, all the best will come....Cheerios.

Let it be

To most, to be serious about, is not worth it. What is important is to be happy. No amount of money can change it, it only comes with it in the mind that I can do better than that. After all...all my life, trying to do better, and sure can do better, getting the kick in the bum sure is not anyone wrong doing, the reason is sure grow old, when you hit 50. Old shit, get the hell of here, we have a lot a alliens workers, no cpf payments. Look like we locals are good for nothins, Maybe, U yeah, U there can be a taxi driver, oh no you are not good enough, maybe to become a guard, yes perhaps, as a guard, you can close one eye and shut the other and you must learn to keep you big mouth sealed don't complain too much. Just need you to show up. A head count is all the bosses want. Silence is golden. Silence is olden you flicking old shit just keep your mouth zipped and remember don't shit all over the place. Joke is right, to those out there who do not know that every person will grow old, maybe they don't since these people may die soon, but please....... think about it, give the people who are lucky to grow old a better go, give them a sit in the bus, or mrt, or making a living. Be respectful, Any way enjoy cooking your own meals......... nothing better than a good tucker. Cheerios Happy New Year................

Stew ( easy n not messy)

Stew

Always marinate the meat ( I prefer overnight.)
Dust the meat and vegetables with enough flour (the flour will thicken the sauce. Heat a roasting tray add oil on base of the tray. Put the meat and vegetables in the oven to brown the meat. When the meat is brown add hot stock to cover the meat and vegetables, add herbs and enough salt stir the meat and into the oven until the meat is tender. If you love fine dinning remove the meat and vegetables and pass the sauce through a sieve. Garnish the stew with red and green vegetables.

Banana Leaf { cooking using banana leaf}

Cooking with banana leaf
select piece of banana leaf without holes or and not broken.
Burn the leaf on top the gas flames.
Brush the leaf with cooking oil.
Place whatever you want to cook in the central of the leaf,put not watery but thick sauce on the seasoned meat,or seasoned fish or vegetables( washed and dried) and fold two opposite sides in and then the other opposite sides. Place the folded side down,in a wok or BBQ when half cooked turn it over. To check whether it is cooked insert a knife or fork in. If you can truss in easily it is cooked.
Suit chillies dishes.

I do not like to have a oily kitchen, but I loved to cook.

Pan-fried food.
Heat the pan to hot, add olive oil, add seasoned meats and cover the saute' pan with a lid, and turn the heat to low. You want to turn the meat over, turn off the flames and wait for a while, the stream settled down, remove the lid and turn the meat over, cover the lid and turn the flame up, until the flames sealed the meat,the turn the flames to low and continue cooking until it is cooked.
Don't remove the lid wait until the stream settled down, then you open the lid.


Oven cooking
Seasoned the meat, take a foil make a boat shape cup the side of the meat, in this way there is no drippings from the meat.


Cooking vegetables.
Stream the vegetables, don't have to put water, cover the lid of micro-container, cook in a micro-wave oven, when cooked remove the vegetables and use the juice from the vegetables to make a sauce for the vegetables.
Heat up a sauce pan, (don't use a saute' pan) add oil add oysters sauce for chinese food, stir the oysters sauce in hot oil and add the stream vegetable stir and fried the vegetables only for a short time and remove from pan. Don' t use a wok because the kitchen get oily. Use the juice from the vegetables add a little water bring it to the boil, mixed cornflour and water stir, pour into vegetables stock to thicken the sauce. Pour the sauce over the vegetables during service.

Life is a bitch

Please remember that we will get our karma, good or bad karma. God is watching us.
Those who are cash rich, donate money and the sin will be erased, yes wishful thinking.
Don't worry if you make a confession, God will forgive your sin, sure, no worries, god is forgiving.
I am worried, if i did enough bad and if they send me 18 level down to hell and no way of leaving hell. Then, no worries, stay in hell, good for you mate.
Nowadays people complain about everything, the higher your education, the more dirts get into your brains...... before we do could do something nasty,please think about the karma, or think, maybe I allow others to think I am nothing but just a smart bum. Indeed I maybe stupid, just pretend to know everything. Complain, is one of the 5 Cs most locals are good in.

I prepared a very good chicken stock with plenty of chicken bones and vegetable, using the chicken stock I cooked a cream of chicken soup, the same standard I prepared in Hotel 5 stars dinning. A lady guest complained to the manager and said The worst chicken soup I take in my life. I told the manager I gave her another better cream of chicken soup. I took the maggi chicken seasoning put the season in water and made a cream of chicken soup. The lady guest asked the manager was the soup done by another cook, and he said yes. She said the other cook did not know how to cook. This soup is very good..... Life is a bitch ....anyway... don't try too hard.....let it be. Tomorrow will be another day.

Life is a bitch

They said there is no future working as a waiter.
Not really, they have their way. Yes indeed their method work each time and every time, by pushing their mistakes to some one who is not even aware of it. By providing no effects service to the guests, and before the guests complain they put in a story to convince the manager, who usually went in hiding if he knows someone is going to make a lot of noises. Well he is safe now.

Spinach and shitakes stirfried with oyster sauce

Spinach and shitake mushrooms stir fried with oyster sauce.
Wash and cut spinach, wash and slice mushroom.
Place mushroom in a bowl, do not add water and cook in the micro wave oven . Heat a wok add cooking oil and oyster sauce and stir the oyster sauce in hot oil. Throw in the spinach stir fried a few seconds and add the micro wave cooked mushroom plus the juice from the mushroom. Stir and mix the vegetables, removed and serve straight away.

Pumpkin soup

Pumpkin soup
Prepare a tasty stock.
Peel and cut the pumpkin into cubes.
Cook until the pumpkin cubes become small soft, take a whisk and break the cubes into puree.
Add cream and salt to taste. Cold weather soup ( winter soup).

So... no worries.... sure can

Planning
You know that if you don't get your mise en place done, you can be history.
A la carte menu, the mise en place is routine.
Set menu is there for a month or 2 months or more.
Just prepare the meats season them 1 day ahead.
The vegetables one or two days before hand, simple just make sure the staffs get into the routine.
Sauces, for a la carte make enough for 2 days, and put the rest in the freezer
Set menu just prepare on the same day. Doing so will cut down Aliens O. T. to zero.
Functions mise en place, you allow 3 days, ordering and you have 2 days to get the mise en place done. Write on the paper all the mise en place you have to do, tick it when is done and store the items according to your order of work. Doing so you cannot miss out certain job. Getting yourself organized, you will not panic , and the going is smooth............ Cheers.

Life is a bitch

Talk about working life, a chef's life, a cook's life.
Check it out....... they said the customer is the best chef..... you are not wrong....
Talk is cheap...... hay you there, you, smart Alex.... come and prove that you know more or just a big mouth......... Sorry life is a bitch....... you know a bitch gets .....we talk about life is a bitch later.... remember to check it out. Cheers... don't be offended. Talk is cheap. Stop complaining and learn to cook for your family and yourself, maybe your friends...