120. CNY 2025 - Year of the Snake - With Recipes

CNY 2025

Year of the Snake

below: 1st Yu Sheng this year

with joey, edna, roger, Wed, 15 Jan 2025 (also had steamboat!)

CNY Cooking

24/1        Fri            - work 9am-6pm, steamboat at night

25/1        Sat            - steamboat lunch and dinner

                                - made sambal belacan, sioh rempah, marinated chicken

26/1        Sun           - cook sioh, combined & tested bakwan kepiting ingredients

27/1        Mon         - cook bakwan kepiting, her pio fish maw soup, buah keluak

28/1        Tues         - (can't cook!) work 11am-6pm >> REUNION DINNER!

28/1 Tues - REUNION x3 dishes

29/1 Wed  - CNY Day1

30/1 Thurs      - CNY Day2

31/1 Friday     - CNY Day3 - working 9-6pm

1/2         Sat        - CNY Day4 - steamboat ?

9/2.                         - CNY Day ? - Yu Sheng

CNY DISHES - prepare and cook

1. Sambal Belacan (REUNION)

2. Ayam Sioh (REUNION)

3. Bakwan Kepiting (REUNION)

4. Ayam Buah Keluak (CNY Day1 - leftover from 2024)

5. Fishball Fish Maw soup with Cabbage (CNY Day1)

6. Leeks with Prawns (CNY Day1/2)

7. Teochew Steamed Pomfret with Kiam Chye (CNY Day1)

8. Collagen Stock Gravy with 

Abalone, Sea Cucumber, Scallops, Mushrooms (CNY Day1)
- king oyster, dried chinese shitake mushrooms, straw mushrooms

9. Ngo Hiang (CNY Day2 - made few days earlier and frozen)

10. Lap Cheong (CNY Day2)

11. Yu Sheng (CNY Day2)

12. Steamboat (CNY Day3/4 >> 24 Jan - 25 Jan 2025)

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RECIPES 

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Sambal Belacan x2 spice levels

- penang belacan - toasted

- malacca belacan (get some from tekka)

- red and green chilli / chillipadi

- limau purut

- small limes 

- big limes

- lime rind from 1 large lime

Ayam Sioh

- chicken - drumstick 1.5kg & thigh 1.5kg

- roasted ketumbar seeds - 5-8 tbsp - grounded into powder

- roasted ketumbar powder - 1-2 tbsp

- onions x8 medium

- garlic x4 cloves

- gula melaka - 3 pieces

- sugar x3-4 tbsp

- assam paste x2 tbsp

- tau cheo x2-3 tbsp

- white pepper powder x2-3 tbsp

Bakwan Kepiting (150 meatballs!)

- bamboo shoots x3-4 packets

- minced pork 1kg

- crabmeat
- fresh prawns - some chopped & some minced

- frozen minced prawns

- sotong paste

- water chestnut

- cornflour

Cabbage Fishball Fish Maw Soup

- fishballs x20

- fish dumplings / her keow

- fish maw

- chinese cabbage

- round cabbage

- tipoh 

Ayam Buah Keluak

- leftover gravy (last year)

- 1kg chicken drumstick/thigh

- seasoning - salt, sugar, assam

- (buy buah keluak from Mr Seah before he retires)

buah keluak rempah

- 20 dried chilli

- 10 fresh chilli

- 2” belacan - dry roasted

- 6 buah keras

- 20 shallots

- 4 garlic

- 2 big/medium onions

- 1” fresh turmeric

- 4 slices galangal

- 4 serai/lemongrass

- 3-4 assam

- 4 assam skin

Teochew Steamed Pomfret

- pomfret x2

- kiam chye

- sng bueh

- tomatoes

- ginger

- boiled lard pieces

- chilli

- wang sui/coriander

Yu Sheng 

(without raw fish)

- Set - pickle and seasoning

- jellyfish

- extra biscuits

- white radish

- carrots

- cucumbers

- mangoes

- pomelo 

- (or mandarin orange)

- lime

- coriander

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24-25 January 2025

Steamboat

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steamboat at home! three meals Lol

- iberico pork collar shabu shabu (chef brand)

- pork ball

- beef ball

- sotong ball

- prawn and fish roe ball

- beancurd roll with fish paste

- spinach 

- tang or 

- broccoli 

- eggs

- black seaweed

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25 January 2025

Sambal Belacan

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belacan fried rice

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25-26 January 2025

Ayam Sioh 

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(more to come)

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26 January 2025

chicken feet soup 

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26-27 January 2025

Bakwan Kepiting

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26 Jan 2025 Sun

defrosting. marinating and combining ingredients

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27 January 2025

Buah Keluak (leftovers Lol)

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27 January 2025

Cabbage Fishball Fishmaw Soup

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below: after a few days, soup is too thick and salty
i don't like it this way :/

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28 January 2025 CNY Eve

Reunion Dinner

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29 January 2025 CNY Day 1

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-Teochew Steamed Pomfret

-Abalone, Sea Cucumber, Mushrooms

-Leeks with Prawns

-Stir fried Hokkaido Scallops

-Ngo Hiang

-Crabmeat Omelette

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30 Jan 2025

My birthday is also CNY Day2

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29 Jan 2025

reunion dinner

and celebrated ah liang's and my birthdays

28 Jan 2025

eating at tracy's

cooking cny food for 2-3 days in a row

so no time to prepare dinner 

(and fridge is too full anyways)

we had steamboat!

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9 February 2025

Yu Sheng at home

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