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Doublecooked Belly Pork 回锅肉with Onions & Leek– 38th Teban Gardens Community Breakfast on 18Aug2017

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doublecooked belly pork 回锅肉with onions & leek

did a doublecooked belly pork 回锅肉with onions & leek  for teban gardens community breakfast this morning on 18.8.2017. ^^

this my 38th friday breakfast community meal at teban gardens community service centre.

i first started doing a community meal dish for teban gardens CSC on 8.1.2016.

the centre was started in 2002 after much effort & challenge by our RI friend who is a pastor of pasir panjang hill brethren church (pphbc) which owns & runs the CSC.

doublecooked belly pork 回锅肉with onions & leek

回锅肉 simply means returning to the wok, which means the pork has been cooked once already before cooking again in the wok. so in english, it is translated as doublecooked pork. 🙂

there are of course many such preparation in all cuisine types – western, middle eastern, indian of chinese, asian etc…in teochew cuisine for example there is 半煎煮 usually for fish like 1/2 shallow-fry, then braise…

belly pork after 5hrs in 90degC oven overnight

anyhow i was wondering what to cook for this morning. last evening went to sheng shiong at tanglin halt past 10pm & bought 4packets = 1.6kg of frozen belly pork. after defrosting, scalding & cleaning, covered with water & placed in sealed oven dishes in 90degC oven past midnight for 5hrs overnight.

this morning got up at 7am (alarm set) & prepared the meat & vegetables.

very tender, gelatinous & less oily

belly pork was very tender, gelatinous & also less oily because much oil had been rendered out in the water & discarded.

belly pork after 5hrs in 90degC oven overnight

i did not count but there should be like around 140 slices….these days teban gardens attendance on the rise (for today it might have exceeded 130pax).

onion & leek with oyster sauce

i cut 4 large red onions & 3 stalks of leek. i wanted to save my chopped garlic so browned a whole bulb of peeled garlic cloves instead to flavour the oil.

then fried the onions & garlic, added oyster sauce & covered.

added very little water, & covered to help cook the leek so that the green parts are not tough & “siap”.

tasted & vegetables were tasty on their own.

doublecooked belly pork 回锅肉with onions & leek

i then fried all the belly pork slices in the bit of garlic oil left, and added a bit oyster sauce. this one no water & no cover, just fried over medium heat, to brown & careful not burn. i tasted, pork was tender & very tasty.

then added back the vegetables & tossed. i added just a little fish sauce after tasting. it was quite perfect. then plated it.

the dish looked beautiful & tasted as much. and not really that much effort.

i have been cooking larger & larger quantity as the attendance increased. today there were like 5 or 6 people who were last in the queue & i had served out all the food. 🙂

c.h.e.f andy

S$13/kg D13 Durians @ Sin Kian Choon Jln Membina on 17Aug2017

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D13 durians

so after the delicious lunch at zai shun, we went to sin kian choon to pick up the D13 durians WT reserved earlier on 17.8.2017. ^^

MSW too expensive for us. today it was S$22/kg, at least not S$35/kg or S$38/kg madness!

we got 4 D13 durians (S$13/kg) for S$69. the first durian was huge but very few seeds like 6-7 seeds. luckily the smaller durians had quite many seeds. anyway mike “por” back some durians for us later.

WT knew the stall proprietor mike very well, so he went to vacuum pack the boxes himself as mike was busy. we came away with 1 box & another smaller box, quite enough for us 4pax. WM bought the same amount for himself also.

D13 durians 

like the last time, we went to bukit merah view food centre & ate the durians there.

the durians were ok – quite tasty, some meat a bit thin & not creamy enough, some also a bit wet, and taste not the best we had.

D13 durians on 11aug2017

in fact, looking at the photos of durians we had a week ago, after our lunch at 東北胖妈春饼店(Northeast Mom Spring Pancake) , that occasion the D13 were quite superb!

D13 durians on 11aug2017 

the taste was fabulous that time. and you can see the durians were dry “jiao jiao” in fact, and also thicker fresh & thus more creamy as well.

there are many durian sellers in singapore. sin kian choon is quite fine especially as WT knows them so well. it makes a difference!

durians are far too ex this year so i didn’t get to eat much after the excellent durians i had at the beginning of 2017. ^^

anyway for me, it is NOT a must-have but it is fun to eat together with bros & good friends.

of course the mainstay here is their fruits. today all the boxes of pakistani mangoes were sold out. i bought 3 boxes of blueberries (3 for S$6) and also 2×2 rose apples (each 2pack is S$3)..

c.h.e.f andy

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