6pax RI bros home steamboat dinner

did a steamboat dinner for my RI bros on 27.11.2017. ^^

wanted to let them try the shenzhen style 沙茶酱捞阳春面 served with 猪杂汤…decided to just do it steamboat style..no seafood so more of 陆上捞田里捞haha!😂

For my OPS buddies maybe will do 海底捞with seafood..not everyone like pig organs la 😂😎

6pax RI bros home steamboat dinner 

i had a good spread of meat & vegetables.

steamboat items 

shitake mushrooms

there’s shitake, abalone mushrooms, shimeji & enoki mushrooms.

steamboat items 

also had couple cooked dishes. here i had saliva chicken 口水鸡.

iberico & normal pork collar 

there was iberico shabu shabu pork, and also a cheap thinly sliced pork collar (like 25% price).

iberico pork was excellent…surprisingly the pork collar was very good, considering the price.

pig kidney 

pig liver & spleen 

i had quite a bit of organs – kidney, liver, spleen, heart

minced pork balls 

& i made some meatballs myself…

cheese tofu & egg tofu 

both the egg tofu & cheese tofu were nice addition, in small amount. you don’t need too much of those.

lettuce

spinach 

i had lettuce & spinach.

阳春面 

the 阳春面 tossed in 沙茶酱 & taken with pig organ soup was what i wanted my RI bros to try out at first..it then became a steamboat.

making saliva chicken 口水鸡

saliva chicken 口水鸡 

& i made saliva chicken 口水鸡. first poached 1/2 chicken then added the mala sauce with fish sauce mix.

saliva chicken 口水鸡 

it was a nice dish, though i had done better recently & my friend CL also commented.

pig’s tongue

pig’s tongue tossed with 沙茶酱 

had some pig’s tongue also which i tossed with the  沙茶酱. nice!

pig organ soup 

i made 6 bowls individual soup portions.

needn’t have bothered. additional work & it was better in any case for each to do himself while taking the steamboat.

low temp braised belly pork

braised belly pork 阳春面with沙茶酱

& i braised the belly pork to recreate the braised belly pork 阳春面with沙茶酱 shenzhen style dish. c/w with the shenzhen dish below!

braised belly pork noodles with 沙茶酱 with pig organs soup @ 深圳东贝爱面科学馆

the braised belly pork noodles with 沙茶酱  with pig organs soup @ 深圳东贝爱面科学馆 was really good! 

沙茶酱 with chopped scallions & celery 

for steamboat i added another sauce – goma sauce, which was a very good dip.

braised belly pork 阳春面with沙茶酱

the braised belly pork 阳春面with沙茶酱 shenzhen style was very good, especially the sauce.

i had practiced this on my OPS bro WM few days back. ^^

the steamboat – is like any steamboat a pretty nice communal dining. the organs were fresh & the meat were nice & sweet & very good complement of vegetables & mushroom, so a quite complete steamboat.

the singel bowl preparation of pig organ soup &  阳春面 was a bit of tedious work & not really necessary, so i did not do that when my OPS buddies came subsequently for seafood 海底捞hotpot dinner.

c.h.e.f andy

2 steamed 鲈鱼

sis & bil came for lunch & dinner today on 24.11.2017. ^^

沙茶酱阳春面

I made some 沙茶酱捞阳春面 for lunch, same as what i did for my OPS bro WM yesterday.

2 steamed 鲈鱼 + fried spinach

for dinner i made 清蒸鲈鱼..& the leftover pig organs soup. ^^

recently in shanghai, we were treated to 鲥鱼 quite a few times…it was like 1/2 fish for RMB360, like S$75…

& there it was like a must eat dish…i quite like it, though they added sugar & it was a bit sweet in my opinion…but to pay S$75 for 1/2  鲥鱼, not quite my cup of tea after a first must try…

2 鲈鱼 from sheng shiong for S$3.90

2 鲈鱼 from sheng shiong for S$3.90

i bought 2 鲈鱼from sheng shiong $3.90..

this of course is a cheap fish. i wanted to use this to experiment making the 鲥鱼 dish, also a river fish with many tiny bones, and sweet.

2 steamed 鲈鱼

i googled online recipe for  鲥鱼…

the only distinctive part of the preparation i think was steaming the fish separately & leaving out the broth…

this of course quite a common method just that normally i don’t do that for my other steam fish preparation.

this cheap 鲈鱼 being quite fishy…it makes sense to do that…

i steamed for 8mins (about 600g+ for 2 鲈鱼)

 

for the sauce, i used my usual 2-3tbsp light soy sauce, 2tbsp olive oil & 2tbsp mirin…i had sliced ginger & uncut chilli padi which i fried first in the olive oil. can also add chopped garlic. then added the other light soy sauce & mirin. off fire & added the celery for garnishing.

then poured the hot sauce over the steamed 鲈鱼 and arranged the ginger pieces & the celery garnishing.

2 steamed 鲈鱼

this preparation in my view very much approximates 鲥鱼…

sweet, tender, lots of bones like鲥鱼but no sugar added..quite excellent taste for very cheap fish👍

pig organs soup

pig organs soup

we had the usual fried spinach. and the leftover pig organ soup with kidney, liver, pork balls & sliced pork.

quite an excellent dinner for 3pax, haha!

c.h.e.f andy

沙茶酱捞阳春面with pig organ soup

after our very fun OPS bros HK/Shenzhen trip 10-14.9.2017, i had wanted to try out the wonderful 沙茶酱捞阳春面with pig organ soup WW (WT’s brother working/living in Shenzhen) brought us to eat at out first stop in SZ. ^^

this time i broiught back 3 bottles of 沙茶酱 from 田子坊 street stalls in shanghai, so my OPS bro WM dutifully came by to be the first guinea pig on 23.11.2017. 🙂

belly pork noodles

the braised belly pork noodles with 沙茶酱  with pig organs soup @ 深圳东贝爱面科学馆 was really good! 

沙茶酱捞阳春面shenzhen style

沙茶酱捞阳春面with pig organ soup

it shouldn’t be difficult to make. pig organ soup quite standard. i got kidney, liver, heart, spleen, sliced pork, and mined pork balls. i had tasty chicken stock this time but anchovies stock will also do.

braised belly pork 卤腩肉

i made some braised pork also.

excellent texture & very nice indeed with the 沙茶酱, nicer than it looks in the photo above la!

沙茶酱捞阳春面shenzhen style

& the 阳春面 went very well with 沙茶酱

沙茶酱捞阳春面shenzhen style

quite perfect really & almost same as the Shenzhen noodles we had.

WM said on FB later – Good standard. Very closed to the Shenzhen original i must say. I enjoyed again no doubt.

pig organ soup

my pig organ soup was just as sweet & tasty but a bit mirky, not 清。

subsequently i shabu ie blanched the organs separately & added the soup, to get a nice clear soup appearance.

沙茶酱with scallions & celery

& i made chopped scallions & celery to add to the 沙茶酱.

very nice lunch indeed, reminiscing our breakfast at Shenzhen.

MSW at ah seng durians

MSW at ah seng durians

after lunch, WM bought MSW at ah seng in ghim moh.

this time really creamy & sweet, one slightly bitter, much better than the early MSW we had couple weeks back.

MSW at ah seng durians

MSW at ah seng durians

MSW at ah seng durians

a wonderful durian moment after a good lunch.

ah seng durians

not much queue today. so WM went to packet some more MSW to bring back.

c.h.e.f andy