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Belly Pork with Sweet Peas & Baby Corn – 12th Teban Gardens Community Breakfast on 27May2016

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double cooked belly pork 回锅肉with sweet peas & baby corn

double cooked belly pork 回锅肉with sweet peas & baby corn

this my 12th friday breakfast community meal at teban gardens community service centre (CSC).

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.

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not sure what i was going to cook for teban gardens community meal today on 27.5.2016.

last evening about 8pm, went out to do some errands. dropped by sheng shiong.

bought 4 packets of sweet peas & 4 packets of baby corn. & bought 1.2kg of frozen skinless pork belly.

at about 12am-

  • scalded the belly to remove scum
  • prepared a simple tasty marinade (4tbsp shaoxing wine, 2 tbsp mirin, 1 tbsp flat salt, 1 tbsp heap sugar)
  • fry 1.5 cinnamon stick, 4 star anise, 2 tsp chopped garlic in little oil in wok to bring out the flavours, then empty marinade into wok to heat a bit to help dissolve sugar
  • after that placed cleaned pork with marinade in over dish iin 95degC oven for 4.5hrs.
double cooked belly pork 回锅肉with sweet peas & baby corn

double cooked belly pork 回锅肉with sweet peas & baby corn

in the morning, i fried the sweet peas with sliced ginger, cut chilli padi & 2 tsp chopped garlic, then added baby corn, added 2tbsp oyster sauce, some fish sauce, tested texture & taste & set aside.

then i cut the tender still firm texture belly pork & fried in some butter over high heat, then added back the sweet peas & baby corn.

& that’s it!

sweet peas & baby corns always very sweet & tasty, & the belly pork was flavourful very tender yet firm to the bite & not falling apart. the residents & also the centre staff who tried all liked it. 🙂

c.h.e.f andy

Average Yong Tau Fu @ Bedok North Street 1 Food Centre on 23Apr2016

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yong tau fu

yong tau fu

after the bathesda newgate learning lab community meal which i cooked 1 dish every alternate saturday (hong kong steamed sutchi fillet today), 4 of us volunteers went to have our lunch at bedok north food centre on 23.4.2016. ^^

yong tau fu

yong tau fu

i went to get some stuff from the S$1 shop next to bedok north food centre.

we had teochew muay here 2 saturdays ago after volunteering at newgate learning lab community meal.

my friends queued & got me a yong tau fu.

it was quite average hawker stall yong tau fu.

yong tau fu noodles

yong tau fu noodles

no comparison with the excellent yong tau fu & noodles at u hakka niang tou fu circuit road.

the yong tau fu at u hakka were very tasty & the noodles were excellent.

yong tau fu

yong tau fu

this one here was ok, the standard fare at any hawker yong tau fu stall, not quite the standard of the ghim moh hakka yong tau fu either.

i heard about but yet to try the midnight yong tau fu stall at bukit merah view, anyway i am hardly a fan of the dish.

c.h.e.f andy

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Yong Tau Fu

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216 Bedok North Street 1
Bedok North Street 1 Market & Food Centre
Singapore 460216

1st Jiakfreelicious Community Lunch Dish for Newgate Learning Hub on 27Feb2016

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community lunch at newgate learning hub

community lunch at newgate learning hub

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

thus far i have done 6, once every week.

community lunch at newgate learning hub

community lunch at newgate learning hub

2 of my close friends have been helping out at newgate learning hub by bathesda community at bedok which provide free saturday lunch for the old folks in the community.

so i arranged to do alternate weeks, a friday at teban gardens breakfast & a saturday at newgate.

community lunch at newgate learning hub

community lunch at newgate learning hub

the weekly lunch, started by another RI friend, was funded and managed by a few volunteers including himself & D, the person in charge. 🙂

quite similar to teban gardens CSC, they already provide bee hoon & noodles, and the RI friend who started, his father does a pulut hitam dish for them almost every week. ^^

so i had just to add a dish.

stir-fried chicken with ginger & spring onions 姜葱鸡

stir-fried chicken with ginger & spring onions 姜葱鸡

to start off for the first time, i decided to do the stir-fried chicken with ginger & spring onions 姜葱鸡. 🙂

stir-fried chicken with ginger & spring onions 姜葱鸡

stir-fried chicken with ginger & spring onions 姜葱鸡

the main difference in logistic is that here they don’t have tables, the folks sit on chairs & they portion & serve the food-

  1. which means i need to make dishes that provide for more than 80 pieces
  2. so for today, i debone 2 chickens, cut & counted to make sure i have more than 80 pieces
  3. i still plan to ask my helper to do some dishes eg the bean sauce pork cubes & the cloud fungus chicken, but it means i have to prepare/cut the chicken & pork myself for her to cook to ensure that there are >80 pieces to be served.
stir-fried chicken with ginger & spring onions 姜葱鸡

stir-fried chicken with ginger & spring onions 姜葱鸡

after i deboned the chicken, i made a tasty stock of chicken bones, carrots & radish (happens to have it in the fridge) in crockpot overnight.

the cut chicken were marinated with 2 tbsp fish sauce, 2 tbsp light soy sauce & mixed with 1 tbsp corn starch for 1 -2 hrs.

i finely julienned 2-3cm of ginger, cut 1/2 large yellow onions, finely cut white part of spring onions, 1 cut chilli padi, and threw in some basil & fried in a tbsp butter + some oil. then added some minced garlic.

having a nice aroma & fragrance, i then added the cut chicken & fried.

then i added 2 cups of the chicken stock, 1tbsp oyster sauce & 1 tbsp corn starch, brought to boil & covered for 10mins (chicken pieces already deboned so cooked for shorter time).

then i removed the chicken pieces & left only the wings & reduced.

i off the fire & added 2/3 of the cut spring onions & mixed.

stir-fried chicken with ginger & spring onions 姜葱鸡

stir-fried chicken with ginger & spring onions 姜葱鸡

then i transferred to the aluminium tray & added the remaining spring onions.

stir-fried chicken with ginger & spring onions 姜葱鸡

stir-fried chicken with ginger & spring onions 姜葱鸡

i tasted. sauce, mildly starchy was very tasty, the chicken were tender & sweet. ^^

beehon mee with chicken

bee hoon mee with chicken

at newgate learning hub, we all helped to serve the bee hoon mee & chicken.

beehon mee with chicken

bee hoon mee with chicken

there were 80 plates & all were taken up.

community lunch at newgate learning hub

community lunch at newgate learning hub

there were more than a dozen volunteers including ourselves.

they had a sermon before the lunch at 1pm, & they have people to sit down with the folks for 15mins before lunch starts to talk & understand more about the folks.

this part is different from teban gardens CSC.

some NTUC canned food to take home

some NTUC canned food to take home

they also collected canned food courtesy of NTUC to give out free to the folks. very good! 4 times a month can mean fair savings for many.

c.h.e.f andy

Red Fermented Beancurd Cloud Fungus Mushroom Chicken – 4th Teban Gardens Community Meal on 5Feb2016

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red fermented beancurd cloud fungus mushroom chicken

red fermented bean curd cloud fungus mushroom chicken

my helper did a red fermented bean curd cloud fungus mushroom chicken腐乳云耳香菇鸡丁 today on 5.2.2016. ^^

this my 4th friday breakfast community meal at teban gardens community service centre (CSC).

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.

red fermented beancurd cloud fungus mushroom chicken

red fermented bean curd cloud fungus mushroom chicken

this dish was especially popular today. everyone liked it, the residents, the volunteers alike. 🙂

red fermented beancurd cloud fungus mushroom chicken

red fermented bean curd cloud fungus mushroom chicken

my helper used the softer small cloud fungus, not the large thick black fungus.

she fried the soaked fungus & chinese mushrooms with the red fermented bean curd & sliced ginger to bring out the flavours. then added the diced chicken & cooked for 30minutes.

red fermented beancurd cloud fungus mushroom chicken

red fermented beancurd cloud fungus mushroom chicken

then she steamed in the steam oven for another 45mins.

it was a simple dish to do.

there are regular attendees for this teban gardens friday community breakfast, last week there were like 100 people, this week looks a bit lesser, also i had to take leave a bit earlier, but probably it would still be over 80.

great place for the residents & older folks to gather, have a good meal & get in touch a bit.

c.h.e.f andy