Young jack fruit

Normally, people take jack fruits when they are ripe.  Some how, if you never tried this before in your life time, better taste it before too old to taste!

Chop an unripe jack fruit and sliced off its skin with an extreme sharp cutting knife.  (It is best done under running water or your both hands rubbed with cooking oil before you do the job.  Or else the sticky sap from the unripe fruit will be sticky enough to glue your fingers together!!!)

After ripping off the fruit, then cut into cube forms or small pieces with the nuts embedded.  With thorough rinsing off the sap, you can heat up your wok.  (In between quick chop few slices of garlic, chillies and onions if you wish, add in archovies or prawn paste or dried prawns as your liking to stir the ingredients before adding the young jack fruit.)

Let it cook for some 20 minutes with minimum water and serve while hot.. Yummy .. sweet and tender.

*** Living in the jungle of Borneo will have heaven of food.  No worries... :)  Thanks God for that..

Stewed Duck

Marinate the whole duck with five spices powder
Fry the garlic, onions and smashed lemon grass.
Add the whole duck and cook it under medium to small fire.
1 hour 20 minutes and if the meat is tender to eat.
Let it cool and later cut up the duck and ready to serve.

Lak Cheong & Sau mai

Add mackerel meat, onion, minced pork, salt, white pepper powder, some cabbage stalks, garlic (smashed) and chopped to pieces.

Mixed well the mixtures, wrap up in the beancurd skin.  Fry the lap cheong and cut to small cubes before serving.

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If you want to make siu mai (meat dumpling), just wrap the ingredients using the flour made skin and then steam in the wok/cookware for some 20 minutes.  (Pictures from google internet)

Another way is to wrap up the ingredients using long cabbage leaves.  Cut the green leafy leaves to small sizes that can accomodate the size of a sau mai, steam and serve hot..

Sweet/sour pork ribs

1) Cut the pineapples into cubes
2) Marinate the pork ribs with corn flour for about 20 minutes before deep fry them and place them onto a big bowl.
3) Fry some garlic and onions with the pineapples.  When the pineapples are half cook, mixed the corn flour added with some water, stir well with the pineapples, add in salt to taste.

Once the ingredients are well cooked, pour over to the pork ribs and serve hot.

Sweet & sour fish

1) Grill the fish first and place on a nice plate.
2) Cut 3-4 tomatoes (small size), some cucumbers, green pepper and cook for about 15 minutes
     add with salt mixed with  corn flour.

*Pour the whole mixture of 2) onto the plate of fish and serve hot.

Mixed Soup

1) Sea cucumber cut to small pieces
2) Fish lips
3) Seaweed (purple type) add in few strands
4) soak the bean curd stick for 1/2 to 40 minutes first and cut to small pieces - add into the soup (about one big bowl of water - serving about 5 persons)
5) Add corn flour and some salt (msg if you wish) and  one to two eggs beaten.
6) During the serving, add black vinegar or lime juice and some pieces of celery.

Roasted Chicken

Clean the chicken thoroughly with feathers plucked, oily fats cut off & etc
Marinate the whole chicken with salt.
Clean few tumeric leaves and place onto the tray in the oven roaster.
Roast the chicken for 35 minutes on one side and then flip over roast the other side for 20 - 25 minutes.
Cut the meat to medium cubes and ready to serve.

Angled beans fried with eggs

Chop the angled beans to small pieces
Smash and chop garlic to pieces before frying
Add in beaten eggs and fry with garlic before adding in the angled beans.

Add salt and msg (if necessary) to taste.

Soaked vegetable & anchovies

Soaked vegetables will usually turn a bit salty and sour.
It is best if fried with anchovies to add in additional taste.

Firstly wash clean the soaked vegetables and chop to small pieces.

Pour in bits of cooking oil into the wok with medium fire.
Fry a small piece of garlic,
add in the soaked vegetables
and anchovies with low medium fire.

Must constantly stir the anchovies and the vegetables or else the anchovies will not be balanced cooked, some are crispy while others are not.

It is the best dish to eat with porridge.

Something bitter

Put in few slices of pig bones
Add in sliced bitter gourds
Add in a small clove of garlic
Two small bowls of water
Boil for 20-25 minutes and serve with bits of salt to taste.

This is a very easy to prepare soup and also  very healthy for our bodies.

(Pig bones can be alternatively be replaced by anchovies.)

Poor man's food

Some one told me, he used to have this food ever since young.  His family, esp. his parents used to buy this type of "gu cai" and "beansprouts" as they were cheap in the old days.

Now, I would take this type of dish as something very healthy.  To make it taste better, I add in the "baby corns" sliced to small pieces.

Put in a bit of cooking oil, add in minced garlic
Put in the "gu cai" and beansprouts and baby corns.

Add in some salt to taste.  It is extremely nice.


(all pics will be uploaded soon.)

"Tepus" Local Bidayuh word

The Bidayuhs call it "Tepus".  I search through the net, it is a ginger family plant found in the wild.

The Tepus are sliced off its skin and then cut to small cubes.  It got a type of sap which will bring thread forms.  But dont worry, just fry the tepus with garlic, minced meat or anchovies.

It is a very tasty vegetable from the wild. No chemicals at all.  Good for health.

Colocasia stalks

Not all colocasia stalks can be eaten.  Some are used for feeding pigs.

But only this type is edible by humans as the sap are not causing lips allergy.

The colocasia stalks are peeled off its skin, cut to small pieces.

Fry a small garlic and add archovies if you wish
and put in the coloocasia stalks with medium fire to low fire.

Before serving add in bits of salt or msg as you wish but NEVER ever add in water because
the stalks contains much water.

Garlic paste

Chop garlic to pieces
Add in soya sauce
Add in vinegar.
Alternatively, use lime, or fremented red wine from rice.

This sauce can be used to dip fried chicken or fried kuih.

Yummy but do have some odours..

Gourd cooked with anchovies

Gourds come in different shapes.  Some are long and thin, some are bottle necks.  Some are oval and big and etc.
The one I chopped or cut to small pieces belong to the long and thin type.

Some how, I didnt cook it within the time frame that the seeds inside turned old but no harm I still want to cook it.

Cut the gourd to pieces.

Chop garlic to small pieces and fry with anchovies.
Put in the gourd and stir well until cooked.
Serve with some salt added.

(Our family usually do not use msg to add as taste. So it is your option.)

Chicken soup with some herbs

Chop the whole chicken or half of it to pieces.
Put in some goji berries
Some slices of ginger.
Some small pieces of ginseng tops. (at the right corner side of the picture.)  (This type of ginseng is "Pau Seng" - not a hot type)

Wild Fern with prawn paste

This type of wild fern is called "Paku Pakis" locally.  They are sold in bundles and usually the upper parts are softer and to be plucked and if the paku is big, it has to be sliced to two or more pieces.
They are picked from the wild and it does not mean any wild jungles, one can find such ferns.
This type of fern likes to inhibit on moist ground.
Of course, in my own backyard, I have planted many too as I got the roots from the other ground and propagate here. It is a very healthy type of fern and no chemicals is needed to spray on such fern.  Coupled the sap of the fern does have lots of medicinal value to our bodies.
In restaurants, it is not a cheap dish.

Set medium fire over the wok
Fried the smashed garlic and ginger  with cooking oil
Also fried the prawn paste or belacan (a small cube)
After that, put in the paku and stir well for the water from the fern to be drained out
and at the same time mix with the prawn paste which will taste so nice.

Add bits of salt and msg if necessary before serving.

Making rice dumplings

It was a tedious job but easy way to eat.

Chop the leaves, cut the both tips of the bamboo leaves, boil  them.

Fillings are - Dried mushrooms to be soaked for a few hours and cut to small pieces.
Pork, onions fried.  Add in 5 spices, salt and pepper powder. (Some times, can add in dried prawns and
nuts.)

Glutinous rice to be soaked too for some 20 minutes.  And have them fried lightly and mixed well with 5 spices powder.

When wrapping up, fill the glutinous rice and the fillings.

Boil the water added with salt.

Then put in the rice dumplings under low fire for about 40 minutes and the rice dumplings are ready for serving.

Roasted chicken

Whole chicken or half only.
Season the chicken with flavoured powder or just salt.
Over the oven roaster, put in some tumeric leaves.
(Put a stand in the oven roaster, above it put a container to collect the oil from the roasted chicken
-to avoid the oven roaster in a dirty mess.)
a tray over the container and the tumeric leaves are laid on the tray.
The chicken (meat ) is placed on the tray.

Set the oven roaster to 200C and set the timer to 40 minutes.

When the chicken is fully roasted, it turns to brown and crispy on the skin.
Cut the chicken using the Amway Scissors(kitchen scissors) and serve hot.


Note: This type of chicken is better as it is not so oily!

Yummy!

Bitter gourd cooked with eggs

Cut the bittergourd to small slices.

Beat a few eggs.
Fry the garlic and  the eggs.

Put in the thinly sliced bitter gourds.

Over the medium fire, cook the bitter gourd with the eggs for about 20 minutes

and add in a pinch of salt before serving.