Fish Soup

Ingredients
200g sliced batang fish fillet
some fish bone
1 tomato cut into wedges
Tofu cut into cubes(optional)
Local lettuce (optional)
spring onion chopped(optional)
Parsley chopped (optional)

Seasoning
2 tsp onion oil
500ml water
2 tbsp fish sauce/1 1/2 tsp salt
1 tbsp chinese wine
pepper

Marinade
1 tsp salt
1 tsp corn flour
Sprinkle of pepper

Method
1. Marinade fish slices, leave aside.

2. When the water boil add in the fish bone. Turn to medium fire and boil the bone for 10min.

3. Remove the bone, add in onion oil.

4. Add tomato and when the water boils add in the fish slices.

5. Gently stir so that the slices do not stick together.

6. When the fish is 3/4 cooked, add in the fish sauce, chinese wine and sprinkle of pepper.

7. Let the water boil for 2 mins then switch off flame. Add in spring onion.

8.Serve hot with rice or pour on bowl of rice to make it into teochew type fish porridge.

Chicken Feet & Peanut Soup

Ingredients (Serves 4)

10 chicken feet

6 red dates with seeds removed

400g peanuts

2L water

Salt

Method

1. Boil water in a earthen pot/claypot.
2. Add red dates and peanuts.
3. Bring to a boil then simmer for 1 hour.
4. Bring the water to a boil and add the chicken feet, when the water boils, turn down to flame to low.
5. Cook for another 1 hour, add salt to taste and the soup is ready to be served.

Vegetarian Bak Kut Teh

Bak Kut Teh or Pork Rib Tea （肉骨茶） is a soup that is a local delicacy. It is said that this soup originate from the creation of poor coolies in Southeast Asia. They are very poor and whenever able will gather whatever herbs they could get hold of and make into soup together with pork rib. The herbal soup is delicious and is said to boost their constitution. There are many version of pork rib tea, herbal type and the teochew more peppery version. But here I will introduce the herbal version but vegetarian style. If you want you could substitute the bean items with pork ribs.

Ingredients

3 sticks of Tau Kee ( Bean Stick) soaked for half hour

1 can Button Mushrooms

Other Vegetarian ingredients like tau pok, mock meat (optional)

Soup Base

1/2 piece shu di (chinese herb)

1 slice danggui (chinese herb)

1 stalk of dang sheng (chinese herb)

1 piece of bei qi/huang qi(chinese herb)

1/2 stick of cinnamon

1 star anise

1 honey date

1 tsp of white peppercorn

1 tbsp of black sauce

1 tbsp soya sauce to taste

4 Cloves garlic (optional)

Method

1. Boil 800 ml of water, add in the ingredients for soup base and bring to a boil, then switch to small fire for 40 minutes.

2. Add in the tau kee and cook for another half hour, then add in the button mushrooms and soya sauce to taste, bring to a boil.

3. Switch off the fire and serve the soup hot with rice.

Note: 1)You can add in 2 cloves of garlic into the soup base if you want but garlic will not be added to strict vegan dish .
2) If want to use pork ribs instead, add the pork ribs into the soup base when it boils and cook at low fire for 45 minutes.