Shrimp Paste {Belacan}

This is the more popular brand of belacan.

Fish Sauce

One of the preferred brand that is available here.

Shortening

I use either of these when shortening is requested for in a recipe.

Chefade ingredients : Fractionated animal fat

Kremelta is a vegetable shortening
Ingredients : Hardened coconut oil, soya bean lecithin

Dry Noodle

Ingredients : flour, egg, milk, salt, water etc.

I quite like this noodle especially for soup based noodle dishes, as I find they don't go overly soft and soggy. It is a good substitute when fresh mee is not available.

Mui Choy {Salted Mustard}

Chilli Paste

Ingredients : Fresh Chilli (95%), Salt, Preservatives


ETA 16/8/08
I now make my own fresh chilli paste since fresh chilli is more readily available at a reasonable price.

Shao Hsing Hua Tiao Chew ~ Chinese Cooking Wine

Tung Fun ~ Vermicelli

Black Peppercorn, All Spice and Cloves

Pot steamer

The ocassional steamed dish can be difficult for many households as they often do not have the traditional steamer.

I rummaged through my cupboards to see what I could use if I wanted to do some steaming using existing kitchen utensils.

The following set up could easily be used to steam homemade chee cheong fun.

This cast iron pot is 10" in diameter with a height of 4½".

Use a bowl, small pot or any available container to elevate the food tray - high enough so that the boiling water will not get into the food during the steaming process.

The food tray is put on top of the bowl.

The food tray is just one of my baking trays which fitted perfectly into the pot.

Food is covered during the steaming process.

Round Baking Tin

These are my 8" cake tins. Besides baking layered cakes, I find they are exceptionally good to use as a tray for making chee cheong fun and kway teow. The black one seems to have a better surface as the flat rice noodles seems to slide off easier than on the grey trays.

Traditional steamer

This steamer is the most common in Asia. It comes in several sections. The bottom part is for water only. Some come with several steaming trays where a lot of food can be cooked at once. My steamer (as pictured) only comes with 1 steaming tray.

Wheat Starch ~ Tung Meen Fun

Tung meen fun is wheat starch and must not be mistaken with wheat flour. It is a non-gluten flour.

Surimi Crab Flavoured Stick

I prefer to use the crab sticks as against the surimi salad mix. The crab sticks are frozen individually wheras the salad mix pack is frozen in a block form making it difficult if you only need a few pieces to make a quick salad.





Frozen and individually wrapped in plastics

Gula Melaka

Best Foods Mayonnaise

This is our preferred brand of mayo especially when making our seafood salad.

Coconut milk / cream

I prefer this brand of coconut milk as it is thicker.

The ingredients are coconut cream and stabiliser with no added water.

Kicap Manis ~ Sweet Soy Sauce

ABC is the preferred brand for kicap manis.