been craving for lotus root soup for quite some time now and when i saw some frozen ones being sold at the chinese groceries store, i decided to cook some this weekend.
my lunch for today…
it’s kinda oily because i boiled it with some chicken wings (with skin). chicken wings are really cheap here, coz most of the people here like to buy skinned chicken meat. so since they can’t remove the skin of the wings, most people won’t wanna buy the wings. normally i get about 4 wings for only dhs 2 (rm 1.70).
other than chicken wings, i also threw in some wolfberries (kei zhi) and red dates. i also bought a small pack of mini chinese dried scallops or conpoy from the chinese groceries store. so i threw some of that in too…
mini conpoy for dhs 25 (rm 20.80)
actually i threw in all the ingredients into my phillips rice cooker yesterday night, set the timer for it to cook for 3 hours, finishing at 1pm and then keep warm thereafter. ah, i simply love my rice cooker, which i bought when i moved into my one bedroom apartment back in kl last year. it has artificial intelligence! just pray that it don’t decide to take over my apartment one day! lol!
anyway, i’d love to throw in some peanuts in the soup, but i discovered the pack of peanuts i bought from lulu’s hypermarket some weeks ago was infested with worms! yucks! lucky thing i stopped to scrutinize it, rather than throwing them in blindy!
still, the soup was delish! and i threw in some “transparent noodles” when i’m ready to eat, for a more filling lunch. i don’t know what’s the actual name of that noodles – you can see it in the 1st picture above. it’s broad like kue-teow, but will become transparent when cooked. i think it’s made from yam or something. the menu at xiaowei yang steamboat labeled it as “mongolian noodles”, but sweet sheila said that’s not their real name. she mentioned something else, but i totally forgot.
i had 2 big bowls of this soup (1 with the yam noodles and one without), and there’s still one more bowl in the pot for later. now i’m thinking of cooking some porridge with dried scallops for dinner. ah… satisfying weekend meal! :D
4 comments:
Eh? We cannot bring those dried food stuff via luggage kah? Pricey hor, some of the stuffs. I am surprised you can get century eggs there!
I must have salted duck eggs for porridge.. otherwise, tak sah!
can bring in the luggage, but last time i didn't think of bringing... i only brought over some bak-kua, coz chinese new year mah! :D
is it vermicelli noodle? tang hoon?
i hate that conpoy.. (dried scallop)?
no ler, not vermicelli or tang hoon... i tak pernah try this kind of noodles before i came here. but why hate conpoy lar?!
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