30 Chinese Dinners
By I. Ngeow
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About this ebook
Do you love Chinese food but don't have time?
30 CHINESE DINNERS is the easy-to-follow no-nonsense quick guide to Chinese homecooking.
Author Ivy Ngeow's tried and tested, illustrated little cookbook includes modern, classic and her family's dishes which you won't find in any restaurants. Inside you'll learn how to make healthy and traditional meals. Impress family and friends. If you enjoy eating well, these low salt, zero MSG and no deep-frying recipes are tastier and better than anything from a restaurant or takeaway.
With a foreword by renowned Malaysian food journalist and travel writer, Helen Oon, this helpful mini book is packed with hot tips, cheats and top DIY marinades and sauces to help you save time and money.
- 10-30 minute preparation anyone can do
- Perfect for families and the time-poor
- Hot tips and cheats
- Photos of every dish
"Ivy imparts her local knowledge on the art of cooking Malaysian Chinese dishes she learned from her grandmothers." ~ Helen Oon
DISCOVER THE SECRETS OF REAL CHINESE FOOD TODAY.
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30 Chinese Dinners - I. Ngeow
30 Chinese Dinners
Healthy Easy homemade meals
Ivy Ngeow
Leopard Print LondonISBN 978-1-91584-04-7
Copyright © 2020 by Ivy Ngeow
All rights reserved.
No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.
Written and illustrated by Ivy Ngeow, except where photo credit is given.
For my mother and my late grandmothers
Contents
Foreword
Introduction
Before we begin
1. Special Fried Rice
2. Egg fried rice
3. Char Siew Roast Pork
4. Chicken, red pepper and broccoli in oyster sauce
5. Grilled salmon, vegetables and soba noodles
6. Steamed egg and mince (Hakka egg)
7. Lemon Chicken
8. Monk’s Vegetables (Buddha’s Delight)
9. My mum’s eggplant (brinjal) with shrimp
10. Shrimp or Prawn bee hoon (rice vermicelli)
11. Vegan Bee Hoon
12. My mum’s Kung Pao Chi Ting (Kung Po Chicken)
13. Vegan Chow Mein
14. Woh Tip (Pot Stickers/ Pan Stickers)
15. Just plain regular light and crispy tofu
16. My mum’s Marmite Chicken
17. Hong Kong Chinese Chives Omelette
18. Shrimp and Chinese cabbage tagliatelle
19. Singapore Prawn Noodle Soup (Hei Mee)
20. Hakka claypot mince pork and tofu
21. Chicken Chow Mein
22. Three mushroom tofu
23. Aubergine (eggplant) Thai red curry and cauliflower rice
24. My daughter’s 5-ingredient Chicken in 10 minutes
25. My granny’s minced pork with noodles (Hakka mein)
26. Chicken macaroni soup (slow cooker)
27. Sweet and Sour Meatballs (or Fish)
28. Steamed Seabass in 15 minutes
29. Crispy Roast duck with pancakes
30. Blanched pak choy
31. Beef hor fun (flat rice noodles)
32. 5-ingredient shrimp and green beans in 10 minutes
33. Red bean soup (dessert)
34. How to make perfect rice
35. Top 3 essential DIY marinades, sauces & pastes
36. List of recipes
If you enjoyed this book
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Also by Ivy Ngeow
Want more?
List of photo credits
Foreword
Ivy Ngeow is a multi-talented architect whose skill stretches beyond designs of buildings. With creativity hard-wired in her DNA, she is an accomplished author of three novels and short stories, a musician, fashionista, artist, keep-fit guru and cook. A devoted mother to her two children, she creates many dishes to cater for her family.
If you are trying to find recipes to cook at home, help is at hand with Ivy’s handy cookbook 30 Chinese Dinners with easy homemade family meal recipes readily available from supermarkets along with explanation of each dish.
Ivy Ngeow hails from Malaysia where food is a national preoccupation. With a population of largely immigrants from the four corners of the world, Malaysian food and drinks can aptly be described as an Asian melting-pot. Each migratory population from China, India, Middle East and Europe along with the indigenous populace contribute to the gastronomic culture of Malaysia today. Against this background, Ivy imparts her local knowledge on the art of cooking Malaysian Chinese dishes she learned from her grandmothers growing up in Malaysia.
So, let the culinary adventure begin with Ivy Ngeow’s cookbook 30 Chinese Dinners and get cooking.
Helen Oon
About Helen Oon
Helen Oon is a Malaysian-born travel writer and amateur cook based in the United Kingdom. With over thirty years of experience in the travel industry, she became a professional travel writer in 1994 writing freelance for magazines, newspapers and online travel websites. She has written six travel guides to Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong for New Holland Publishers Ltd (UK). Her travel blog, My Faces and Places ( https://myfacesandplaces.co.uk) features her travel journeys around the world. One of her passions is cooking which she finds therapeutic and social-enhancing.
Introduction
- and a bit about me -
I wrote this book because I don’t like cooking. I know! Right? You cannot believe you are reading this. It’s true. I like made up, adapted easy meals. This book is intended for both Chinese and non-Chinese cooks at all levels of cooking skills. The objective is that everyone can have a go at making a homemade Chinese meal. It avoids wasting food, money and time. It’s actually quicker to throw a meal together than to order a takeout or a takeaway.
The idea for this book came about after my Instagram photos of healthy dinners and meals I make for my family became highly popular. Friends and followers have asked me for recipes. I don’t use any recipes as I know these meals by heart and they are made from the heart. All I know is that