Saucy Secrets
There will come a time where most food stalls here are just commercial enterprises if it is not already happening. The skills and preparation from hawkers of old are waning. This can hurt our economy as our workers will become lacklustre due to lack of quality food. Lamentations only. Food fuels a nation not forgetting those on liquid diet, the golden liquid. If you walk around the hawker stalls not quite knowing what to eat you have a problem.
If the situation is not arrested, it becomes like our baby problems and in five to ten years, it'll be like Dooms Day. To prepare ourselves, we need to do some doomsday preparation and damage control. We have to learn and practise how to prepare and cook a decent meal. Let me share with you some saucy secrets. I visited Kwong Cheong Thye at 63, Geylang Lorong 27 again after quite a while.
Whenever I eat at "dim sum" restaurants, the chilli sauce you used for dipping are probably supplied by them. Or even the dark soy sauce. The secrets of Chinese food and their chefs are in the preparation of stock, gravy, ingredients and sauces.
They are conveniently located next to the Aljunied MRT.
I notice a pub at the corner called "The Ranch".
This is to me a great chilli - Sweet and sour hot bean paste. Not just for dips but it goes extremely well with noodles.
I haven't tried this for a long time and do not know if it is still as good but last time you won't find this noodles. What you get from zhi char stalls are "yee mee" and only restaurants gave you this yee fu mian. They were the first to supply yee fu noodles.
For dim sum dips and others, this is the same as what you will get at the restaurants just like that hot bean paste type.
For braising your meats - pork or chicken, this is pretty good.
You will also find others like chicken rice chilli sauce or ginger. Ginger itself goes very well with chicken.
I found a BBQ supplier just across the street.
I tried the otah. It gets cheaper the more you buy. $1.60 for five pieces of piping hot otah.
When you get tired of eating out, all we need is a simple meal. Have some soup, some steamed "chye sim", even instant noodles are good. Just add meat if you like but it becomes really good when you have your noodles dry with the bean past chilli sauce.
Braise your meat. Both chicken or pork are good.
You can easily feed a family of four.
Dip them with the chicken rice chilli sauce.
Have them with rice or noodle.
With these, you are enhancing your doomsday preparation skills for survival. Our basic hawker fare and food scene may become zombie land in future. Get ready. I must come out with something to save the world . SOS. Save Our Singapore.
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