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Monday’s Simple Dinner – Brown Rice & Potato Vegetable aka Sayur Manis Soup With Century Eggs

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Posted by Vedis on January 11, 2010 – 8:42 pm
Filed under Chinese Dishes, Chinese Soup Recipes, Malaysian Dishes, Today's Simple Dinner

It’s working Monday again! How’s your Monday? Do you suffer from Monday blue? I don’t because I work for myself. ;-)

Today’s breakfast was Mee Suah Soup with Egg and Broccoli and tonight’s dinner was Potato Vegetable (‘Sayur Manis’ or She Zai Choi in Cantonese) Soup with Century Eggs.

Hubby asked why there wasn’t any Steamed Lap Cheong tonight. I said there were century eggs in the soup tonight, so it’s kind of a heavy meal if I still added Chinese sausage.

Sayur Manis aka She Zai Choi Soup
Photo Credit for She Zai Choi Soup

Ingredients:

500g potato vegetable aka ’sayur mani’, remove leaves from the stems
Handful dried anchovies or ‘ikan bilis’
5 white mushrooms
2 century eggs
1 egg
1 clove garlic
1 liter water
Oyster sauce
Soy sauce

Instructions:

1. Place the water, dried anchovies and garlic into the rice cooker. Bring to boil.

2. Add in white mushrooms, century eggs and egg. Then, potato vegetable leaves.

3. Add oyster sauce or/and soy sauce to your taste.

Speaking of century egg, it’s also known as thousand-year egg, hundred-year egg or Pi Dan in Mandarin or Pei Dan in Cantonese. It is a type of preserved egg that is a Chinese delicacy.

I love it very much, especially when it’s in the soup or porridge. Oh, I love it best when it’s eaten with pickled ginger!

If you like cheese, then you may like the smell of century egg that is pungent.

Today’s Simple Breakfast – Mee Suah aka Chinese Flour Vermicelli Soup With Egg And Broccoli

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Posted by Vedis on January 11, 2010 – 9:07 am
Filed under Chinese Dishes, Chinese Soup Recipes, Malaysian Dishes, Today's Simple Breakfast

This morning, hubby woke up real early, at 5a.m. As a result, I had to do the same. Hubby could have eaten a few slices of bread and drunk a cup of cereal for breakfast, but I thought it would be better to cook him a bowl of Mee Suah Soup with Egg and Broccoli.

Hubby suggested he eat bread and I go on sleeping. But, I insisted on cooking him a bowl of Mee Suah soup. I know he’s quite packed with classes today, so it’s better for him to eat something hot and yummy.

I insisted cooking something hot for hubby simply because of my personal experience. Recalling those days in Cameron Highlands when my weekends were packed with four 2-hour classes, eating something hot and yummy was comforting.

I hated eating bread and biscuits that were dry and cold at that time because they brought out the negative emotions of pity, sadness, or loneliness.

Owing to those negative emotions, I would feel even terrible and started asking why I had to teach so many classes. And then, I would become more depressed.

Given a choice, I wouldn’t want to go back to those days where there were four 2-hour classes on weekend anymore. No, thanks. I enjoy my online work more than giving tuition now.

Mee Suah aka Chinese Flour Vermicelli Soup
Photo Credit for Mee Suah Soup

Okay, let’s come back to this morning’s breakfast! Mee Suah Soup with Egg and Broccoli.

Mee Suah is called Mian Xian in Mandarin. I like Mee Suah aka Chinese Flour Vermicelli, which is made from rice flour and comes in dried forms because of its smooth silky texture.

I don’t often eat Mee Suah, but each time I eat, it reminds me of the time when I was sick during my teenage years. My grandma used to cook me a bowl of Mee Suah soup whenever I was sick and had no appetite.

Ingredients:

100g or 2 bundles of Mee Suah, rinsed in cold water to remove the starch
Handful of dried anchovies or ‘ikan bilis’
1/2 broccoli
1 egg
1 bulb ginger, sliced thinly
1 clove garlic
500ml hot water
Oyster sauce
Soy sauce

Instructions:

1. Place the hot water, dried anchovies, garlic and ginger into the rice cooker. Bring it to boil.

2. Add in broccoli and egg. Then, the Mee Suah.