Hei Zho or Prawn Rolls 虾枣_2016 CNY dish_金猴报春

I have so long did not have this Hei Zho 虾枣 which is one of the Hokkien common dish serve during CNY. I remember my mother did cook this dish when i was young, sometime she also made crab version called as Ching Zho 蟹枣. But don't know since when she has stopped making this dish during CNY but instead she made the Hokkien meat balls which is nice too.

Hokkien Bak Chang (rice dumplings) 福建肉粽

I have been delaying to post this classic Hokkien Bak Chang since last year. I keep delaying due to this post is too lengthy which has too many pictures and long recipe. As I don't want to just put up a simple recipe but to share a detail step-by-step recipe with photos which later can benefit to my younger family members and also for you who wish to learn the skill of how to wrap the dumpling  ^_^.
Hokkien Bak Chang is difference from other dialect's rice dumpling, where Hokkien Bak Chang requires 3 main criteria, Colour 色 -  the glutinous rice got to be looked dark. Aroma 香 - big amount of shallots, Hae Bi (dried shrimps) and Chinese five spices powder are added as to give the distinct aroma . Taste 味 - every ingredients must be pre-cooked and well seasonings, to bring out the great flavour of the dumpling.

Lychee Pork 荔枝肉

When my daughter enjoying this dish, she keep saying this is tooooo yummy and non-stop eating..Maybe due to she likes lychee a lot ^_^. Anyway, I have to agreed with her, this dish is full of flavours, sweet, sour and savoury, something like sweet and sour pork. And love the juicy lychee hide inside the pork balls. Lychee is in season now, it is cheap and fresh, quickly to get some to try this out.
Lychee pork is a famous traditional Hokkien dish, especially Fu Zhou peoples like to cook it. A thin slice of pork to wrap with fresh lychee, to reassemble like a lychee shape ( you can use canned lychee but prefer to use fresh lychee). Sometime, people also replace lychee with pineapple or water chestnut.

Sweet and Sour Pork Ribs 紅燒排骨

 

Recently I just upgraded the private TV channels (Astro) to include few new channels. And i found one interesting channel mainly use Hokkien dialect (HHD). I am not interest on those drama but I love to watch their food show that more sharing on Hokkien cuisines. I learnt this sweet and sour pork ribs from a show that shared by a owner of a restaurant mainly serve Foochow cuisines. I know how to cook sweet and sour pork, but this recipe I tried has very nice and crispy deep fried pork ribs. Even the dish has cooled down, the deep fried pork ribs still taste a bit crispy.

Buddha Jumps Over The Wall 佛跳牆~~欢喜过马年

Last year I challenge myself to make Poon Choi ( Big Bowl Feast )  盆菜 during CNY, and this year I did this Buddha Jumps Over The Wall 佛跳牆. My version is easy and simple version, total only 8 ingredients. I omitted shark fin as my husband already "Finished with fins" ^_^ and we not really fancy with abalones. Why this dish called Buddha Jumps Over The Wall? Because of the good smell, it made Buddha break out of this meditation and jump over the wall of the restaurant next door which served good wine-jug stew, read more here.

Braised Stewed Pork Ribs Meehoon (rice vermicelli) 红焼排骨米粉

My mom used to cook this version of traditional Hokkien braised stewed pork ribs meehoon (rice vermicelli)  when we were young. I love this simple and great taste of braised meehoon, by simply pour a canned of stewed pork ribs 红焼排骨 or pork belly (much oily than use pork ribs) into meehoon, don't need to add much seasonings.