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It feels rather unusual. After lots of feasting, mum and I have decided on a diet!
A diet feels like... emptiness.
Having a company to diet is a necessity, especially someone very close to. Still get to laugh about and eat the same food, plus being there to support and motivate each other to go on.

Leading to the most simplest cooking at home.
It feels very uneasy as there is not much to do in the kitchen, where creativity is being bounded. Yet we know that there are endless possibilities of blending flavours together.


There are different things which mum cooks and I never knew what it was called. Google gave the answers most of the time and I think this is it, wild leek bulbs. In Chinese, it is called Kiu Tau (qiao tou/??) - what mum told me, and like every other time I would ask, "in English."

[Correction: it's called Allium Chinense, apparently there is no English name for Kiu Tau.
Thankyou, Wendy for correcting me]

It is just a leek we find in our market place. It tastes just like lovely sweet large onions, and I suppose they cook the same way too. Really sweet and crunchy at the bottom and the top was a little lesser than chives, I would say more of spring onions.

Pan-Fried Egg Tofu with Kiu Tau

600g of kiu tau, chopped
4 cloves garlic, chopped

1 tube japanese egg tofu, cut into thick slices
cooking oil

sauce:
1 Tbsp oyster sauce
2 tsp light soy sauce
1 tsp sugar
1/2 cup of water

thickening:
corn starch dissolved in water

Method:
In a frying pan, heat up enough oil and pan fry slices of japanese egg tofu on both sides until golden brown. Set aside.

In a wok, heat up oil, saute garlic until fragrant. Add in kiu tau and stir fry to mix with garlic. Add in sauce ingredients. Simmer until the bottom of the leeks start to turn translucent.
Pour in thickening mixture and cook for another 1-2mins.

Place on top of pan-fried tofu. Serve with rice.
The leeks cooks down into less than half the portion just like any other veg. It's my first time pan frying a very delicate tofu and it was pretty much a challenge to me. Also, adding some thinly sliced lean meat would probably make it real good too!
Thinking of these baby steps in learning how to cook makes me happy.


Look at that nicely steamed fish! I'm going to miss mum's cooking...






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