Stir Fry Egg Toufu (清抄鸡蛋豆腐)

This is one experimental dish I try to emulate the famous Hot Plate Toufu without using hot plate, the experiment didn't go well but ended the outcome of the dish taste good which my daughter likes.  So here introduce for all the daddies to try it out.  Apology for the non presentable look of the dish due to a failure in trying to emulate the Hot Plate Toufu.

Ingredients :-
鸡蛋豆腐，猪肉，鸡蛋，青葱
Egg Toufu, Lean Pork, Egg and Spring Onion are all the ingredients.  You can try using the normal Toufu instead of the Egg Toufu.  I chose Egg Toufu because it is harder relatively and when stir fry won't smash into pieces.  All these ingredients can be purchased from supermarket.  1 roll of Egg Toufu, 1 Egg, 1 stalk of Spring Onion and 1/2 a piece of the Lean Pork will be enough to serve for 4 person.

Cooking Instructions :-
1. Cut the Egg Toufu roll into slices as shown.  Remember the Hot Plate Toufu that you ate, those Toufu also has the above shape.

2. Wash the Lean Pork and cut into small pieces.

3. Wash the stalk of Spring Onion and slice it into small portion as shown.

4. Crack the egg and blender them as shown.  Using a blender to do that ? No need, I use the tradition way of using a pair of chopstick to do it. 

5. Heat up the wok/frying pan.  When heated, put in the Lean Pork and once those are stir fried cooked, put in the Egg Toufu.  Now be careful to stir fry the Egg Toufu, they are soft so try not to use too much force if not will smash into pieces.

6. Next put in the Spring Onion and once the Spring Onion is cooked ( will be very fast ) pour in the blended Egg.  It will just take few seconds for the blended Egg to get cook and when that happens the dish is done.

7. Now scooping up the dish might be a challenge to you so be careful not to smash the Toufu to pieces.

The Egg Toufu actually tastes sweet (not sure if you use the normal Toufu will it be the same taste), the Spring Onion gives you a fresh taste and the Lean Pork gives you the crunching feeling.  Can try those out Daddies for your kids.

Stir Fry Fuzhou Fishball With Fish Cake, Tomatoes (清抄福州鱼园)

Kids usually like to eat fishball and very often these can be found in fishball noddle.  Here is another way to cook fishball.  Instead of using the plain fishball, Fuzhou fishball is used instead as the meat inside the Fuzhou fishball makes it more crunchy.

Ingredients :-
福州鱼园，鱼饼，藩茄，酱油
Fuzhou Fishball, Fish Cake, Tomatoes and Soy Sauce are just what needed for this dish.  A packet of Fuzhou Fishball comes in 10 and that roughly can serve 3 person.  A packet of Fish Cake comes in 3 pieces, we need about 1 piece will do to go with 1 packet of Fuzhou Fishball.  1 Tomatoes goes with 1 packet of Fuzhou Fishball but if you wish to put more that better as Tomatoes are very healthy food.

Cooking Instruction :-
1. Wash the Fuzhou Fishball.

2. Wash and cut the Fish Cake into slices as shown.

3. Wash and cut the tomatoes into slices, 1 tomatoes can cut into 8 portions, that size will be just nice.

4. Pour 1 to 1.5 table spoon of Light Soy Sauce into a rice bowl then fill that up with water to about 1/2 the bowl level.

5. Heat up the wok/frying span with oil and once heated, put in the Fuzhou Fishball and Fish Cake slices to stir fry.  Very quickly pour in the bowl of Light Soy Sauce and mix it well with the fishball and fish cake.

6. Next put in the Tomatoes and stir fry all for about 3 to 5 minutes will do.  Once done, get it ready to serve.

Here you go, stir fry fishball, in this case Fuzhou Fishball. This is not a difficult dish to cook :)

Steam Bean Curd With Soy Sauce (清蒸酱油豆腐)

This is one of the simplest dish with required bare minimum time to cook.  If you are running short of time and do not want to compromise on nutrition, this is the one.

Ingredients :-
豆腐，黑酱油，炸葱头
Bean Curd, Dark Soy Sauce and Fried Spring Onion are all you need to prepare this dish.  All these can be easily bought from supermarket.

Cooking Instruction :-
1. Open up the Bean Curd and place the whole Bean Curd into a plate.  1 Bean Curd could serve for 4 to 5 person share.

2. Pour in the Dark Soy Sauce.  Note Dark Soy Sauce is not as salty as the light version so don't be afraid to put too much.

3. Put some Fried Spring Onion onto the top of the Bean Curd.

4. Next step is to put the plate of Soy Sauce Bean Curd to steam.  There are couples of methods to steam it.  The traditional way is to boil some water in a wok, put a stand into the wok and then place the plate of Bean Curd on top of the stand, cover up the wok and let the steam from the boiling water to do the job.  That would probably take about 3 minutes will do.  Now, I'm going to teach you a more simple and less tedious way so that you no need to wash so many utensils at the end of the day.  Remember cooking rice with rice cooker ?  When the rice is just cooked ( the cook button if the rice cooker trigger ), steam will emit from the rice cooker, what we going to do is to use the steam to do the job.  Open up the rice cooker cover and place the plate of Bean Curd inside, on top of the cooked rice and hurried up cover back the rice cooker cover.  With that it will take about 3 to 5 minutes to get the Bean Curd steamed.  To use this method, your plate must be smaller than the rice cooker and that probably is the only limitation.  Oh, one more important thing, make sure the base of your plate is clean before putting on top of the cooked rice if not you will contaminated the rice.

5. Once done, take out and get ready to serve.

A simple and straight forwards dish that required minimum preparation and no compromise in term of nutrition.

Stir Fry TouGua With Spring Onion and Prawn (青葱豆干抄虾)

Another dish with TouGua, this time not so straight forwards as we need to deep fry the TouGua a bit but nevertheless still not a difficult dish to cook.

Ingredients :-
豆干，生葱，虾
TouGua, Spring Onion and Prawn.  Cut the TouDua into slices, not too thin the slice or too thick.  Cut the Spring Onion into small portion.  As for the Prawn, optionally whether you want to cut into smaller portions or just as a whole.  Again, all these ingredients can be easily found in supermarket.

Cooking Instruction :-

1. Wash the TouGua and then cut it into slices.  Not too thin or you will easily smashes it to pieces when fried.  Normally, 1 piece of TouGua can roughly cut into 10 slices.

2. Wash the Spring Onion, cut off the root portion and discard it then chop into smaller length.

3. Peel off the shell of the Prawns, wash them and optionally whether you want to cut into smaller portions.

4. Heat up the wok/frying pan.  This time you need to put in a little bit more oil as you need to deep fry the TouGua a bit.

5. When the wok/frying pan is hot enough, carefully put in the slices of TouGua.  Nevermind you can't put in all at the same time, just put in whatever number of slices you could into the wok/frying pan.  Let the TouGua deep fry a bit before flipping over to let the other side of the TouGua to deep fry also.  Be careful when you flip those if not you can smash them into pieces and ruin the dish.  When you can see the TouGua having that crispy look or kind of golden in color means you are done with the deep fried part, scoop out all the TouGua to a plate.  This step might take 5 to 10 minutes to get all the TouGua deep fried depending on how hot your wok/frying pan is.

6. Now the wok/frying pan is very hot, throw in the prawns and you can see them instant cook and don't forget enjoy the nice smell of the cooked prawns.

7. Next put back all the deep fried TouGua into the wok/frying pan with the prawns then add like 1/4 rice bowl of water then put in the Spring Onion.

8. The TouGua and Prawns are already cooked, the water get heated up and will cook the Spring Onion and once the Spring Onion is cooked, the dish is done.  Try using the spatular/ladle to mix the TouGua, Prawn and Spring Onion a bit before scooping out.

Ok Daddies, nevermind you smashed the TouGua into piece, practice more and next time you can do it and the TouGua remains in a slice after deep fried.  The crispy feeling of the TouGua, the fragrance of the Prawns and the freshness feeling of the Spring Onion is what made this dish taste delicious.

Boil Fish Tofu Puff With Soya Bean Paste (鱼肉豆泡煮豆拌浆)

This dish could ask your kids to involve in making it, will be fun should they participate in it, remember bonding time.  However, need to stress, not sure how many people like to eat tofu puff and if you don't, this dish perhaps not suitable.

Ingredients :-
鱼肉浆，豆泡，豆拌浆
Tofu Puff, Fish Paste and Soya Bean Paste are the only ingredient needed.  All these could be easily find in supermarket.  A cut of the Fish Paste is just nice to fill up a packet of the Tofu Puff (10 of those) and that quality is enough to serve for 4 to 5 person share.

Cooking Instruction :-1. For the Tofu Puff, cut an opening in the middle so that it looks like a pocket for you to fill in the Fish Paste.

2. Next, filling up the Tofu Puff with the Fish Paste and this is the part where you could ask your kids to help in, it will be fun for them.  Scoop 2 tea spoon full of the Fish Puff into each Tofu Puff, should there still left over Fish Paste after filling up all the Tofu Puffs, can continue to add on some more to each of the Tofu Puffs until all the Fish Paste is used up.

3. Scoop 1.5 to 2 table spoon full of the Soya Bean Paste to a rice bowl.  Fill the rice bowl with warm/hot water to about 80% filled.  Stir and mix the Soya Bean Paste until it is like dissolve in the water.

4. Pour the Soya Bean Paste solution into a small pot or wok or frying pan and heat up until it boils.

5. Once boils, quickly put in the filled up Tofu Puffs into it.  Use a spatular/ladle to mix the Soya Bean Paste solution well with the Tofu Puffs.  As the Soya Bean Paste solution is heated up, it will be hot enough to cook the Fish Paste inside the Tofu Puffs very quickly.

6.  The whole process probably take you 2 to 3 minutes.  Then the Soya Bean Paste solution probably about 90% evaporated and that will be just nice.  After that scoop out the Tofu Puffs and ready to be served.

If your kids help out in cooking that, hey can shout together "We Did It" !!!!  :)