TORD MAN GOONG ( SHRIMP CAKES )

INGREDIENTS :
500 gms : 20/30 fresh chopped prawns
1 nos : Eggs
30 gms : Bread crumbs
10 gms : Red curry paste
10 gms : Salt
10 gms : Ajinomoto
15 gms : Sugar
5 gms : Lemon leaves julienne

PROCEDURE :

1. Ensure a clean and proper workstations.
2. In a small mixing bowl, put egg, lemon leaves, red curry paste, ajinomoto and mix well.
3. Then add chopped prawns mix it well again then add bread crumbs, mix it and start beating it untill becomes thick.
4. Transfer to a small container and keep in the chiller.
   

BRAISED SHARK'S FIN SOUP WITH CRAB MEAT

INGREDIENTS:
15 gram : Shark's fin
10 gram : Crabmeat fresh
4 gram : Chicken powder Chinese
240 gram : Chicken stock ( homemade )
2 gram : Salt iodized
1 gram : Sugar granulated
1 gram : White pepper powder
1 ml : Sesame oil Chinese
3 gram : Egg white
1 sprig : Ginger juice

For boiling crab :
2 ml : Chinese wine
2 ml : Ginger juice

PROCEDURE :

1. Ensure a clean and proper workstation.
2. In a wok, boil, ginger juice and Chinese wine. Then strain the crabmeat and keep on side.
3. Boil chicken stock in the wok, put shark's fin and crabmeat, let it simmer for sometime.
4. Add chicken powder, salt, sugar, sesame oil and white pepper powder. Let it boil.
5. Once it is boiling add potato starch with water to make it thick a bit.
6. Add egg white and transfer to white soup bowl.
7. Garnish with fresh coriander sprig.

JINDO PORK SAUCE

• Red Vinegar : 2 bottle
• Black Vinegar : 1 bottle
  
• Sugar : 1300 gram
• Water : 450 gram
• Ajinomoto : 60 gram
• Salt : 40 gram
• Tomato ketchup : 1 bottle
• Lemon fresh : 2

All the ingredients mixed together except lemon fresh and boil. Last minute put lemon fresh , use simmer fire 10 minutes.
NOTE : Take out the seeds in the lemon fresh and then blend.

WATER CHESTNUT PUDDING

INGREDIENTS:
2.5 kg -Tap water
600 gr -Granulated sugar
500 gr -Water chesnut powder
375 gr -Mattifen powder
180 gr - White rice flour

PROCEDURE:

1. Ensure a clean and proper workstation.
2. In a mixing bowl, mix all the ingredients.
3. In a wok, put the mixture and let it boil.
4. Once the mixture becomes thick take it out from the fire and transfer to a stainless steel container.
5. Places the container with chesnut mixture inside the steamer and steamit for at least one hour.
6. After one hourof steaming, take it out from steamer and keep outside untill become cool.
7. Keep inside walk in chiller.
   

CUCUMBER DIP SAUCE

INGREDIENTS:
For Cucumber sauce:
300 ml : Sweet and sour sauce
700 ml : White vinegar

For 1 portion recipes:
30 gram : Cucumber sauce
25 gram : Cut cucumber cube
2 gram : Red chilly sliced
2 gram : Red onion sliced

PROCEDURE :

1. Ensure a clean and proper workstations.
2. In a small mixing bowl, place together sweet and sour sauce and white vinegar.Mix it well.Transfer to a small container and cover.Keep on side.
   
3. For serving cucumber dip sauce ; In a small sauce bowl, put cucumber, onions. and red chilli and pour cucumber sauce on top of the vegetables.
   

THE FIVE ELEMENTS THEORY OF CHINESE COOKING

Learn about the role of the five elements in Chinese Cooking
Like the concept of yin and yang, the five elements theory is at the cornerstone of Chinese culture. What is the five elements theory? The chinese believe that we are surrounded by five energy fields : woods,fire, earth, metal and water. However the elements are not static: they are constantly moving and changing . (In fact,some scientiststhink the term "element" is misleading,and prefer to refer to the "five phases " or five forces."

once the chinese identified the five elements,they set about categorizing all phenomena with in the five categories. Everything,from a river to sounds to the organs in our bodies,can be described in terms of the five elements. How things are characterized depends on their induvidual qualities. For example, earth is associated with growth and nourishment, so the spleen,which monitors the blood-digesting debris and producing anti bodies when necessary-is categorized as an earth element.

Just as an imbalanced between yin and yang can produce destructive forces, keeping all elements in balance promotes harmony both in our surroundings and ourselves. Of course, balancing five elements is a little more complicated than achieving harmony between two opposing forces. According to chinese believe, each element acts upon two others,either giving birth to it or controlling it. for example, wood gives birth to fire and controls or suppressesearth. Similarly, fire gives birth to earth and controls metal. All the elements are constantly interacting with other elements-none stand alone.

gives birth to controlling
Wood - Fire Wood - Earth
Fire - Earth Earth- Water
Earth - Metal water - Fire
Metal - Water Fire - Metal
Water - Wood Metal - Wood

To give an example from nature, a plant ( wood )grows when it is given water. When burnt, wood gives birth to fire, and the burnt ashes subsequently return to the earth.