After dining out at Fu Lee Seafood (富俐海鮮), a tze char (煮炒) stall located in Block 126 Canberra Street, sis help packed for us the Mango Crispy Chicken (芒果脆鸡) and Yang Zhou Fried Rice (扬州炒饭). Love the extra crispy fried chicken cutlet with tangy sweet and spicy mango sauce. Even the fried rice is so good with flavour of the Wok Hei (镬气), translated into English means “wok thermal radiation” or metaphorically, the “breath of the wok”.
As a Pokemon baker, I love adding my own nerdy twist to Jewish foods! ✡️ Latkes are fried potato pancakes we eat to commemorate the miracle of the oil in the story of Hanukah. These have got to be one of my favourite parts of the Festival of Lights 🤤
Galets are the most typical pasta from Catalonia and the Balearic Islands, together with fideus (short noodles).
Galets can be made in different sizes, from the size of a thumb nail to as big as an open mouth, but the bigger sizes are usually reserved for festivity meals like Christmas soup.
It's unknown when galets were created, but it's known that the profession of pasta maker or noodle maker (fideuer) is centuries-old in Catalonia. In Barcelona, the pasta/noodle makers grouped themselves in a guild in the year 1611.
Cook the noodles. Mix the condiments in a bowl. Drain the noodles. Stir through the sauce. Top generously with sliced spring onion and chopped coriander. Eat.
Also from Choo Chiang Roasted Meat Noodle House (珠江烧腊面家) but this time is Roasted Chicken & Pork Rice (烧鸡烧肉饭). You see, this “roasted” chicken is in actual fact deep-fried but over here in Singapore and Malaysia, everyone just called it roasted chicken (烧鸡).
I was taught how to make these by the talented John Leung using this recipe for char siu BBQ pork buns, and they are AMAZING. The plain ones have chocolate ganache filling - dinner and dessert!
We made these back in 2022, and I've been dreaming of them ever since, but it's a very involved process!
Botifarra (Catalan pork sausage) with white beans is one of the most iconic dishes of Catalan cuisine. It has historically been a simple dish, affordable by the lower classes and eaten both by farmers in the countryside and the working class in cities. For this reason, eating it was so widespread that, added to the fact that it's delicious, it has come to be considered Catalonia's national dish. It's usually eaten with allioli sauce (typical Catalan sauce made mainly of garlic and olive oil).
Nowadays, it’s still as beloved as always and often eaten in botifarrades (large meetings of people, often as part of a festivity, to cook and eat botifarres together).
Variations: instead of white beans, in autumn the botifarra can be served with the mushroom called bloody milk cap (rovelló in Catalan). Nowadays, many restaurants will also offer to change the beans for potato fries, especially for children.
Photo from Restaurant Can Valls (Sant Martí Sapresa).