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Saturday, 2 March 2019

家庭式炒牛肉河粉的好辦法 The Best Home Style Stir-fry Thin Rice Noodle Herr Feng



Published Date: March 1st, 2019 Mandarin Pages  
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撰写: 黄帆 






Herr Feng is a kind of Chinese rice noodle, which looks like Pappardelle but it is much thinner and a lot more fragile than Pappardelle. 

Often, there were some housewives who followed the master chefs from the TV cooking show to learn how to stir-fry herr feng, but they usually came out with broken and unpalatable herr feng on the dinning table.


If we use the same professional restaurant kitchen method to stir fry herr feng in our own kitchen, we can't expect to get the same gastronomical result. First, our wok can't rock like a professional Chinese gas stove on our own home style non-durable stove. Next, the fire of our home style stove is usually not as high as the fire of a  restaurant's professional stove.

If you want to get the same professional chefs' stir-fry herr feng's results on a home-style stove, unless you change the process and method of preparing and stir frying herr feng.

Here, I teach you how to use an innovative and simple preparation and cooking methods to revolt the traditional ways, you will get unexpected good results.



经常有一些家庭主妇跟随着电视烹饪节目里的大厨学习炒牛河但在自家厨房里弄得九牛二虎后却炒出了破碎又不好吃的河粉。
如果我们用相同职业餐馆厨房式的方法在我们自家厨房里炒河粉,我们可不能指望得到同样的效果,第一我们的炒锅不能在自家的不耐用的火炉上如职业性炉子般摇滚,接下来我们自家炉子的火侯通常不如餐厅职业性火炉的火侯高。
如果您想在家庭式的炉子上炒出像职业大厨相同的炒河粉效果,除非您改变了炒河粉预备的过程和烹饪方法。
在这里,我教您如何使用创新又简单的预备和烹饪方法在自家炒河粉,您会得到意想不到的好效果。




Procedure to Prepare Herr Feng   
牛河预制过程














Julienne onion, slice scotch fillet of tenderloin, marinate wit salt and pepper. Mince garlic, mince the white part of garlic chives, cut green part of garlic chives into an inch long. 
洋葱和牛肉切片,只用Scotch fillet 或 里脊肉 (Tenderloin),用盐和胡椒腌制。切碎大蒜,将蒜韭菜切成一英寸长,将其白部分切碎。备用。


















Use a pack of 1 kg fresh herr feng that you can buy from most Asian supermarket. In a mixing bowl, mix herr feng with appropriate amount of bean sprout, green part of garlic chives, black soy sauce, sweet soy salt, oyster, black sesame oil, ketchup, fish sauce, rice vinegar and rice wine. Carefully use your hand to mix everything together like the picture shown. Get ready of 6 whisked eggs.
使用一包一公斤的河粉,加入适量的豆芽,蒜韭菜,黑酱油,甜酱油,蚝油,黑芝麻油,番茄酱,鱼露,米醋和米酒。小心混合所有的用料。拌打六粒鸡蛋。备用。


















One pack of herr feng can be portioned into 4 to 6 persons' portions. You need to stir-fry 4 times. Use a cast iron wok, this will help to retain the heat better especially on a home stove. Add oil to sweat onion and white part of garlic chives mince and garlic mince, sprinkle some grey salt and ground black pepper. While it is smoking, add the beef slices, let the beef quickly sealed  a little more than rare.
一包河粉可以提供多达四至六人的份量。您也须要炒四轮的河粉。把铸铁炒锅加热(它能保持热量),加入油,炒洋葱,撒上少许的盐和胡椒粉,然后加入白蒜韭菜和大蒜碎,炒至软化,然后加入牛肉片,让牛肉在铸铁炒锅15秒内迅速灼烧。


















Sealed  the uncooked beef with whisked eggs.
加入鸡蛋,用蛋密封二分熟的牛肉片。

















Add 250g of seasoned herr feng mixture. Remember you must turn on fire on high mode all the time, only high fire can successfully produce good aromatic food.
加入250克预备好的混合河粉用料。切记要一直打开着高火炒, 火候高炒出来才好吃!
















If you can't rock the wok on your fragile home stove, but you must add the air to the stir-fry food, thus, you must use two wooden spoon or two spatulas, try to throw the herr feng upwards into the air during stir-frying with the 2 wooden spoons or spatulas. This just required 1 to 2 minutes depending on the fire temperature,  the amount you stir-fry and the size of your wok.
当您无法摇动炒锅时,您必须想办法在翻炒过程中将空气加入其中!因此您须用两把炒菜铲在炒时将河粉向上快速的抛。讨程只大约一至兩分钟左右。
















Transfer the ready stir-fried herr feng into a warmed plate
将炒熟的河粉立即转移到温热的盘子里。

















You have the best quality, aromatic and hygienic herr feng coming out from your own home style stove!
还冒着烟香喷喷又好吃,又美味,又卫生的炒牛河是来自您自家的厨房!

















You can apply the same method to your stir-fry rice, mix your rice with oil, seasoning and mixed vegetables. Then you sweat onion, garlic with oil, then add Chinese sausage, prawn and whisked eggs. Add the ready mixed rice, stir-fry with only high fire for 1 to 2 minutes.
您可以使用相同的預制方法来炒揚州炒饭。先把白飯, 蔬菜杂锦与调味料混合。在熱油中加葱,蒜末,香肠,虾和鸡蛋。然后把調好的飯加入炒一兩分鐘即可。





Monday, 11 February 2019

IDENTIFY DIFFERENT TYPE OF MEATS - Part 1


















By From the Piano Chef




Just last month, one of the articles shown in a Malaysian in-fight magazine called Going Places that introduced food from all over the world either by reviewing, promoting or informing has stirred a hoo-ha. The problem all started due to an unidentified Muslim netizen who protested an expensive pork Iberico should not be promoted by the Malaysian Airline due to it is the airline from a Muslim country. Later, MAS apologized immediately, however, many people think that MAS shouldn’t apologize due to MAS is an international airline not a Muslim airline.

















This picture was released at MAS in-flight magazine, Going Places on January 2019, I noticed the tomato at the side looked too red, the picture has obviously gone through some color adjustment. Unless a person knows all kinds of meats very well, or else it could be hard to identify from the color modified picture particularly in this case to identify the beef steak from pork Iberico, especially Pork Iberico is known to grill to medium rare. The best A3 - A5 Wagyu steak is full of marbling fat, with whitish fat and pinkish meat intercalated, and it is usually only be grilled to Rare, so that its fat won't be dissolved completely in order to retain its shape, flavor and quantity.

















Picture shown is the Pork Iberico fillet



















Picture shown is the beef fillet

















This picture shown is the Wagyu steak.























This is how red Pork Iberica appeared as almost like beef.  These pigs are fed on acorns, pork version of Kobe beef.













Another bright red, best quality pork version of Kobe beef, Mangalista pork.

























Pictures of Pork Iberico


Are all Pork Safe to Eat Medium Rare like Pork Iberico ?


Whether the pork can be eaten raw or not, it is up to your own decision. Just like many doctors that I know of personally would refuse to eat sashimi or even medium raw beef steaks. Usually, it is the unhealthy animal meats make us human sick. Unless you know the resources of such meat, then you can take the risk to eat it not well-done. The following are links for you to decide.


















This is the dish cooked from slaughtered fighting bull




After I read the article from this link (https://says.com/my/news/malaysia-airlines-going-places-magazine-pork-wagyu-beef) I decided I must write some cooking method about beef, it is for someone who are not trained in culinary school, who were not able to identify a piece of grilled steak from a braised beef.












The following is how to identify the different western style cooking method:


1. Braise
It is a slow and wet-form of cooking method, usually a larger, tougher and cheaper piece of beef such like beef cheeks that required many hours braising inside an oven under low temperature, when the meat comes out it is well-done, juicy and tender due to the melting of collagen. Chefs would brown the surface of the meat over the stock top before braising, some root vegetable are used to enhance flavor.

2. Grill
A dry-form of cooking, tender piece of beef like sirloin, tenderloin or Scotch fillet is grilled quickly over a hot BBQ stove top or over a griddle. It requires a rest, upon cutting, the red juice oozed out is not the blood but the red liquid is actually myoglobin, a protein that’s only found in muscle tissue. Alternatively, some chefs would grill a piece of steak over the stove top then cook-off in an oven to a preferred doneness.











Picture shown grilled steak



3. Roast
A large piece of meat is roasted inside an oven with higher temperature than braising, usually when the meat surface is brown, the beef will be rested before cutting, red juices may ooze out, it is not the blood but myoglobin. Braising has liquid, roasting is a dry-form of cooking inside an oven, the dripping juice from the meat on the roasting pan is usually used to glaze the meat to prevent it from drying and it also made a big piece of meat looks shinny and appetizing.

4. Sous-vide
Meat cooked in vacuum packed sous-vide bag to cook in a sous-vide machine for a long time with low temperature usually around 65 degree Celsius. And then the final product’s surface is brown over a frying pan to enhance its appearance, taste and flavor.












Picture shown Sous-vide Wagyu tenderloin, the texture of the meat is very tender, juicy and with good mouth feel.


5. Cold smoke
Meat smoked for long hour under low temperature.

6. Tartare and Carpaccio
These are the uncooked version of meat, usually beef is used. It is also known as chemically cooked beef by using vinegar or mustard and different herbs and spices to season the meat.

7. Stew
Wet-form of slow cooking, the different from braising is its meat is cut into smaller pieces, cook over the slow fire or oven with root vegetable, wine and stock until it is cooked.

8. Gravlax (Curing)
Use the mixture salt, herbs and spice to bury the meat or fish for 2 to 3 days. This way the meat or fish is chemically cooked by salt. Traditionally, Asian use this method as well to preserve their meat and fish.




Note:  This is the English version for the NZ Mandarin Pages weekly food column.

Wednesday, 6 February 2019

传统性的一些早餐是否有足够的健康? Is traditional big breakfast healthy enough to eat it every morning?


是否我们可以每天重覆饮食它们?

How  many breakfast components are not freshly cooked by chefs?

Published Date: Jan 31st, 2019. Mandarin Pages   (Double click Mandarin Pages  to  link it to Weixin's food column)