Although I can order almost every authentic Malaysian dish here, there are a few exceptions. Specialty dishes that are "uniquely Sarawak", for example, kolok mee (egg noodles) and kolok kway tiau (flat rice noodles), Sarawak laksa and tomato sauce kway tiau are not on your typical Malaysian restaurant menu. So, what do to when one cannot get them ready made here? Well, make it yourself and pray that it turns out ok. All toes and fingers crossed.
Yesterday while blogging about NY Chinatown, I felt like eating something with char sio (roast pork). I was having flash backs of the roasted pork, duck and chicken hanging by the shop's window...drool, drool!
Luckily, I did marinate a few pieces of pork loin with "Lee Kum Kee - Char Siu Sauce" over the weekend. Kolok kway tiau immediately came to my mind. But, freshly made kway tiau or rice noodles is hard to find. So dried ones will have to do. The cooked texture is starchier, so I've to be extra careful not to over-boil and turn it into mashed kway tiau. That would have been a "what-not-to-do" case study on Hell's Kitchen**.
This is the best char sio sauce I've tried so far. The taste is similar to the char sio I used to eat at home. I've tried other brands which made the meat too red...eeeeew! You know, the kind that gives you food color poisoning just by looking at it.
Ta-da.....! Home-made kolok kway tiau complete with fresh cut chilies soaked in vinegar and light soya sauce. Bon Appetit!
**Hell's Kitchen - Fox Reality TV show on cooking with one very mean world class chef, Gordon Ramsay. He is so cruel and heartless, it makes you feel so sorry for those wannabe chefs. He makes Simon Cowell look tame.
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But i like Gordon Ramsay. Saw him being interviewed in "Parkinson". Sarcastic b*****d, but so funny. Hehehe
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