No more trouble trying to resist the fragrant Thailand aroma coming from your local Thai restaurant! Right here in your own kitchen where food go haywires and new recipes are miraculously discovered you can cook your very own Thai dish!
Ingredients include spices like lemon grass, lemon leaf, chilli , onion, lime , sweet Thai sauce, oyster sauce for the most important item for this dish - the mouth-watering gravy.
Ingredients also includes flour, crumbs, egg yolk and of course, the fish (any fish will do, preferrably cod :D).
First and foremost, we have to do the very important and necessary step in all cooking lessons - the preparation of ingredients, also one of the most exciting thing to do during cooking:
Shown in the above picture is a stem of a lemon grass that is unlucky enough to be violated by my soft and delicate hands. What you have to do is to mash the stem up so that it will be squashed enough to ooze out its fragrant lemon juice later when preparing the sauce.
Do not, I repeat, DO NOT squeeze and wringe the stem no matter how tempted you are to see all the juice flowing out while laughing sadistically at its poor plight, like what Leon did.
It's better to leave the juice oozing out naturally during the preparation later.
Meanwhile, the onion is cut into big fat chunks that will also be used later. Try not to cry when cutting the onion, or else it'll make the sauce more salty.
And of course, slice that piece of fresh meat (the fish that is dumb enough to get caught HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, oops) into square chunks, you'll see why later.
And of course, with every cooking lessons that I have, I do not fail to have Miss Camwhore working with me. This time, she's got a very dry nose and Leon is very tempted to stuff the chilli into her nose (gross I know, but it's soooooooo tempting!) because he is a sadistic jerk HAHAHA.
Okay.
So, you have to cut the chilli into slices and becareful not to place your fragile finger on the red part but instead hold it at the stem because Leon does not want the chilli juice (?) to spurt onto your finger and cause you to feel a hot and sexy sensation.
So you have finally got those little spices that are very important (good things come in small packages, learnt that from Deb!) and are a necessity to this particular Asian dish, now you get a chance to get down in intensive hot action.
Pour loads and loads of oil (more if you are cooking for Cherie, because she is a stick) into the pan and heat it until the oil gets hot (don't use your face to test whether it's hot okay!)
Next, as the ambassador of world-peace-through-deep-frying-fishes , we have to prepare the fish physically and mentally by follow this catchy rule:
Flour, egg, crumb.
Which means you have to bathe the fish in egg yolk so that it gets sticky and wet (sounds wronggg!) and then you rub it in flour then followed by crumb (can you imagine your the fish? Disgusting feeling!).
And you throw it into the circular abyss of inferno and it sizzles as it calls for his mummy, and you just stand there rooted to the ground, watching it dying in agony, argggh, so sadist, but I like it :)
And then his mummy joins the fun and then followed by his whole family, and a few kids (the crumbs).
You can actually trick your friends thinking that your cooking nuggets and when they eat it, they get a little pleasant surprise :D
Ehehe, poor fishes getting fried until they look golden brown - pretty tempting to gulp them into your mouth right away but WAIT, you still haven't prepare the most important thing to change this little fish "nuggets" into a Thai dish!
So all you have to do is clear the pan that is full of leftover crumbs and then top up a little more fat oil, beef it up a little, and pour in all the small little spices that you have been preparing and watch them sizzle in delight.
Add in oyster sauce and sweet Thai sauce (amount varies) and mix it around and pour in a little water then stay back and watch the creamy gravy appear right in your eyes.
Once that sweet juice (sounds wrong againnnnnn?) is ready...
Pour the stuff in the pan into a sieve and start to filter out the mixture, with the gravy as the filtrate and the spices as the residue (Mr Tan say must polish my answering technique, and so I did, do I get my A1? :D)
AND TADA.
The final product, and you get to serve your friends/family an exotic dish that can only be found in a Thailand restaurant (okay, not really).
And that brings an end to today's Friday culinary show! :D
Back to reality *snaps*.
I was pretty taken aback by Linda's adrupt comment during today's recess:
"Eh Leon, you know right, people know you as the small-shirt-guy," said Linda, flickering her shiny brownish hair like as if she was the ambassador for Lux.
Leon's face become distorted with shock and unbelief upon feeling the disgust of his new alias, the Small-Shirt-Guy.
Oh my granny.
I admit I do have a miniature uniform that seems so yellow as though I soaked it in chlorine and that it is translucent - but HEY, it has historical value okay!
Where else can you find someone with a shirt that lasted you all the way from Secondary One until now?
This is what I'm going to do:
On the last day of school, I'm going to bring all my sets of historical and priceless semi-transparent uniform and ask my friends to sign on it - one shirt per level.
I tell you, it will rake up to a high value during an auction man, maybe it will be displayed in some museum, I don't know :D
Oh well, till that day comes then, I'd have to start mugging hard first, or else it won't be the last day of school for me (retake 'O')
Talking about T-shirt, let me introduce you to this Chemistry fanatic:
Mr Shaun
Mr Tan is gonna be soooooooo proud of him. Maybe we should start designing shirts with maths formulas on it :D
PS: Junyuan's alumni dinner on 8th August (thanks Justin Khaw)
PSS: Funan IT mall is organising a DotA Allstars Interschool Competition
REPLY TO TAGS:
Rachel - Aiya, my han yu pin yin of course cannot compare to someone from Malaysia right? Malaysia, truly Asia, therefore Chinese will be better, mah. And it's not my fault that MY green tea is bitter - in fact, it's already sooooo sweet that you get diabetes after drinking it, but then too bad your taste bud must have grow mushrooms thats why it's bitter :D
Wan Swen - Oh crap, yeah, a dart board :P Memory leak, mah. All Grace's fault, because she sit in front of me, her wig sometimes got some dandruff then they will all float into my nose and then they will travel up my brain so I get STM or memory leak, SIGH.
Hilda - Yo yo yo, long time no talk, ya? And no I don't tag as anonymous on people's blog, how are you coping with the school work man?
Amirul - LOL. Talking about Rubik cube, I'm very very tempted to make a trip to childish Toy R Us just to purchase one. Can't blame me, the computer is getting more and more boring nowadays - I need another entertainment source :P
Marcus - Don't sad, Leon will cheer you up! :)
Kai Wei - But it's okay, I'm gonna live my life to the fullest, which is one of my reasons for being a DJ in the future (because I can escape the daily routine of working in a little box everyday in an office) :D What's your ambition?
Lol - HAHA. You naughty boy, hormones raging huh? Tsk tsk tsk :)
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