Shanghai Noodle with Pork Mince ~ 炸酱面

When you keep buying the same types of meat every week you always have to think what to cook so that we are nore eating the same dishes week after week. For many of us who just started cooking not long ago, our ideas becomes quite limited. Now I know how difficult it was when my mum cooked every single day and each day was various different dishes. It is  when they are not beside you, you start to appreciate them more than ever. I really truley admire "mothers" to a whole new level these days.  I guess that's part of growing up!

So for tonight's dinner, I thought I'll try something I haven't cooked before again,  Shanghai Noodle with Pork Mince  - (炸酱面) in chinese.  This is a northern china dish and the recipe I used is adapted from Blisstree. 

Singaporean Chilli Crab

This is going to be my debut recipe for this blog, like I said I'm not a very good cook so if i can make it all of you out there can definitely succeed. I was buying my weekly groceries at the market on saturday and came across some crabs and thought I should try this dish out since I've always wanted to try making it. Singaporean Chilli Crab has always been one of my favourite crab dish because it is so full of flavour and the sauce with the deep fried mantou (chinese sweet buns) is so delicious and I'm not a sauce lover!

There are lots of ways in achieving this dish, you could buy the instant sauce packet from asian groceries store or you can make the sauce from scratch. I always had a impression that it would be very difficult to make this dish from scratch but after some scavaging on the net I have adapted a recipe from Rasa Malaysia - Easy Asian Recipes and it was unbelievably easy and according to Mr Syu & Miss Choco they absolutely love it!