Sunday, September 07, 2008

steal shamelessly!

that's one of the 10 rules to building a good marketing calendar as taught by the marketing gurus at my ex-workplace! i took that a little further and try to steal a recipe for something i ate at lunch!

tried XO sauce lao shu fun at "the canteen" at shaw centre. for those who doesn't know what lao shu fun 老鼠粉 is, that is actually rice noodles also known bee ta mak. the interesting thing abt the dish was the unconventional mix of ingredients including long beans, minced chicken, century egg and of course XO sauce! it was their signature dish, it was interesting but it was a little too oily!!!

this is the original - notice that the XO sauce is placed as a topping.

so i have been in the cooking mood on sundays, and i decided to try this dish for dinner! not exactly how they cook it, i was determined to make it better - more like to make it more suitable to my tastebuds! so like what ray colon taught us... steal shamelessly! steal the idea but make it better! the end result - i think i did a better job! haha! mission accomplished!

my version with prawns

the final presentation with the century egg!

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

hey C, all these stuffs really looked yummy! You MUST cook for us....one of these days...I wanna try your cookin...hehe!

HJ

Anonymous said...

CH..tink must make arrangement (1mth before)?? haahha...

Celia said...

haha... i will be very stress leh! scared my cooking not up to standard leh! yah yah... must plan in advance for me to cook! then i must try out more recipes first! haha

Anonymous said...

dun stress lah C...we have 101% confi in you...we learn from one another...good u started the cooking "urge" in u...good de-stresser...hehe!

HJ

Celia said...

not so sure if it is a de-stresser!!! when i cook for people, i am so scared they will not like it. its ok... i will still try to explore new recipes! hehe!