Bean Sprouts

 

Photograph showing market bean sprouts that was bought

Yesterday went to my mum house.  When I was going home, she walked with me to the shops to buy food for me and I saw bean sprouts at the shop -- Blk 413 Malay shop selling vegetables.  The shop had her bean sprouts displayed outside the shop.  It was rather nice.  So I decided to buy the bean sprouts for cooking Fried Kway Teow Mee for dinner later.  My mother helped me to choose the bean sprouts then she paid for me.  A lot of bean sprouts just for 40cents only. 

Photograph showing some plucked bean sprouts on my palm 

Photograph showing the finished plucked bean sprouts

Back home, I began plucking the bean sprouts.  You can compare the bean sprouts with the soybean sprouts that I had purchased from Redmart.  The soybean sprouts cost $1.53, and the seed leaves or cotyledons were very big and 'crunchy'.  As I was plucking the bean sprouts, I could smell the 'normal beansprouts smell'.  But when I was plucking the soybean sprouts, I did not smell anything.  

Photograph showing the bean sprouts cooked with scallops

Photograph showing my finished product, Fried Kway Teow Mee

I defrost some boiled scallops, and when it was dinner time, I cooked them with bean sprouts.  Next, I fried garlic and add the noodles into it.  Added light soy sauce and sweet sauce to it and then crack some eggs into it.  Lastly add the scallops and bean sprouts to it, optional chilli, and that's it.  I fried some hash browns to go along with it.  

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Fried Kway Teow Mee

Photograph of  SG Soybean Sprouts (Bean Farm)

Recently I bought bean sprout from the wet market.  Came home, opened up the plastic bag and saw that the bean sprouts were not fresh at all.  So this time, I ordered bean sprout from Redmart.  I planned to cook Fried Kway Teow Mee and so I ordered all the ingredients that I need -- yellow noodles, kway teow, fish cakes, bean sprout and Xiao Bai Cai.  

Photograph of soybean sprouts

So I opened the soybean sprouts.  Looking at it from outside the plastic bag, I already can see that this soybean sprouts are so huge.  They were so thick and big as compared to normal beansprouts from the market.  So I picked one by one to pluck away all the root and to select the good ones, throwing away rotten ones.  

Photograph of my Fried Kway Teow Mee

The final product of my Fried Kway Teow Mee is shown above.  I cannot wait to try the soybean sprout.  I tried the Fried Kway Teow Mee.  It was nice, with the bean sprout giving it crunch.  However, I think it is not so aromatic as the normal bean sprouts.  Also the seed leaves, the cotyledons seems too big.  I think I will buy it again, this time, I would try cooking it with chives.  

One thing which is lacking in my fried kway teow is cockles.  If there are cockles, it would be perfect. Nowadays, a lot of Fried Kway Teow stalls do not add cockles also.  Some have very small cockles also, very hard to find a kway teow stall with nice kway teow and cockles.  

 

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