Nghee Zhang

 

Nghee Zhang purchased from the market

Last week, 14 June 2021 was dumpling festival.  I managed to purchase a bunch of Nghee Zhang from the market at $5 as shown in the picture above.  Nghee Zhang is tasteless and it is nice to eat with sugar.  It is yellowish on the inside as shown in the picture below.  It just glutinous rice dipped with sugar.  It is nice.  

Nghee Zhang to be eaten with sugar

This year I had never eaten Bak Zhang.  Bak Zhang is so expensive now.  Each cost like averagely at least $6.  Then there is no guarantee that it is nice.  As I don't really like eating meat, I decided not to buy any Bak Zhang.  The children don't really like it either.  Then my mother never make any because father just died.  According to her, a few years cannot wrap dumpling.  

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SG Bean Sprouts

 

SG Bean Sprouts purchased from Giant

Purchased a packet of SG Bean Sprouts from Giant some time ago.  It was vacuum packed.  There was no date stated when it was packed.  So I have no idea whether it was fresh a not.  But it looked 'white' and there seemed to be no rotten ones from external view.  So I bought it.  

Back home, I opened it up, and was not very satisfied with it.  It was so wet, mushy and the bean sprouts were bruised.  I wanted to break the root but it was not crisp at all.  After plucking a few, I finally gave up.  I only managed to have like one third of it left to cook.

SG Bean Sprouts opened and laid on paper

I used the bean sprouts to cook Fried White Bee Hoon.  I added in frozen prawns, vegetables and bean sprouts.  I ate the Bee Hoon with Heng's Crispy Prawn Chilli.  Heng's Crispy Prawn Chilli is very nice and it goes well with the Fried Bee Hoon.  

Fried White Bee Hoon with prawns and vegetables

The best bean sprouts is still those that buy from the market.  But I saw Giant selling bean sprouts like those in market -- displayed in big baskets and you can pick your own.  This is the best.  

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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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