Makansutra night at Manila Ocean Park

We had dinner at makansutra after the kids went to see the penguins at Ocean Park.  We tried their hainanese chicken, char kway teo, wonton mee, and pad thai noodles. It remided me of when we lived in Singapore when we survived on char kway teo and wonton mee. Good memories.

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Rice week: Chicken stock rice

In honor of rice week, I tried to make a simple flavored rice with 5 ingredients.

Ingredients:
oil
minced garlic
chopped onion
chicken stock
washed rice

First, heat up your pan with oil.
Saute onions and garlic in the oil.
Add the rice until they have a sheen of oil on them.
Add your chicken stock, and cook like you normally cook rice, or you could transfer it to a rice cooker.

The result: a light flavored rice, but not as flavorful as I hoped.

Rice week: Java rice

I decided this week is rice week. As a start to the week, I will try Java rice. The filipino version. Since there are so many recipes out there, I decided to compile a few and see where that takes me.

First off, java rice by casa veneracion

Here is her recipe:

Ingredients

• 4 tbsps. of coconut (or some other palm) oil
• 2 tbsps. of finely minced garlic
• 2 tbsps. of finely minced ginger
• 2 shallots, finely chopped
• 2 tbsps. of finely minced lemongrass
• 1 finely chopped bird’s eye chili
• 1 tsp. of turmeric powder
• 6 c. of cold cooked rice
• salt, to taste
• crisp onion slices and chopped scallion (onion leaves), to garnish

It looks simple enough, and I love that she did a step by step with photos. I'm not sure about ginger, and lemongrass being in the rice though. Wouldn't biting into those ingredients be a not so pleasant experience?