Bah Kut Teh Recipe (Pork Bone Tea Soup)

One of the thing pop in my mind when anyone mentioned Malaysian food is our famous Bah Kut Teh (Pork Bone Tea Soup). Please be aware that the Malaysian Style and Singaporean Style of this dish is totally different. Malaysian's, is more to herbs and heavy taste of the pork bone soup. Singaporean's, to me its basically pepper pork tripe (stomach) soup. Big difference. So, pick your preferred.

Lets get it started !!

Getting ready part I: Mushrooms, Tofu puffs and 2 garlic bulbs. All kind of mushrooms are welcomed! Put as much as you like, same goes to tofu puff.

Getting ready part II: The meats are normally pork ribs. But this time I mixed with pork belly. Cut it in the size you want. Big, small, square, round, triangular. Its your dish, so, really is up to you.

First, use boiling water to sort of wash your pork ribs and bellies. Preferably not more than a minute. It helps to kill the germs and soften it.

Then, put everything including Uncle Sun's Bah Kut Teh's Packet (which has herbs such as Angelica Sinensis, Polygonati Odorati, Cinnamon, Pepper, Codonopsis Radix, Glycyrrhizae Radix, Ligustici, Caryophylli Flos, Citri Exocarpium, Star Anise) pork ribs, mushrooms, tofu puffs, garlics in a pot of boiling water.

After approximately 2-2.5hours of slow cooking(boiling), put in the seasoning - 2 teaspoon of soy sauce, 1 teaspoon of dark soy sauce, 1 tablespoon of oyster sauce, few dashes of white pepper powder - stirred and taste to make sure its blend in the soup before serving. To reduce the strong taste, I put 1 teaspoon of oyster sauce instead of a tablespoon.

A bowl of rice (or more) is essential.

If you're in Melbourne, like myself, I prefer Uncle Sun's over a varieties of Bah Kut Teh packets. It certainly taste better and not artificial. Go to your local groceries in China Town, you should be able to find it. I bought mine from Great Eastern Asian Grocery.


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Taco Fresho

Hello everyone.

Today is the start of Breast Cancer Awareness month. One of ladies most fear sickness. Everyone, be nice to each other, especially to the ladies =]

I have been thinking to do this for a long time but never put it in action. I look cooking. And it would be great to share it with others. As a perfectly spoiled kids back home, my cooking skills developed few years back, when I've officially become an international student, studying abroad, no relatives, no maid but myself. Then, I started to like it. Its most satisfied when others compliment and enjoy your cooking. It makes me happy. Although the clean up part is a bitch :(

As for my very first recipe on blog, I picked the easiest which I called it - "Taco Fresho". Its basically a traditional Mexican dish. Its easy and perfectly healthy. To know more about Taco, CLICK.

Ingredients - Lettuce (Option), 2 x Tomato, onion, cucumber and goat cheese. You can replace the goat cheese to others if you don't like the smell. Just not ashes cheese.

Most important, we need wheat tortilla or a pocket pita. Without this, its not Taco.


Processing - Cut onion, cucumber and tomato into small size cubical shape. Use a salad bowl, or biggest bowl you have to carry.

Then, add two full tea spoon of goat cheese. You can replaced by adding salt and pepper.

After that, mixed them using a spoon. Or like I do and prefer, two clean bare hand.

Option: Have lettuce cut and ready aside

Then, cut your pocket pita or wheat tortilla into half. Put them in dry pan, and fry them till its crispy. Remember, NO OIL!!!!!


Lettuce as base. As pita may be having holes due to your cut and fry. And it avoid leakage of your mixture. You don't want everything to fall from the back :)

Then, put your mixture above and fill it up! As much as you like.

A little bit of me =]

TIPS: Shave the cucumber if you don't like the bitterness of its skin, but it hold the nutrients.


And my bunch of tulips. The wrap is purple, but somehow, it turn blue here :s


XOXO