Crispy skin chicken

Ingredients
1 whole chicken (approx 900 gms to 1 kg)
1 tsp salt
1 tsp pepper
3 tbsp sour plum sauce
1 tsp sugar
1 tsp light soya sauce
4cm ginger
1 cucumber
1 stalk parsley

Method
1. Clean chicken properly and pat dry with a kitchen towel. Rub the inside of the chicken with salt and pepper.

2. Pound ginger and squeeze out juice. Mix ginger juice with sugar, light soya sauce and plum sauce.

(Use this to marinate chicken. Leave aside for one hour,
returning to pour marinate over chicken every fifteen minutes.)

3. Hang chicken to dry under hot sun for two hours or more.

4. Heat 5 cups oil in kuali. When very hot, lower the
chicken into the oil. The oil should cover the chicken
halfway.

(Using a ladle, spoon hot oil to bast the top half of the chicken.
When the underside is golden brown, turn the chicken over. Continue to bast chicken with scoops of hot oil, paying particular attention to the parts that are under-done.)

5. When done, allow to stand for 10 minutes to cool
slightly. Then chop up and serve immediately or the skin
will lose its crispiness.

Serve with sliced cucumber and chilli or plum sauce
if preferred.

Broccoli with mushrooms

Ingredients
200 gms broccoli
1 carrot
10 Chinese mushrooms
1/2 can button mushrooms (or straw mushrooms)
50 gms fresh oyster mushrooms
2 tbsp oyster sauce

Method
1. Soak Chinese mushrooms. Wash vegetables and slice carrot into pretty shapes.

2. Cut broccoli into small florets and blanch in boiling water till cooked. Remove and arrange in circle on plate. Keep water for stock.

3. Heat one tablespoon oil in kuali and fry carrots for three minutes. Add mushrooms. Stir and add vegetable stock. Simmer five minutes. Season with oyster sauce and thicken with cornflour.

4. Scoop into middle of broccoli florets and serve. You can add prawns and meat to mushroom sauce if so desired.

Prawns in honey

Ingredients
600g medium-sized prawns
2 tsp honey
1 tsp anise seed powder
1 tsp coriander powder
1 tsp cumin seed powder
1 tsp pepper
1 tbsp chilli powder
1 sliced cucumber
Oil
Salt to taste

Method
1. Clean prawns and remove the sharp portion of the mouth. Leave the shells.

2. Wash and drain. Mix spices and chilli powder to make a paste. Add prawns and honey and mix well. Marinate for one hour.

3. Heat oil in frying pan. Fry prawns till cooked. Decorate with cucumber slices and serve.