PurelyFresh: Your Online Wet Market (+ Szechuan Braised Pork recipe)
Advertorial This is a collaborative post with PurelyFresh but as always, all ideas, experiences and reviews are my own. Many of you know that I buy my fruits and vegetables online. When I first started turning to cyberspace (I don’t know who else still uses this term nowadays) for my fresh groceries, I got a lot of skeptical comments. “I prefer to touch and choose my own fresh vegetables before buying” and “I won’t buy anything – much less fresh food – without looking at it first” are some of the common things that I’ve heard from friends, family and readers. Some even went as far as to tell me…
Teochew Braised Pork Belly rice/ Lo Bak/ 卤肉饭
It’s been a long while since our family had lo-bak. Ah-mm used to cook a big pot with pork belly, extra pieces of lean meat (I don’t like those. haha!) and lots of eggs every 2-3 weeks when we were all still living together. At one time, there were 11 people in our household including our helper.. and dinner (and home) was always fun, interesting, and something to look forward to. The house was almost never quiet. Ah-mm would be watching her TV til late at night (as she does now), and Cheng Lip would be flying down the stairs to cook packets of instant noodles for supper. Alex and…
