MY FAVOURITE FOOD (Part 1)

Aug 5, 2007, 8:30 pm

For a long long time I have been asking myself what is my favourite food.

When I was still studying in Australia, I remember there were lots of food I like to eat but cannot afford to eat cos I was only a student with limited amount of spending power. That is not to say I treated myself miserly on food. I still enjoyed eating Chinese, Western, Vietnamese, Indian, Italian, Aussie, Lebanese, Malay, Japanese, etc food.

But my favourite food is still the food I had grown up with and lots of people will not understand what I am talking about cos they would not have tasted 'it' in their entire life.

Well, what is 'it' then?

When I was growing up, on Sundays when my mum went to the market, she would buy a lot of prawns to make prawn crackers. By a lot, I mean a lot, ie. 5 or 10 pounds a time. The process of making prawn crackers is a long and tedious one.

First of all, the prawns shell had to be taken off one by one. Can you imagine yourself sitting there for a few hours on a Sunday morning doing that? Well, that was how I usually spent mine.

After the prawns shells are taken off, the prawns are washed in water until the water appears to be clear. Then the prawns are squeezed to get rid of all the water. The prawns are then minced using a manual food processor before mixing in with salt, soya sauce, eggs and flour to make a dough. The dough is then steamed in the wok for more than an hour. The steamed prawn dough is left to be cooled before putting in the fridge overnight.