Malacca Chicken Rice Balls nice

Ingredients: 1 cup of chicken oil 5 cloves of garlic, diced 3 shallots, diced Ginger, grated (amount should be roughly equivalent to the shallots)

Raw Fish Salad (Yu Sheng) By: Chef Wan

Ingredients:

100 g / 3 ½ oz Fresh Salmon
2 Cups / 16 oz of Daikon (White Radish), finely shredded
2 Cups / 16 oz of Carrot, finely shredded
1 Piece Red Pepper (Capsicum), sliced thinly
2 cm / 1 inch Fresh Ginger, shredded paper thin
¼ Cup / 2 oz of Sweet Pickled Ginger, finely shredded
7 Pieces Fresh Kaffir Lime Leaves, finely shredded
4 Sprigs of fresh Chinese Parsley
¼ Cup / 2 oz of Peanuts, chopped
Toasted Sesame seeds for garnish

TIPS Cooking Basics for Beginners

When it comes to cooking, it is important to keep in mind that everyone started somewhere. I do not know of a single person who was born with a wooden cooking spoon and ready to go. There is a lot of learning that must be done in order to become a prolific cook and then there is always room for improvement. Not only do you need to begin with the basics when it comes to cooking but you almost need to begin again when learning to cook a new cuisine such as Chinese, Thai, or Indian food.

This means that at any given time in your cooking learning cycles there is quite probably someone somewhere that is better and/or worse at cooking than you. Take heart from this because even the best have bad days when it comes to cooking. There are many people who cook for different reasons. Some cook in order to eat and survive while others cook because they actually enjoy the process of cooking. Some cook during times of emotional upheaval and others cook out of sheer boredom. Whatever your reason for cooking or learning to cook you should always begin with the basics.

The first thing that you need to learn is what the different terminology you will find in recipes actually means. There are many new and sometimes foreign sounding terms that you will find in common recipes. These terms can mean the difference in recipe success or failure. You should be able to find a good section in any inclusive cookbook that explains the different definitions for unfamiliar terminology. If you aren’t absolutely certain what is meant by “folding in the eggs” it is in your best interests to look it up.