Couldn't believe it when the man told me he was off to look for dried oysters on a free afternoon in Hong Kong. So I sent him to a convenient outlet of On Kee where everything is labeled. Reminded him that one jin (一斤) is about 600g.
He returned from Hong Kong well fed and satiated from many bowls of milk pudding (燉奶) and other items, yet he requested for 'tasty rice'. That's his idea of laap mei fan (臘味飯). Apparently he didn't eat any on this trip in Hong Kong. Hahahah. All right, let's check out this new batch of Chinese preserved waxed duck breasts that I bought last month.
There's something about the Chinese preserved waxed duck that I like. Since the man and the friends were eating too, okay lah, for their sake, I added chicken breast fillets and yuncheong. The chicken breast would be helpful since it could soak up the oils and the salt. Waxed duck meat is way saltier than lupcheong and such. I don't usually stock Thai jasmine white rice, so if I want to use that, I would have to steal from the in-laws. Never mind then. Brown rice it was. Used the rice cooker again. I don't have the luxury of using a donabe in this kitchen, and I wasn't bothered to use a steel pot for this. #ImpieCooks2019
We had three friends over, and that's quite the maximum number of humans this dining table can take. Luckily these three friends (visiting from Tokyo) missed these flavors and love laap mei fan as much as we do. They would have to! I had no other food for them! We were really getting together for drinks more so than dinner. Decided to add on greens. I separately fried up baby kailan with plenty of garlic. That kinda fulfilled the nutritional quota for this meal. Hahaha. The crunchy vegetables and raw onions always make a good foil to a salty one-pot rice meal.
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