Choice of home cooking or dining out

I seldom eat out nowdays as the cooking is unhealthy.Food is deep fried or swimming in oil and sometimes hygiene is lacking.the cases of mass food poisoning or gastroenteritis or salmonella is shocking so i choose to cook at home.the other day i ordered Hokkien mee ar a cafe and it looked like mee hoon cooked in watery kicap manis not have wok hei of famous Tiong fried hokkien mee which has smoky flavour,lots of crunchy latd ,shrimps and they put in bean sprouts like taugeh into it.yucks it was like char kway teow.good hokkien mee must be dry ,stir fried in intense fire not soggy.use green vege not put in bean sprouts.it really killed my apetite that i couldnt finish my meal.i miss the cooking of skilled chefs who take pride in their culinary dishes. Life is getting hard in cities as petty thefts have happened.My blind elder sister says that she doesnt order food online anymore as when the delivery boy hangs the plastic bag of food outside her gate,someone will steal her packed food.it happened a few times.I told her it could be poor migrants or the homeless passerbys.She Even had cat burglars climbing into her porch from the back lanes to steal her shoes on the porch.i told her to put shoe cabinet in the living room Some bloody petty thief stole the Weinbrenner hiking sandals i bought from Bata.i couldnt go hiking in hilly terrrain as the pair of Weinbrenner sandals has good grip and is waterproof to wade across streams.its a sign life is hard when people steal food and shoes to survive. i cooked bak kut teh the famous Meat bone soup to nourish my health.This tonic meat soup has chinese herbs like angelica root,dong quai,wai san and i put in red dates ,load of raw garlic bulbs and shitake mushrooms .it boosts my immune system.i use an old broiler chicken as the tough bird doesnt disintegrate boiling for hours.Soup was delicious eaten with tofu puffs and fine rice vermicelli but meat of old hen was a tough cookie.it was cheaper than pork ribs that cost Rm22.the old hen only cost rm 8. i also got a golden pomfret at rm 8 from Lotus and steam it with old ginger,shitake mushroom,red dates n soy sauce,cooked a egg tofu with fish ball n mixed vege n a herbal soup for dinner.for lunch i cook gtilled western chicken chop in lemon sour plum sauce,steamed sweet potato and brocolli.sometimes i cook shepherds pie with minced chicken or potato gnocchi with pesto in smoked duck and mushrooms.My newest food addiction is japanese pasta mentaiko but i use ebiko roe as its cheaper than cod roe.i thicken with greek yohurt instead of heavy cream.Shiso leaves are hard to find.

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