stir-fry dishes

Rice with dried anchovies, quick stir-fry for lunch

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With a few ingredients it is simple to make rice with dried anchovies in a tasty lunch, a quick stir-fry and your good to go. I had some leftover rice, dried anchovies and last bit of tempeh kering (Indonesian snack) to add an extra crunch to the dish. Have to make a new batch of Tempeh Kering or other dishes with tempeh, I am trying my hand to make tempeh at home. As soon as that experiment works I will post my findings accompanied with a dish.

Dried anchovies are versatile in Asian cooking, they are either used for broths like in Japanese, Korean soup and stews, appetizers. In Chinese home-cooking often combined with fatty dishes as in steamed Chinese style meatloaves. Or deep-fried called Ikan billis it accompanies Nasi Lemak, coconut infused rice wrapped in banana leaves. One of many favourite Singapore/Malaysian dishes. Sambal belacan ikan billis is another one, sambal belacan is a spicy chilli paste which can be added during cooking or eaten as condiment often served with Laksa. The more talk about food and we’re wandering away from our stir-fried rice.

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As shown on the photo, these are all the ingredients to start the stir-fry some leftover rice, egg, shallots, garlic, shrimp sauce/paste, chilli-soy paste, soy sauce with  Chinese cooking wine and a heated wok. For the photo I scattered some celery leaves on top, but it is tastier  with coriander and green onions unfortunately all finished it sure was time to shop for groceries too.

Rice with dried anchovies

A quick and easy stir-fry, an assembled dish of various ingredients it has literally a bit of China, Indonesia in it you’ll find the recipe in the box below.

Road stall hideaway hawker food (2)

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On our previous holidays in Pattaya we would book family-suite hotel rooms/apartments located at Jomtien Beach road, where you couldn’t get passed this hawker food place. Easy to drop in for a quick bite, lunch or dinner, just great dishes with lots of taste on top of that these hawker stalls fit in any budget. Always jam-packed with tourists and locals, can’t go wrong with the stir-fried food in here, the dishes are prepared in woks literally dancing on fiery flames. Make no mistake, we have burned our lips more than once thinking it wasn’t that hot on more than chillies only.

The hawker food place in the pictures is the one where the 7-11 shop entrance is practically build inside this road stall, also recognizable with the salt-crusted barbecue fish on street-side display.

The Som Tam food stall is located at Dongtan Beach in White House, almost next door to Nongmaii Beach Cafe. This is also the only stall where I would order the Som Tam Puma, Papaya Salad with the local delicacy of salted black mini-crabs without having any after trouble. The trick of a good prepared Som Tam is besides fresh ingredients, the pounding and scraping without making it in a mush but just soft enough retaining a crunch with a tangy-sweet-hot dressing perfectly clinging on.