I enjoy cooking for frens & people i love and ever since moving to KL over 2 years ago … i’ve been doing it quite regularly.
I can’t really remember when i started cooking … or where or who I learnt it from.
A close friend recently came to my place to cook for me and he struggled to put a meal together with the pots, pans and things i had in my kitchen. He said I had very “ang mo” utensils, pots, pans and even “ang mo” oil and spices which he had no idea how to use. I had to run down to the corner provision shop to get him canola-oil so he cud deep-fry his salmon.
Watching & helping him prepare and cook the meal … and finally tasting the food …. I realised i don’t really know much about chinese cooking. In fact, what I know about cooking is self-taught and sketchy at best coz i’m making it up as i cook each time. I usually get it right just by following recipes so I guess I sort-of can cook.
Started to read a cookbook from cover to cover … you know … go through those intro pages we all usually skip … and realised the following things:
- olive oil should not be used for asian cooking coz the taste clash
- teflon is a “no-no”
- real woks need to be seasoned with oil and they become non-stick if u do it right
- u shudn’t wash a proper wok with soap … just use hot water and u shud oil ur wok before putting it away
- chinese cooking means u cut meat and vegeatbles very differently than if u were doing it for a western dish (my fren complained i cut mushrooms for his soup in a way he’d never seen before)
Bought a wok over the weekend with the help of my fren. threw away the teflon frying-pan-cum-sort-of-wok that i used to use.
So now i have a wok to add to the stainless steel cookware i have and some japanese cooking pots and pans i inherited from my mom
Guess its the start of me learning how to cook properly.
Question now is … will i be my usual obsessive compulsive self about learning to cook and keep at it constantly till i get somewhat proficient at it
If so …. poor robin and bryan … they’ll have to be guniea pigs for all the things i whip up
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