A Chinese Fare

Seafood Soup

It all began one night when mom and I were discussing dinner for Sat and Sun. Yup that's what we do.. plan something special or exotic for the weekend since i don't really get to see her much over the week. So this particular weekend, we wanted Chinese food. Now Mom usually suggests sweet and sour chicken or fish but i thought.. lets be adventurous and do something different.. so we decided black pepper chicken..

Chap Chye

So Sunday came and Mom started prepping for dinner. She did the soup first, then the chap chye and finally (not really the case of save the best for last) the black pepper chicken... the soup was good.. flavoursome with fresh fish, fishballs, Chinese cabbage, carrots and more. The chap chye equally delicious with so many different vegetables .. but mom didn't put in the baby corns that i so fondly remember from all the chap chyes i had in my childhood.. the black pepper chicken was horrible.. yuck.. it was pungent and sweet and yuck yuck yuck and it was all my fault... i suggested that mom use a prepackaged sauce and so we bought one from the supermarket... big mistake.. it was so bad.. none of us could stomach it.. mom had to wash.. literally wash the whole dish and quickly stir fry it again in soy sauce, ginger and dried chillies.. thank god for my mom's quick thinking the dish became more palatable.. i can't believe they still sell that stuff and people buy it.. eeewww .. some people out there have really weird standards.