Herbal Duck Noodles Soup

Ingredients :

1. One Roast Duck
2. One packet of Mee Sua (or any noodles)
3. 2 liter of water
4. 4-5 section of sugar canes
5. 8-10 red dates
6. Salt - according to taste

Chinese herbs :

1. 50g wolfberry
2. 50g fu shen
3. 50g huai shan
4. 50g dang shen
5. 3 pieces of chuan xion

Method :-

1. Arrange the roast duck to be cut into edible pieces - choose the nicer pieces out (to use as decoration later). Take out the skin or fats of the remaining pieces of duck.
2. Boil a pot of water. Once the water is boil, put in the pieces of duck (those w/o skin) into the pot and boil for about 10 minutes. Reason is to "wash" again the fats that can be found on the meat.
3. Take out the pieces of meat and rinse till clean.
4. Use a bigger pot, boil the 2 lliter water with the herbs, sugar canes, red dates and duck pieces. Once it is boiling, transfer to a slow cooker and simmer for about 2-3 hours.
5. Blach the noodles in boiling water. Arrange the required amount of noodles in a bowl. Add in the herbal duck soup and duck pieces. Garnish with chopped spring onions.

Vietnamese Shaking Beef

Ingredients :

To marinate :-

1. 1.5 lbs beef sirloin -cut into small cubes
2. 3 tbs minced garlic
3. 1 tbs sugar
4. 2 tsb oyster sauce
5. 1.5 tbs sesame oil
6. 1 ts thick soy sauce

Method :

1. Marinate beef with garlic, oyster sauce, sugar, fish sauce, thick soy sauce and sesame oil for at least 2-3 hours
2. Heat a pan over high heat. Add cooking oil and layer of beef on the pan and fry for 2 minutes then turn around for another 2 minutes until the beef is brown.
3. Transfer to a plate and decorate with tomatoes or onions. Served while its hot.