China Milk Scandal

I read the recent new with horror, is not that Lehman brother had bankrupt or Morgen Stanley is getting into trouble... is the MILK HORROR! China's milk scandal escalated dramatically as it emerged the illegal chemical blamed for killing four babies had been detected in a wide range of dairy products, leading to mass recalls.Authorities in mainland China said melamine, the chemical normally used in plastics that was initially found in infant milk powder, was also in regular milk being sold by three of the country's biggest dairy companies. Even before the milk scandal, foreign media investigations had discovered wide use of melamine in China to give livestock feed the appearance of higher protein content. So, in long run we dun know what will happen to those who ate the chicken, duck and cow. The unscrupulous people is really inhuman, they should have kids of their own too! How can they do such thing.

Although we always trusted Singapore that most of the imported product is safe but this time round we are not so lucky. The test result show that the yogurt bar and milk are tainted too! My neighbour's girl used to drink alot of Morn milk, her mum buy in carton! Bet she is very worried now. I drank 1 small packet when they are given as sample pack during promotion :( GEEZ... I just started to trust china product after Olympic and now....

Guess is best stick to basic, breast milk is the safest, not tainted, all natural, is free (important coz of inflation) and it came with nice container! I am so glad that I total breast feed my 2 son as long as I could. Hope all mummies do so too.

More news can be read here:

http://www.xin.sg/article.php?article=23692
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601080&sid=aJk9YS__guLc&refer=asia
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7624969.stm

Mee Hoon Kueh

This 2 day has been cooking a bit more. Yesterday some friends visited me so i cook Japanese curry, fried chicken and Wu xiang. Too bad the wu xiang (five spice meat roll) turn out lousy coz the bean curd skin was a bit rancid. I was having a bad flu and did not realise it. To make it worse, my maid who help me to mince the pork did not do a good job, leaving it quite chunky and I totally forgotten to put in onion :( Is the worse wu xiang I ever made. So, lesson learned, dun do wu xiang when u have flu and dun let the maid chop the pork.

I went back to the provision shop today to demand money back returned for the rancid bean curd skin! I still have some left over, I think I look fierce, she immediately agree to let me exchange for any other stuff. So I ended up buying brown rice for Matt and flour. I was thinking to make mee hoon kueh for a long time but never got the mood to do so. Today is hubby IPPT and I guess he would like some hot piping dinner after the failed IPPT :(

I was glad it was a success. I manage to make the kueh chewy, together with the ikan bilis soup, cai xin, mince meat, prawn, fried ikan bilis and shallot.. is heaven! To perfect it, chilli padi with soya sauce to go with it.

Here is the recipe.

Mee Hoon Kueh
(enough for 4-5 person)

400gm plain flour and half a tsp salt. Add water bit by bit and knead it for 10 mins till u get and smooth round dough. Add 1 tbsp oil and knead it in. Cover with damp cloth for half and hour.

Soup base
Fried some ikan bilis and soya bean with garlic and ginger till fragrant. Add water and boil on high fired for 10 mins and low fired for another 50 mins.

I cook one bowl at a time so the kueh will not be overcook. Heat up enough soup for 1 person and add in cai xin. Peel the kueh by hand, sort of flatten it and throw into the boiling soup. when is cooked, it will float. Add in mince meat and prawn last or else it will be too cook. Add in fried ikan bilis, shallot and coriander and ready to serve.

PS the pic is bad coz I use my handphone to take.