Mimi's Dining Room

A super simple vegetable stir fry for today’s post.  Water spinach or more commonly known as Kangkung (in Malay), is a type of long, leafy green vegetable with hollow stems that grows in water or damp soil. It’s name in Mandarin, Kōng Xīn Cài 空心菜 which means “hollow heart vegetable”, can very much describe the vegetable’s characteristics.  Here in Malaysia, […]

I always have sufficient supply of home grown chives from my mom because she has a few pots of chives in her garden. #blessed 🙏  Other than a simple omelet dish that I’m going to share today, I like to associate chopped chives into meat filling for my dumpling for its distinctive garlicky note. Instead a basic chives + egg […]

I want to know how many of you know the name of this vegetable? Or have you ever seen this in markets? This is Celtuce, 莴笋 “Wo Sun”, otherwise known in English as stem lettuce, asparagus lettuce, celery lettuce, or Chinese lettuce. It is common at Chinese markets but less available elsewhere and I got to know about this vegetable […]

Oyakodon (親子丼), a classic Japanese Donburi (rice bowl), literally means “Parent-and-Child Donburi” in Japanese, which is a reference to two of the dish’s main ingredients: chicken and egg. The rice bowl is topped with with tender chicken pieces, onion and egg simmered in a flavourful stock. It’s a satisfying comfort food that’s simple and easy to prepare at home, with minimal ingredients, […]