Salad with mini cucumber and bean curd

Ingredients

Method

1. 
   
   Heat the oil in the cooking pot and deep-fry the bean curd cubes until golden and crisp.
   
   
   
2. 
   
   Cut the fried bean curd into bite-sized pieces.
   
   
   
3. 
   
   Slice the onion finely.
   
   
   
4. 
   
   Cut the mini cucumbers into long, thin strips.
   
   
   
5. 
   
   Put all the main ingredients into a salad bowl and add 1 tablespoon of lemon juice.
   
   
   
6. 
   
   Seasons to taste (salt & Ajinomoto).
   
   
   
7. 
   
   Toss well and ready to serve as a side dish.
   
   
   

Serves : 2-3

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A sweet dessert & an enduring love story

Pearl sago with sweet potatoes

Cooking Time : 50-60 mins
Serves : 3-4

Ingredients
2 cups water
5 tablespoons pearl sago
4 tablespoons sugar
150ml coconut cream
3 sweet potatoes ( diced into bite-sized cubes)

Method

1. Bring water to a boil and add sago. Put a lid on and let it cook for about 20 minutes on low heat.


2. Add sweet potatoes cubes to the sago mixture and cook until sago becomes almost translucent.


3. Add coconut cream and sugar to the mixture and stir evenly. Simmer this for another 15-20 minutes.

This is a great light dessert served after a heavy meal. Enjoy :)) Oh....WAIT!!!!! End of the sweet light dessert recipe..........BUT........I still have part 2 of my this post which is an enduring love story!!!!!!!!!!
I was thinking of introducing one of Myanmar legends 'Kinnara' (a favourite Myanmar symbol of enduring love) to my non-burmese readers. Well, after searching and browsing through some of the Burmese websites, i came across this particular website which had posted about the various Kinnara stories in detail. I must admit that some of these informations that were posted on Myanmar legends (click to visit and read about Kinnara stories), i was reading them for my very first time too. So this is one great thing about blogging. In order to share our own culture with others through our blogs, we ourselves need to explore and discover our own culture. Blog.....blog...blog............what an excellent way to explore and share :)))

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