In my previous post, I wrote about the lam mee at Pisa Corner. After that, I decided to look up what makes a dish "lam mee". I found this recipe on Rasa Malaysia.
Turns out that it is quite similar to hokkien mee, which explains the good prawny smell from the Pisa Corner stall. Except that lam mee focuses more on the meat, while hokkien mee's focus is on the prawns. I had never thought of making hokkien mee myself, because of the chilli paste that is needed for it. However, looking at this lam mee recipe, I decided that I could give it a try, and that I would buy some pork ribs the following weekend, together with the prawns that I had already planned on buying.
But as luck would have it, on Monday we got a coronavirus scare at the office and were ordered to leave the office right before lunchtime, and to work from home till further notice. The "further notice" came as a directive to continue working from home as a self-quarantine for two weeks.
One of the foremost questions that came to mind was, what will I be eating during these two weeks? My fridge was almost empty, and the plan was to restock this weekend. Thanks to the ubiquity of delivery services, I can actually order food delivery every day. But firstly, it is rather costly, and secondly, I would get really tired of eating outside food every day.
So supermarket deliveries came to mind. I initially wanted to order Sunshine delivery, because I prefer Sunshine for their fruits' quality and cheaper price. But their fresh chicken was out of stock. (And of course I would need chicken for easily-reheatable meals!) So I went for Tesco instead. I booked my delivery slot on Tuesday, and the earliest available slot was on Thursday. I was lucky (or was I simply quick?) because my friends who tried ordering on Wednesday no longer had any available slots before Monday! The only (slight) disappointment with Tesco is that it doesn't deliver non-halal goods. Sunshine delivers wine as well, and I was planning on ordering a bottle so that I could use some in my bolognese.
Just a side note: Tesco allows us to update/cancel our order up till 11pm of the day before the delivery. So now I know, when in doubt, book the slot first, update the shopping list later!
My groceries arrived yesterday, so today (a working day) I made a simple lam mee with prawns and chicken. I boiled the soup in the morning and put it into my magic pot, so that at lunchtime I would only need to fry the egg and boil the noodles and veggies.
I actually used the prawn heads that I had from shelling my prawns, so that the soup would have a thicker prawn flavour, like the one from Pisa Corner. But the soup still tasted slightly bland...probably because I didn't use enough chicken. (I had to keep enough for the rest of the quarantine period!) But I had sambal in my fridge, so that helped with the taste.
I didn't have bean sprouts, and I wanted some veggies, so I put in a bit of leafy veggies instead. I even sliced up the stalks thinly to resemble bean sprouts :P
So this is how it looks:
I actually used angel hair pasta for the noodles.
Half-portions were left for dinner:
If you are observant, you will notice that the chicken is missing from the extra ingredients. This is because I had just fished the chicken out of the soup, and had shredded just enough for my lunch. I would shred the rest after eating!
Turns out that it is quite similar to hokkien mee, which explains the good prawny smell from the Pisa Corner stall. Except that lam mee focuses more on the meat, while hokkien mee's focus is on the prawns. I had never thought of making hokkien mee myself, because of the chilli paste that is needed for it. However, looking at this lam mee recipe, I decided that I could give it a try, and that I would buy some pork ribs the following weekend, together with the prawns that I had already planned on buying.
But as luck would have it, on Monday we got a coronavirus scare at the office and were ordered to leave the office right before lunchtime, and to work from home till further notice. The "further notice" came as a directive to continue working from home as a self-quarantine for two weeks.
One of the foremost questions that came to mind was, what will I be eating during these two weeks? My fridge was almost empty, and the plan was to restock this weekend. Thanks to the ubiquity of delivery services, I can actually order food delivery every day. But firstly, it is rather costly, and secondly, I would get really tired of eating outside food every day.
So supermarket deliveries came to mind. I initially wanted to order Sunshine delivery, because I prefer Sunshine for their fruits' quality and cheaper price. But their fresh chicken was out of stock. (And of course I would need chicken for easily-reheatable meals!) So I went for Tesco instead. I booked my delivery slot on Tuesday, and the earliest available slot was on Thursday. I was lucky (or was I simply quick?) because my friends who tried ordering on Wednesday no longer had any available slots before Monday! The only (slight) disappointment with Tesco is that it doesn't deliver non-halal goods. Sunshine delivers wine as well, and I was planning on ordering a bottle so that I could use some in my bolognese.
Just a side note: Tesco allows us to update/cancel our order up till 11pm of the day before the delivery. So now I know, when in doubt, book the slot first, update the shopping list later!
My groceries arrived yesterday, so today (a working day) I made a simple lam mee with prawns and chicken. I boiled the soup in the morning and put it into my magic pot, so that at lunchtime I would only need to fry the egg and boil the noodles and veggies.
I actually used the prawn heads that I had from shelling my prawns, so that the soup would have a thicker prawn flavour, like the one from Pisa Corner. But the soup still tasted slightly bland...probably because I didn't use enough chicken. (I had to keep enough for the rest of the quarantine period!) But I had sambal in my fridge, so that helped with the taste.
I didn't have bean sprouts, and I wanted some veggies, so I put in a bit of leafy veggies instead. I even sliced up the stalks thinly to resemble bean sprouts :P
So this is how it looks:
I actually used angel hair pasta for the noodles.
Half-portions were left for dinner:
If you are observant, you will notice that the chicken is missing from the extra ingredients. This is because I had just fished the chicken out of the soup, and had shredded just enough for my lunch. I would shred the rest after eating!
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