Lo mai gai, the Malaysian style
Lo mai gai 糯米雞 is a classic dim sum dish served during yum cha (tea time) in Chinese society of Malaysia. Literal English translations can be "steamed sticky rice with chicken".
If you search thru Internet, you will find different versions of it due to locality differences.
In Malaysia, it is a Chinese cuisine with the common ingredients of glutinous rice, chinese mushroom, egg, shallot, chicken, dark and light soya sauce, oyster sauce and ground pepper. The cooking process need to go thru stir fry then steam in bowls which easily can take up ~2 hours preparing and cooking time.
As I am not a meat eaters (seafood is ok for me), I normally replace chicken with prawns for myself. Thus, if you are joining me for a tea time, you may request Vegetarians* or Halal** version.
* tofu version (let me know if eggs are not ok for you too)
** prawn version
Looking forward to welcome you to my teatime table.
About Sujata
love art, music and travel. typical Sagittarius who will pick up the backpack and on the go whenever feel like to. live life as a globetrotter. uses pen and hand to collect moments along the journey. uses food to share Asian culture to the world.* born in Johor, Malaysia. spent >20years in Penang, M...
love art, music and travel. typical Sagittarius who will pick up the backpack and on the go whenever feel like to. live life as a globetrotter. uses pen and hand to collect moments along the journey. uses food to share Asian culture to the world.* born in Johor, Malaysia. spent >20years in Penang, Malaysia. after Arizona, Tainan and Osaka, currently mobile reside in Bydgoszcz, Poland. future? we shall see
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Katie
Sujata's cooking really brightened up our grey February. Everything was delicious, and we all had a very pleasant evening together.
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