Vegetarian Dishes

Vegetarian dishes are our normal diet in our household. We are not vegetarian but we consume lots of vegetable, low meat diet except for fishes. During first day of Chinese New Year we will cook one big serving of vegetarian dish for the day. In our Buddhist center we always cook vegetarian dishes for the public and Sunday school children. The normal fried mee or meehoon always taste great even though it is cook with only cabbages. On 12th August, we are celebrating ' hungry ghost festival' in our center and we volunteer to cook two dishes and another member Bro. HW Tan will cook another two dishes in the center. Our cooking is simple but it always taste nice maybe because lots of "compassion" ingredient added to it.

We have been cooking vegetarian dishes like preserve vegetable such as "harm choy", "mui choy", "char choy" and all the different "choy" (vegetable in Chinese). Sometimes we have to plan what vegetable dishes to cook especially for more than 150 persons. Our normal Sunday School children and parents already more than 80 persons. My mother-in-law (Sis Kam) will be in charge of cooking and I will be in charged of buying the vegetable and discuss with her what and how to cook them.













Chinese cabbages sliced into big pieces and cooked with 'tow pok' and lots of gingers pounded with black beans. Another dish is 'yaw mak tam' cooked with ginger slices and 'foo yee'.
Bro. HW Tan prepared a curry vegetables (brinjal, long bean, lady fingers, potatoes) and 'tow foo' dish which he fried the cinnimon stick and five star and simmer the five types of 'tow foo' with black sauces and mushrooms. It tasted like 'bak ku teh' without the 'bak' (meat).

Our popular vegetarian dishes which we always prepare for our center are:-
1) 'mui choy'/peanuts/'foo chok'/dried chili
2) 'harm choy'/'tow pok'/tomatoes/chili sauces
3) pumpkin/yam
4) 'kei chee'/'kam cham'/'mok yee'/'foo chok' & chinese cabbage
5) turnip slices/carrot slices/'foo chok'
6) potatoes/curry powder
7) 'tow pok'/ginger pounded with black beans

Most of the green vegetables fried with ginger, vegetarian sauce or 'foo yee'. No garlic is use because some vegetarian cannot take garlic. All the cooking are simple yet taste good.

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