another cooking experiment

tadaa....another experiment learned from andrin's blog. it's a super simple dish. after putting the mushroom for around 10-15 min in warm water (till it soften for me to cut into thin slices, but not too long until the water drawn all the flavor out =.= once i soaked it for...6-7 hours...and you know what happened...) then soak it in some sauce and add bit sugar or oyster sauce.

andrin wrote that instead of just putting the ingredients on top of the tofu, she sliced them up and sandwiched the mushroom and some other stuffs. hence i cut the tofu and tried to stuff things nicely *shy* then grabbed some dried prawn. instinct told me to crush them up and sprinkle them instead of putting salt. add some spring onion on top, steam for a while, then served with oyster sauce :)

*i tried to cut spring onion as thin as possible to make it looks like thin vegie inspired by what a chef done at a restaurant but *shy* i suppose it requires lots practice though! when it gets too thin, the leaf will curl up by itself! maybe it is my wrong hand move or knife move or what i have yet to figure out... btw the spring onion is the freshest you could find on this earth! coz we grown it at our balcony and i just run out to grab some from the pot hehehheheh. what a bliss!*

my mistake here i think is that...okay obviously it is not prettily cut out, and also maybe i should throw away the steam water collected at the base of the plate. and also when i pour the oyster sauce, since it was two rows so i poured both and it turns out to be too salty #____#

but! the idea of slicing the tofu made the sauce travel downward easier and also easier for spoon to reach each slices together with -rather equally spread out- sauce and mushrooms :) genius!

and the dried prawn works! next time i will crush it finer and mix it with the mushroom 1st rather than sprinkle them after i stuff the mushroom.

thanks dad for your ever encouraging words! my future husband owes you alot!