cooking show

Just happened to watch a cooking show on TV (Channel 5) earlier this morning. Think the show's called "Ching's Kitchen" or smthg like that. So there was this cook, and her name is Ching He-Huang, and don't know where she comes from but she's staying in England. She has a chili factory where her employees are all Brits, and they were like busy chopping up chilies, cooking stuffs etc.

Anyway, she showed one recipe about how to make the sweet thai chili sauce from scratch combined with some homemade thai fishcake. Sounds interesting? I thought so too. So the sauce is really simple. Some boiling water (200 ml), combined with sugar (she said it was dunno how many grams but to me.. it looked like a lot!), and two chopped red chilies. Throw everything into boiling water and let it cook on low heat.

Next, how to make the fish cake. She chose salmon, so she cuts up the salmon block into smaller chunks and throw into blender. Next throw in some sugar (also looked like diabetic inducing amount), throw in some 2 tablespoon of fish sauce (finally some use here! heh heh), throw in one egg, throw in chopped corriander and chili, throw in two tablespoon of corn flour, some salt, some pepper, some lime juice and some salt (actually looked like quite a lot of salt). Next blend everything and then scoop out the paste and fry in a pan.

Here's the interesting part. While the fish cakes are frying, she went to attend to the sweet chili sauce that she was left cooking earlier. Put the sauce into a blender and blends it. Then pour out into a sauce dish. Next, she goes back to the fish cake to turn over to the other side. But, when she flips it over, the TV viewers were presented with... burnt fish cakes! *LOL* Imagine that, a cooking show where the stuffs are like burnt and its a deep brown chao tar kind! So she had to continue no matter what, and so she said, "I like my fish cakes crispy". That's ultimate! Muahahahaha!

If you like, you can catch the show on Saturday's, I think its around 8.30-9 or 9.30 am. Realized that England grocery shops do stock up on Asian sauces, as there were Lee Kum Kee's, Yeo's and other familiar brands shown.