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Ingredients: 1/2 kilo pork shoulder or belly 1 medium sized old cucumber 1/4 cup peanut 3 tbsp fish sauce 3-4 pieces dried red dates Video below: How to cook this Simple, Tasty and Crunchy Old Cucumber, Pork & Peanut Soup Easy Recipe Old Cucumber, Pork & Peanut Soup Easy Recipe  VERDICT WILL:  I am always a huge fan of hot soups in Singapore. Since Singapore is a melting pot there are many varieties to choose from. Old cucumber soup is one of my favourite.  When looking how to cook that meal, I am astonished for the ingredients. The dried squid and anchovies is quite pricey here in SG so for this stewed meal be on budget, we improvised. Instead of dried seafood we put on the umami taste of fish sauce. If there’s no old cucumber can be found (which we found that day) we can use carrot. And we can skip the dates too.  What is the taste? I will always crave for this kind soup! It has a feast of flavours! Saltiness from fish sauc...

Ingredients: 250g minced pork 1 large firm tofu 1 medium carrot (minced) 3 stalks green onion (chopped) 3 cloves garlic (minced) 3 eggs All purpose flour Salt and pepper Sesame oil Remove excess water from the tofu by squeezing it. In a bowl, combine the pork, tofu, carrots, garlic, green onions and an egg. Mix them well and add salt and pepper to taste. Put a dash of sesame oil. Mold into patties and cover them in flour. Beat the two remaining eggs and dip the patties before frying them in low heat. We want to maintain the yellow color. Serve. VERDICT WILL:  In this kind of situation, we need to think how to save as much as we can without the affecting the flavour of the food. In this recipe, Abbey used tofu as extender to the patty. Well, what can we say? Tofu really does the magic.  Dip it in to a ketchup and chili sauce, who wil say that almost 3/4 of the patty is made of tofu and not pork meat? Hehe.  Enjoy your ...