In case you crave heritage dishes however are too busy to prepare dinner from scratch, get the frozen ready-to-eat merchandise from Gim Tim. Widespread gadgets are Braised Pork Stomach ($14.80), Hakka Abacus Seeds ($11.80) and Salted Kampong Hen ($17.80), which make fairly luxurious meals at house and are befitting of festive feasting.
Based in 1975, Gim Tim began as a catering enterprise after which expanded to a restaurant which specialises in Hokkien and Cantonese dishes. It moved to its present premises at Ang Mo Kio Avenue 4 in 1989.
The frozen merchandise are ready by cooks on the restaurant and supply loads of worth. All you could do is reheat the meals based on the directions.
Salted Kampong Hen comes as a complete rooster which must be thawed after which steamed for quarter-hour. It’s best to cut it up because the meat, whereas nonetheless springy, is just not smooth sufficient to drag aside with a serving spoon. To get it extra tender, steam the rooster longer.
Don’t discard the liquid on the backside of your steaming dish because it goes properly with plain rice. You may as well drizzle it over the rooster.
The rooster – marinated with a bunch of spices together with sand ginger powder, black cardamom, star anise and bay leaf – is fragrant and flavoursome with out the spices overwhelming the meat’s pure flavour.
Braised Pork Stomach is available in six items and with six buns. I may style the 5 spice powder, oyster sauce and soya sauce within the gravy. The buns don’t include reheating directions, however after thawing, steam them for 2 to 3 minutes.
What requires a bit of extra work to reheat are the Hakka Abacus Seeds. The directions say to boil the seeds for 10 seconds, however I accomplish that for nearly a minute till they’re floating. Then add a tablespoon of oil to a non-stick pan, throw within the minced meat combination, abacus seeds and sauce. There appears to be an excessive amount of liquid within the sauce, however you should utilize excessive warmth to scale back it.
I can style yam within the abacus seeds, whereas the sliced cuttlefish and dried prawn lend savoury seafood flavours. I just like the crunch from the black fungus strips. My solely gripe is the tasteless dried beancurd strips, which I’d have most popular to be disregarded.
One other prime vendor is Deep-fried Prawn Dumplings ($16.80). Thaw them and put them within the air-fryer for quarter-hour. The superbly golden beancurd pores and skin is simply too salty, however the filling has good crunch from coarsely chopped items of water chestnut.
Extra filling could possibly be used or the rolls may be wrapped extra tightly so the filling doesn’t style like it’s missing.
The place: 01-546, Block 157 Ang Mo Kio Avenue 4
Information: To order, go to this web site. There may be islandwide supply, with supply prices starting from $8 to $15. Self-collection is from 11am to 9pm.