Sweet and sour pork

This is on its way to becoming a blog for food. To celebrate Chinese New Year, I decided to be bold and try cooking sweet and sour pork. Shouldn't be too hard right? Just coat the pork with some flour and fry them; make the sauce and just stir fry it together with the pork!

It was a good thing my room mate wasn't around, because it would be so xia suay to let him see the oil keep splashing around the stove. My pot wasn't completely dry when I put the oil in. Haha, lesson learnt - ALWAYS dry your pot when putting lots of oil in it.

The pork was marinated with a bit of salt, a a quarter of a lemon, a bit of soy sauce, and coated with flour. The sauce was ketchup, water, sugar, vinegar, a quarter of a lemon, and half an onion. Everything went according to plan except that the pot was too small for all my pork, so the pieces were not really separated, and the flour did not really stick well. But it was no problem with me, as long as they tasted good. :)

Sweet and sour pork

This was taken with my phone, cos I was very hungry, and I wanted to send it to my sis via MSN immediately, so the colour did not turn out as nice. I think there was too much ketchup, but I LIKE IT! It was good. The texture resembles the version you can get from the Engine Canteen in NUS, which I always order if they are selling it. So I'm extremely satisfied with myself. Tomorrow I will not deep fry it anymore, because cleaning up is too troublesome. Instead, I will just season the meat and stir fry it, then add the sauce.

Now I've got to shower and do my assignment that is due tomorrow. Still have to read through the textbook to know what the topic is about first. Jia lat la..

And here is the picture of me drinking the flaming vodka. It was burning I tell you.. And this will be a CNY eve I won't forget. Haha.. HUAT AH!!!