Simple home-cooked lunch!
Simple home-cooked lunch during confinement. Brown rice, stir-fried bean sprouts with cabbage, green-bean omelette, herbal pork soup.
Simple home-cooked lunch during the confinement period. 😋👍🏼
What was on the table:
- Brown rice: chosen over white for the extra fibre during recovery
- Stir-fried cabbage with bean sprouts and shredded tau pok: light, comforting, easy on digestion
- Green-bean omelette: chopped long beans folded into beaten egg, fried in a hot wok for that crispy edge
- Herbal pork soup: clear broth with pork pieces and red dates, the kind of mild post-natal tonic that goes down easy
The confinement food rotation skews mild for a reason. Strong flavours and excess oil sit heavy during recovery, so the cooking leans on broths, simple stir-fries, and a lot of pork-based herbal soups (dang gui, dong quai, red dates) that the older generation swears by for rebuilding strength.
The green-bean omelette is the trick dish here. Long beans diced fine, mixed with eggs, salt, a pinch of pepper, then a high-heat wok finish so the edges crisp without going dry. Cheap, fast, kid-friendly, and adds vegetable to a meal without extra preparation.
Overall: 4.5 / 5. 😋👍🏼 Honest home cooking. The kind of meal that recharges without taxing the body.
