Charlie Chan Chicken Pasta (Yellow Cab)

I haven’t tried cooking this yet though I’m glad that someone had the recipe revealed online. I’m actually craving by just typing this recipe. Yummy!

Ingredients

• 1 whole boneless chicken breast
• 1/3 cup olive oil
• 3 tablespoons sesame oil
• 1 piece onion
• 2 garlic cloves
• 1 1/4 tablespoons char siu sauce (Lee Kum Kee)
• 1/4 teaspoon chilli-garlic sauce
• 9 tablespoons oyster sauce
• 1/8 cup sugar
• 4 tablespoons water
• 1 kg cooked pasta
• peanuts (optional)

Directions:

1) Saute 1 piece onion and 2 cloves garlic in a little olive oil.

2) Cook 1 whole boneless chicken breast until brown.

3) Mix 3 tbsp sesame oil, 1 1/4 Lee Kum Kee Char Siu sauce, 9 tbsp oyster sauce, 1/4 chili garlic sauce, 1/8 cup sugar in a bowl.

3) Add mixture to chicken and simmer for a few minutes.

4) Pour in 1 kg pasta.

5) Add peanuts. (optional)

Leche flan

Definition by Merriam Webster Dictionary Online

Pronunciation: \ˈflan, ˈfläⁿn\

Function: noun

Etymology: French, from Old French flaon, from late Latin fladon-, flado flat cake, of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German flado flat cake

a: an open pie containing any of various sweet or savory fillings

b: custard baked with a caramel glaze

Leche flan

Ingredients:

egg yolk

caramelized sugar

evaporated milk

condensed milk

vanilla

Note: A molder and steamer are needed to cook this. Cooking time: 15-20 minutes depending on the thickness of your flan. To check if it is cook already, dip a wooden toothpick or fork. There should be no debris or cake clinging on the toothpick to determine if the flan is cook already.

This is the best leche flan I have ever tasted, not because I made it! The recipe was my mom’s which was handed from generation to generation. Ugly Betty has several episodes mentioning “the flan”. But in our hometown it is referred completely as “leche flan”. There is one episode wherein Amanda was ravishing plate after plate of the home made flan of Betty’s father, Ignacio. I do wonder, do all Mexicans like flans? As for now, I will not reveal the secret recipe but for the meantime, the main ingredients are listed above.