Chai Booi

What is ''Chai Booi" (hokkien) / "Choi Kiut" (Cantonese)? KL ppl called it as 'Suen Lat Choi" (Sour Spicy Vege). Is my favourite dish, actually is my family members favourite dish... yummy...

I just got 1 pot of "Choi Kiut" delivered from Taiping, cooked by my eldest sister, delivered by my 2nd sister while she took a trip back to Taping last week. As she borrowed my car , so she got to drop by my house on the day she returned to KL. hehehe.... So what I did is called my eldest sis... (she is a great chef). And asking what is she cooking on sunday and I want to ta pao...kekeke... Suppose to just ta pao a bit and bring back for me. But my sis took the whole pot back for me and they had dinner in my hse when they reached KL....

Choi Kiut is actually cooked by leftover food (meat/vege), together with the 'Kai choi' and assam skin and assam water, and dried chili. You got to make sure the leftover food is enough, else the taste will be not that tasty. Even I know how to cook this dish, but my eldest sis cooking is still the best for all of us!!! Everytime we go back hometown, our sweeet sweet hometown, we will ordered 'food' from my eldest sis and go to her hse to enjoy it... wahahaha...

In my family, my mom normally will cook the 'choi kiut' on 3rd day of CNY, as there will be leftover food on eve and 2nd day of CNY. Everyone of us will holding big bowl of 'choi kiut' with white rice... yes... big bowl of 'choi kiut' for each. And of coz I need to help my mom to clean the 'vege' that she used to buy a lot of that... One of my best fren, will come visit me on 3rd day and she will definately ask me 'your mom got cook choi kiut today??" ... haha.. YES, she is having lunch with me with the Choi Kiut.. we will chat and enjoy the choi kiut... not sure she still miss my mom choi kiut or not, as she been to spore for quite some years and we have not meet up since few yrs ago :(

In facts, nowadays a lot of people had forgottan their tradisional food and how to cook it. Especially the young generation, I will try my best to learn all those 'food' and transfer to my daughter or 'dotta in law' next time..(think too much, my son only 4 yrs old, coming to 5 next yr)...hahaha...