Again this was my mum's recipe. I still have the small yellow enamel bowls passed down to me. You can buy the bowls from the chinese shops selling crockery but you can never get the yellow enamel ones anymore.
When you buy lo mai kai, the ingredients are very little but if you make it yourself, you can have chock-a-block of ingredients and it can be a meal by itself. My dear hubby can devour three bowls at one go.
Ingredients for rice
1 kg glutinous rice soaked overnight
2 or 3 chicken drumsticks deboned and cut into bite size
200 gms thinly sliced pork
chinese mushrooms soaked and sliced thinly
chinese sausages sliced thinly
4 tbsp oyster sauce
1 tbsp black soya sauce
1 tbsp minced garlic
1 tsp salt
2 tbsp oil
water for sprinkling
Marinade for chicken and pork
1 tbsp oyster sauce
1 tbsp black soya sauce
1 tbsp sesame oil
1 tsp sugar
1 tsp salt
1 tsp ginger salt (only add in before cooking)
1 tbsp cornflour
1 tbsp minced garlic (for frying only)
Use half portion of each of the above to season chicken and pork separately
Method for rice
Strain rice and discard water
Use non stick pan and heat oil, fry garlic
Add half portion of rice and fry till even coated with oil
Add half portion of soya sauce, oyster sauce, salt
Keep stirring and sprinkle a little water. After about 5 mins,
remove from pan and steam till rice is 90% cooked
Do the same for the other half of rice
Method for chicken and pork
Heat oil and fry sausage till fragrant, dish out
Heat oil, fry garlic, add mushrooms and fry
Add the mushroom water from the soaking
Cook till soft. remove from pan
Heat oil, fry minced garlic and fry chicken and pork individually, add a little water for gravy
Remove and get ready to assemble
Place a little of everything in bowl and top up with rice
Gently press down rice, add a little of the gravy from chicken and pork
Steam for 10 mins and its ready
Always remember to do a taste test
Always remember to do a taste test
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