Baked Stingray and Sambal Four Angled Beans
It was days before Chinese New Year. Sis and I just arrive in our hometown, and we are on ourselves to find dinner. Fearing the price jack up and all that, we decided to play safe by visiting the neighbourhood hawker center, and once there, sis started pimping this stall selling baked fish and stir fried vegetables, praising the food sky high.
I couldn’t agree more. They were the best four angled beans stir fried with sambal that I’ve ever tasted! The tangy sambal flavour, the crunchy to the bite bean, and the serving on banana leaves gives the perfect texture, taste and aroma to the dish. To top that off, the beans were not tough to chew, unlike some places where the beans were tough to chew due to the incorporation of some old, tough beans along with the tender shoots.
Equally sinful were their baked stingray. Slathered in tangy, sourish and slightly spicy sauce very much like the Portuguese grilled fish sauce, this grilled fish is still juicy to the bite, and the sauce is just perfect to go with hot, fluffy white rice.
We polished off the dishes in a jiffy, which is a surprise given that we are not fish persons at all! In times like these I just felt that, 9 out of 10 times, hawker food rawks simply because they are good, cheap and no frills!
Viva la hawker food!
Er, but its harder to take photos in hawker center due to their awful lighting, and the photos didn’t do the food justice. LOL!
