Chilli Crab - Mum Cooks

I love chilli crab but I don’t really enjoy eating it outside. It’s always so messy and the sauces will be dripping from the fingers. It is a waste not to lick the fingers but it is also not so pleasing to lick the fingers in public. Dilemma, always. And the clumsy me may have the crab claw, shell or sauce flying all over and stain my clothes or others.

So I really love it when my mum cooks this. I can eat it as carefree as I want at home. I don’t cook this myself as I don’t dare to ‘silence’ the crabs. So we devised this plan of bringing my mum and the crabs to our house for this filming. And this gets us to think of a new series - Mum cooks. We will get my mum to cook a few more dishes and we will film her cooking them.

Chilli Crab

Delicious and Simple Chicken Rice One-Pot-Rice

Chicken rice is the most popular local hawker food in Singapore. Almost every hawker centre will have at least one stall selling this. Some stalls score well in the chicken and some in the flavoured rice and some in the sauces. Regardless of the scores, most Singaporeans just can’t get enough of this. It’s a comforting plate of food.

We love a good plate of chicken rice. But we couldn’t go out during the Circuit Breaker (lockdown) last year and didn’t want to pay for food delivery. So we attempted to cook this at home using a rice cooker. We used secrets shared by some chicken rice stall owners and improvised and cooked it using a rice cooker. The flavour turns out to be fantastic, especially the rice. I have shared this on my Instagram and many have tried it and love it. Some told me that they've cooked this many many times as her family can't get enough of it.

Chicken rice