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Serai Kitchen - Catering Homecook Malaysian Cuisine

Name: Serai Kitchen - Catering Homecook Malaysian Cuisine
Address: Ian Sage Avenue, Auckland, 0630, NZ
Telephone: 021 2763468
Price range: $$$
Rating: 5

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Serai Kitchen offers homecook Malaysian dishes. I love cooking and would love to share some of my favorite dishes. Try it! You won't be disappointed.
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Some of the dishes are from recipes from past generations that can't be found in restaurants.

01/06/2023

The month of June is when most Chinese household who knows how to prepare and wrap zongzi would start making zongzi. The variations of Zongzi are mainly from China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Family recipes also plays a part on the ingredients use to make zongzi.
For our family who has a Peranakan background from Malaka, our zongzi which we call as Nonya Chang is different. Here we use blue pea flower extract in our glutinous rice, melon sweet, coriander powder and lots of white pepper. The taste has a good balance of sweetness and spiciness. This is one of my favorite chang.
After so many years of watching my mum prepare and wrap (and I learning to wrap at the same time), I took the plunge to do it all on my own last weekend. Below is my result.
I have unintentionally made too much and have to sell them. If you wish to purchase any, please PM. It is pickup only. I am selling for $5 each. Currently, they are all stored in my freezer. I made these on 28th May.

01/06/2023

Hey, it has been a long time since I posted anything. But I am going to break my silence and will be posting regularly of my homecooked dishes.

16/06/2019

Homemade nasi lemak in banana leaf. 😋

11/10/2018

Jewel in Melaka nyonya food. A stall established besides the family home with the family ensuring the traditions of nyonya food being shared around.

11/10/2018

Spending time in Malacca to indulge in authentic Nonya cuisine.

03/06/2018

Mee Fan Kuih or Pan Mee. Made from pasta dough and torn apart to make the noodles. My favorite dish of all times. Had this at my mum's place for lunch today. She does it by tearing the pasta by hand. I do it with the pasta machine and pizza cutter to make it faster. Either way it still taste great. 😋😋

30/04/2018

21/04/2018

Welcome to my page of delicious homecook Malaysian food. I am offering all the dishes that are posted in this page.

If you would like to have any of the dishes offered please PM me by Saturday 9pm for pickup on Monday between 5:30 - 7pm.

All dishes is enough to feed 2 - 4 adults.
All meat dishes costs $14
All vegetable dishes costs $12
Fish curry (half of whole snapper) - $25

Note: the curry level of spiciness is Medium. But if you want spice level to be either Mild or Hot, please let me know in advance.

All meals need to be picked up each Monday between 6 - 7pm. If require pickup at other times please PM me in advance.

21/04/2018

Here is video on the curry chicken. Enjoy! 😍

19/04/2018

Nyonya Curry Chicken. It taste just as good as it looks. 😋😋

15/04/2018

Beef Rendang - this dish is just awesome in flavor and richness. Perfect compliment to go with nasi lemak.

13/04/2018

Malaysian Beef Stew - Perfect for the coming winter months. The richness of the gravy makes it all the more a comfort food for me. Yummm...

12/04/2018

Tangy & Sweet Beef Stir Fry with Broccoli. If you like Sweet and Sour Pork, then you might like this.

11/04/2018

Tofu with Mince Pork & Shiitake mushroom. If you have not tried tofu before because it is too plain and tasteless. Give this a go. The mince pork and shiitake mushroom gives all the flavor needed to have it with the fresh tofu.

11/04/2018

Chicken Ponteh - this dish has a sweetness of palm sugar and the saltiness from the preserved bean paste. It is one of the stable dish in most Malaysian household. The dish can also be cook using pork(which I prefer) because the fat from the pork gives the extra flavor.

10/04/2018

This is my favorite version of Chinese mix vegetables. It has wood fungus, shiitake mushroom, chinese cabbage, carrots, fried tofu and can use any in season vegetables.

10/04/2018

If you have not tried fresh tofu and thought it is too plain and tasteless, here is a version that I think you would love.
Fresh Tofu with mince pork and shiitake mushroom.

09/04/2018

Something about Nyonya cuisine...
Nyonya cuisine came about between the 15th to 17th century when Chinese migrated to Penang, Malacca, Singapore and Indonesia to work on tin and coal mines. Some of the men settled and married the local Malay women. The intermarriage of Chinese and Malay is then called Peranakan Chinese also known as Baba for men and Nyonya for women.

The fusion of Malay spices and Chinese style cooking created a distinct type of food that is tangy, aromatic, spicy and herbal. Some of the key ingredients of Nyonya cooking are galangal(wild ginger), lemon grass, candlenut, shrimp paste(belacan), coconut milk, cinnamon, star anise, clove, palm sugar(Gula Malaka), pandan leaf(Pandanus amaryllifolius) and tamarind paste.

Typical dishes that I usually cook at home are Chicken Ponteh, Chicken and Potato Stew in salted bean gravy, Nyonya Mee Siam, Pineapple Curry, Sour Creamy Prawn and Pinapple Curry, Curry Laksa, Assam Laksa(hot and sour version), Nyonya Chicken Curry, Beef Rendang, Nasi Lemak, Kapitan Chicken Curry, Mixed Vegetable Nyonya style and many more. Some of the dishes would take half a day to prepare like the Assam Laksa and Beef Rendang as it needs preparation of cooking stock and preparing spices. Most of the Nyonya dishes requires at least 5 key ingredients and more. Hence the preparation time is quite long. But I do not mind as I enjoy both the preparation and cooking the dishes.

Below are some images of ingredients and dishes - Tamarind Prawns, Paiti, traditional sweet cakes, Assam Laksa, and Chicken Ponteh.

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Ian Sage Avenue
Auckland
0630

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021 2763468

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Nyonya Curry Chicken

Here is video on the curry chicken. Enjoy! 😍

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Catering Homecook Malaysian Cuisine

I am from Malaysia and would love to share homecook Malaysian dishes with you. Malaysian cuisine has been become more popular over the years. But not many is familiar with Malaysian Nyonya dishes(Peranakan food). There are few Nyonya eatery in Auckland as well. If you would like try something different for your weekly meals, try this out. I will be catering once a week for Monday meals. My service will start from 23rd April 2018. Check out my post for upcoming meals.

Most of my dishes are more inclined to Nyonya food. My grandparents are from Malacca and I grew up eating mostly traditional Nyonya dishes. Some of my recipes are hand me down from my grandmother to my mother and now me. The dishes that are being showcase in my posts cannot be found in Malaysian restaurants. So if you are wanting to try something different and can handle a bit of heat from the chilli, give it a try. I guarantee you will love it. The spice level is medium heat(spice level can be adjusted to either mild to super spicy - just let me know in advance). Not all dishes are spicy. Some of the nyonya dishes most common ingredients are palm sugar, cinnamon, star anise, lemon grass, whole clove, coriander seeds, tumeric, tamarind paste, coconut milk and lastly the pungent smell of belacan - shrimp paste(which we only use a tiny bit to bring out the depth of the dish).

I use whole spices and mix the spices to make the spice paste. I do not use the ready made spice packets you find in Asian grocery store. I only use fresh ingredients and in season. Occasionally I will feature fried noodles and fried rice as well that is cooked slightly different from the restaurants.

The dishes prepared are the same dishes I prepare for my family every week. We have our favorites as well which I will share in time. I hope my posts will inspire you to try new dishes for your weekly meals.