Mock Fried Carrot Cake

Did i mention that carrot cake is also one of my comfort food?
Incidentally The Wife likes the white version while i prefer the black.

When i was much younger and staying with my paternal grandma, she'd pamper me with fried carrot cake from ghimmoh market pretty much every other day. it's simply breakfast in the dunno-much-abt-calories days and together with youtiao, soya bean milk, they make up some fond memories. it's a really simple hawker dish, steamed daikon flour cake and eggs, not like these days with the extra prawns and what nots.

so what happens when you haven't gotten round to figure out how to make daikon flour cake n u r craving for this dish? then must be creative lah. so here's my non-carbo, hi protein version. i used what's readily available in most asian kitchen for this adaptation that serves 2-3.

ingredients

• slab of tofu (not the silken kind, and not tau kwah type...those with texture somewhere in between). you dun want too much cos later it tastes too tofu-bean-y. cut the tofu to small cubes
  
• 3 eggs
• pepper
  
• fish sauce (not optional. add to taste)
• chai por (preserved turnips, also not optional. add to taste)
• small portion of chopped garlic (optional...)
• spring onion (finely chopped, use as garnish. optional. i dun have in fridge today so i used dried parsley instead)
  
• cooking oil

recipe

• heat non-stick pan/wok at medium heat, brown the chaipor + garlic. you shld be able to smell the fragrance of the chaipor
  
• add tofu and fry with the chaipor+garlic. try to brown the tofu a lil too
  
• drizzle fish sauce and fry till you can smell the fragrance of the sauce
• keep pan at medium heat. beat eggs with dash of pepper, more fish sauce (optional) and add to tofu-chaipor mix
• wait till 1 side is browning and edges are crisping, then flip to fry the other side. you may turn up the heat to create faster browning
  
• serve with garnish when cooked

You'll get a slightly springier texture cos of the tofu, but you should get the fried omelette fragrance that comes with the chaipor n fish sauce. Glad The Wife likes this version. now i got to google on how to make the daikon cake......