Toast Box's Asian Delights Ready-to-cook Pastes

{ADVERTORIAL} Cooking Mee Siam with Toast Box’s Asian Delights Ready-to-cook Mee Siam Paste

As a total amateur to cooking, I picked up basic cooking whilst watching youtube videos after my wedding as it is impossible for me to eat outside food / rely on my mom to cook my meals on a daily basis. Eating home-cooked food is a much healthier and affordable option as compared to eating out.

Hence I was really glad when Toast Box decided to send me their new Asian Delights Ready-to-cook Pastes for me to experiment with 😀

Parcel from Toast Box 🙂

In a bid to celebrate #SG50, Toast Box has launched their Asian Delights Ready-to-cook pastes in 4 flavours – Mee Rebus, Mee Siam, Curry Chicken and Singapore Laksa. This might be a good news to those who are desperately looking for cooking cheats / hacks or residing abroad and wanted to have a taste of home.

Each packet is retailing only at SGD6.50, except for the Mee Rebus @ SGD6.80.

They are readily available at Toast Box outlets island wide except Queenstown MRT and Wisma Atria B1.

Mee Siam

 

Toast Box Asian Delights Ready-to-cook Mee Siam Paste

I choose to attempt making Mee Siam with the ready-to-cook paste as the instructions seemed to be fairly simple.

Mee Siam is one of our local delights and is also of a Malay origin. It consists of Vermicelli served with spicy, sweet and sour light gravy made from a rempah spice paste, tamarind and salted soy bean. Mee Siam is usually garnished with bean sprouts, garlic chives, and lime wedges.

Before making my Mee Siam, I went to GIANT Supermart for some grocery shopping 🙂

Grocery Shopping @ GIANT

According to the package insert, the additional ingredients needed are:

1. Bean Sprouts 40g

2. Dried Beancurd 1pc

3. Fresh Prawn 3 pcs

4. Fresh Beancurd 1pc

5. Hard Boild Eggs 2pcs

6. Tomatoes 2 pcs

7. Calamansi 2 pcs

8. Chives half stalk

I did not stick to the instructions fully as I dislike Prawns and Dried Beancurd.

Hence below are the ingredients I bought from GIANT to be used to make my version of Mee Siam 🙂

Ingredients Used

I opted for Brown Rice Vermicelli as I feel that it is a healthier variation to the usual rice vermicelli we normally eat. Also, I love eating silky tofus and hence I will be using Unicurd’s Silken Tofu 😀

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Video Tutorial

To cut the long story short, you may watch my video tutorial below 🙂

Steps:

1. Pre-soak Rice Vermicelli in Warm Water

2. Wash vegetables – I’m using a Veggie Wash in order to wash off any pesticides / wax coated on my veggies. You can purchase the wash from Cold Storage.

3. Mix a packet of the Ready-to-cook Mee Siam Paste with 600g water and 2 sliced tomatoes and stir continuously until boil. I added my diced tofus and finely chopped chives to the boiling mixture afterwards 🙂

4. Strain the vermicelli as they would’ve softened at this stage.

5. Remove the top layer oil from the boiled Mee Siam paste mixture earlier and place it into a frying pan.

6. Stir-fry vermicelli with the top layer oil extracted earlier.

7. Serve your Mee Siam with the remaining gravy together with limes and hard-boiled eggs

 

Le’ Final Product – Aldora’s MEE SIAM!!!

Review

We both felt that the paste lacked the spicy taste but it is indeed sour enough for Mee Siam.

I had a sense of achievement that I can actually cooked Mee Siam on my own so effortlessly (with the help of Toast Box Mee Siam paste of course)!

Mee Siam

Toast Box’s SG50 Promotions

From 8 July – 10 August 2015

• SGD0.50 off – Any Asian Delights Ready-to-cook paste (UP SGD6.50 – 6.80)
• SGD5 off – Coffee Brew and Coffee Powder Set (UP SGD27.90)
• Purchase a box of any 4 packets of Asian Delight Ready-to-cook paste at only SGD25 (UP SGD26 – SGD27.20)

 

 

 

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