Steamed Pork in Prawn Paste is a dish that is close to my heart. I was away from home for a long time. When I finally returned, this was one of the first dishes that my mother cooked for me. It tasted especially heart-warming as she got up in the middle of the night to prepare and cook it for me.

Despite being the Executive Chef of Eighteen Chefs, I yearn for the simplicity of home-cooked food. This is a very simple dish to make with ingredients that are easily available from neighbourhood shops and markets. As a Singaporean Chinese, I love my rice and this dish is just the perfect accompaniment to a bowl of good steamed white rice.

I chose to share this recipe for its simplicity as I would like to show that good food can also be simple, as long as one puts care and thought into whatever he makes.