Lomi Noodle Soup made Simple

Across from my house is a small Chinese grocery store that sells cooking ingredients and some prepared food items. I bought some siomai dumplings and saw packages of Lomi noodles inside the cooler so I decided to try making this brand of noodle soup fro a change.

Ingredients:
  1/2 kilo Lomi noodles (soaked in water for 30 mins)
  1 breast of chicken
  1/2 cup of chopped celery
  1/2 cup of chopped carrots
  1/2 cup of chopped onions
  6 siomai dumplings
  1 tspn salt
  1 tspn chicken powder
  3 tblspns soy
  1 egg beaten
  2 tblsns corn starch
  1 tblsn white pepper
  1 lemon or calamansi

Directions:
In a pot, boil the chicken breast with 3 to 4 cups of water. Add salt and chicken powder, carrots, onions, and celery and turn the heat to medium. After 40 minutes, remove chicken breast and dice and put back in the pot. Add the Lomi noodles, siomai. After about 10 minutes, in a cup, add cornstarch and mix with half a cup of water and pour into the soup until it thickens. Add the egg while stirring. Add the soy and the lemon to taste.

Chicken Adobo with Yellow Ginger (Tumeric)

Coming back from a trip to Tagaytay, I chanced upon a  roadside fruit stand  where I bought some pineapples and the vendor offered to sell me some yellow ginger while explaining the health benefits of this root crop. I began to experiment by using the root plus the pineapple I purchased and came up with chicken adobo. Here is the recipe:

Ingredients:
  1 kilo chicken (chopped)
  1 cup apple cider vinegar
  1/4 cup soy
  1 slice pineapple (chopped)
  3 cloves garlic
  1 tspn black pepper
  1 tspn salt
  1 yellow ginger sliced thin
  2 cups water

Directions:
In a pot, mix all the ingredients and heat to a boil. After boiling for 10 minutes, put the heat on medium for 40 to 45 minutes until liquid is reduced and oil is formed from the chicken fat. Turn off heat and chicken is ready to serve.