Beef Brisket with Ginger Broth

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Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Cheong Liew: Inside My Food

By David Sly and Cheong Liew

Published 2025

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This is a great Chinese dish that Cheong first experienced in Kuala Lumpur’s Pudu car park food court. Incredibly, a famous local chef had left a big hotel restaurant to have this stall with only four tables – and you had to book months in advance for his seven-course banquet.

Method

It was just him, dressed in a Hawaiian shirt, and his wife in the kitchen, with one girl serving – it was very cool. To start the evening, we were given this rich gingery beef broth with garlic chives and Chinese rice wine. It had almost as much ginger as beef – but it was so refreshing and uplifting.

The ginger