Shanghai Cucumber Salad

This is simply the easiest salad to make as a condiment a rice meal with meat or seafood.


Ingredients
2-3 medium Japanese cucumber
2 cloves of garlic finely chopped
2 tbsp sesame oil
2-3 tbsp red chillies
half tsp salt
pepper
1 tbsp sugar
Optional
2 tbsp chopped coriander


Directions
Cut cucumber into cubes (bite size) and mix the salad. Serve..

Variations
1. Peranakan-Nyonya style
Add 3-4 fried dried anchovies (fine type) or thinly sliced fried ikan kurau.
2. Javanese style
Add 3 tbsp sliced red shallots & 1tbsp ABC sweet soy sauce. Exclude the sesame oil.