Asian Food

Ngoh Hiang – 5 Spice Meat Roll

August 29, 2012

Ngoh Hiang or Five Spice Meat Roll, I have discovered, is a staple home cooked specialty dish for many of us here in Singapore during festive occasions like Chinese New Year. Chinese New Year for me as a kid was a frenzy of quick visitations at relatives and friends’ houses. During those days, efficient highways [...]

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Penang Char Kuey Teow & Clove Hall

June 3, 2012

Penang is one of my favourite weekend getaway with L for a few reasons. It is easily accessible from either Singapore or Kuala Lumpur with great food and a general relaxed old world charm. I have found the island to be a place of few retail temptations which is just as well for that leaves [...]

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Aiyu Jelly / Ice Jelly (爱玉冻／文头雪）

May 5, 2012

Bubble milk tea which originated from Taiwan, came and went… and came back again. This time round, they appear to have polished up their act significantly and are determined to make this new beverage culture sustainable. Apart from better quality tea leaves, they have also started to offer products which would appeal to the more [...]

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Fried Rice With Spam and Parboiled Rice

April 14, 2012

Welcome to the first post at my new address! My migration process to this new site felt strangely similar to what I had experienced when I shifted into my new apartment almost 7 years ago. After deciding on the address, I then started working on the ‘floor plan’ of the website, doodling for months, deciding [...]

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Steamed Prawns With Egg White and Chinese Wine

February 23, 2012

This is my second attempt to deplete the egg whites left over from my Lapis cake. Baking 6 Pistachio Dacquoise cookies did not quite help to make a dent in my bowl of egg whites and I desperately want to move away from sweets and butter for a short while.This is a very handy recipe for seafood preparation [...]

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Seafood Rice Congee

January 25, 2012

When I was younger, Chinese New Year holidays was exceptional, quite unlike the other festivals or public holidays that we knew. For one thing, we got to wear new clothes (yes, it was a big deal. We never used to buy new clothes all the time like the way we do now) , feast on [...]

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Prune Kueh Lapis – Spekkoek

January 21, 2012

I do not remember eating this during Chinese New Year when I was young. In fact, I do not remember ever eating this during my early schooling days…. Then one day, it found its way into our household, and we’ve never been without it during Chinese New Year ever since… Initially, this (as with many [...]

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Fish Head Bee Hoon – 鱼头米粉

July 31, 2010

I cooked Fish Head Bee Hoon for dinner today. It tasted so good that I am beginning to believe that I can actually cook…. Food bloggers like us – we cook at home, we have cookbooks, we watch cooking programs and we attend cooking classes – everyone of us, I suppose, fancy ourselves as a [...]

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Black Glutinous Rice With Durian

July 8, 2010

Among the rice eating community here in Asia, the Japanese are possibly the ones who pays the most attention and dedication to the types and quality of rice they consume. The myriad of Japanese rice varieties available at the Japanese supermarkets fascinates me. A couple of months ago, I bought 3kg of Japanese short grain [...]

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Soon Kueh – Turnip Dumpling / Bamboo Shoots Dumpling 笋粿

May 28, 2010

One of the highlights of my recent vacation trip in Taiwan was to visit the morning wet market. As we wandered down the single street market at Shuanglian (双莲市场) I felt like a little girl who has just wandered into a candy shop… I could feel my eyes glinting at the wide spread of fresh vegetables, fruits and seafood. At [...]