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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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Legumes Soup With Reblochon

July 26, 2012

First, I need to apologise to all those who had left comments and inquiries at @kokken the last few weeks. I had been out on business trip followed by my hiking vacation in the Alps and had limited access to wifi or internet. Anyhow, as you can see, I am back and although I had [...]

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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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Fusilli Pasta With Broccoli and Anchovy Sauce

May 29, 2012

My weekend in Venice opened my eyes to the magical elements of Europe. Italy, in particular is possibly the only European country where I have spent a proper holiday. My longest vacation was a week long break in Rome many years ago. The rest of my European expeditions, may it be Paris, Munich or Amsterdam [...]

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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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Creamy Mushroom Pasta With Sausage

March 28, 2012

As you may already suspect by now, I love pasta – it may even be safe to say that I enjoy all food Italian. I had concluded many years ago when I visited Rome twice in a short span of 3 months, that one has to be really unlucky to get bad food in Italy. [...]

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Spaghetti With Creamy Garlic Prawns

March 13, 2012

Pin It This one is for the serious aromatic lovers – garlic, leek and parsley- this recipe has it all in generous portions. I am thankful that I am not allergic to to any of the aromatic vegetables. I have a colleague in Italy who is allergic to garlic and I don’t know how he [...]

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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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Crispy Golden Prawns With Lemon Mayonnaise

January 15, 2012

The Chinese culture is most particular about celebrating auspiciousness. For a happy occasion like the Chinese New Year that celebrates a new beginning, we are even more mindful about surrounding ourselves with auspicious symbols. When I was young, we were not allowed to sweep the floor on New Year’s Day, for fear that we would [...]