easy home recipes with an asian twist
South East Asian deliciousness
It’s getting cold by the day. A month ago I was wearing short sleeves with a thin cardigan. A couple of weeks ago I was wearing short sleeves with thick woolly jumper. Today I was wearing long sleeves with winter coat completed with warm scarf!…
Celery – Marmite of the veggie world. I used to hate it, absolutely detest the thought of chewing on the stringy, weird smelling and yuck tasting vegetable. My mum never used to cook it when I was little too, but then I think her cooking…
Disgusting! I heard you say. Hot coke is not very appetising, I know. But don’t think of it as a glass of coke gone lukewarm in a summer day, think of it as a boiled and reduced to a spiced syrupy sticky gooey sauce with…
Bang bang chicken, or Bon bon chicken, or Strange flavour chicken, is a popular chicken dish originated from Szechuen. It’s basically poached chicken with cucumber mixed with a spicy, tangy sesame sauce, topped with spring onions and chillies, served cold. The name strange flavour chicken…
THE signature Lunar New Year staple in Hong Kong – Nin Go (Year Cake), a sticky, sweet treat that we make in batches to give as gifts and snack at home during LNY.
It’s Dragon Boat Festival! Well it was. I should’ve posted it on Monday but I was too busy chomping on my very own ?? (zongzi), and watching Dragon Boat Race on youtube. Because I used to live quite close to where dragon boat race (one…
Lately I’ve been really craving asian food, probably because the weather is not so cold now, and hence the rich butter or pastry based “western food” all seems to be a bit stodgy suddenly. So I’ve decided to devote more of our dinners to oriental…
I was sooo looking forward to having those angled gourd I bought the other day… It must’ve been over 7 years since I last had them. I was going to do a beef stir fry, however due to Ashleigh being all silly and wouldn’t go…
Since I’ve got some Anko bean paste left from making my new year treat (remember my deep fry fail?), I’ve been trying to think of ways to use it up. And today is Chinese Valentine’s day, traditionally we have to eat something sweet, and anko…
You might have seen this one in a Chinese restaurant. Wonton – literally translated to ‘swallow cloud’ in Cantonese. I have no idea why it’s called that, but I always thought when they are boiled they have this lovely frilly shape that is like a…