Chinese New Year Recipes: Fuzhou Spicy and Sour Fish Maw Soup (福州酸辣鱼鳔羹)

INTRODUCTION

Usually before Chinese New Year, fish maws will flood the Chinese New Year market. It is considered as one of the presentable gifts to friends and relatives as it is rather costly and not a common item in the

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Chinese New Year Recipes: Curry Laksa Cookies (咖喱辣沙曲奇)

INTRODUCTION

The concept of laksa cookies is not new and it has been in existence for a few years. If you Google laksa cookies, you will see lots of recipe. However, I opt to design my own cookies because cookies

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Chinese New Year Recipe: Auspicious Chinese Cabbage Dish (包发百财吉祥菜)

INTRODUCTION

This is a familiar Chinese New Year dish but I have difficult to trace the origins or even the proper name of the dish from Chinese website. I believed many readers also aware of this delicious mainly vegetable dish

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Chinese New Year Recipe : Crispy Seaweed Crackers (酥炸紫菜饼)

INTRODUCTION

During the Chinese New Year seasons, when I frequented the supermarket of Chinese New Year market, one of the things that I will do is to “survey” the Chinese New Year goodies section. I will see what is sold

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Steamed Prune Cake (Kek Kukus Prun or 蒸黑枣蛋糕)

INTRODUCTION

I have received a request for a prune cake recipe but she did not specify which type of prune cake she is looking for. Well, I knew prune cake is not common in Singapore and West Malaysia but it

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Chinese New Year Recipes – Cassava Cheese Cookies (芝士薯粉饼 Biskuit Sago Keju)

INTRODUCTION

Happy new year and I am rather busy to adjust my daily workload since kids are schooling tomorrow.

I do not have much to talk about this cookie but I get to know this Indonesian cookie from the famous

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Chinese New Year Recipe : Prosperity Pineapple Cake aka Pineapple Upside Cake (吉祥旺来蛋糕)

INTRODUCTION

Somehow I remember some  members of a Facebook Group ever prepared this cake during Chinese New Year and I was told that it is an auspicious cake.

Well, Chinese always associated pineapple (黄梨 huang Li or Ong lai) with 

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Chinese Famous Recipe : Sour Cabbage Pork Belly (酸菜汆白肉, 酸菜白肉炖粉条)

INTRODUCTION

I do not have confidence that any of my readers will try recipe but it is a recipe that is so precious to me and therefore I have decided to blog..I missed this common North eastern Chinese dish for

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Hand Knead Bao Recipe (手工包食谱)

INTRODUCTION

I have a Kenwood Chef mixer at home and all these while, I have been using them to prepare breads, Chinese steamed buns and etc..Though it is powerful and produce a better kneading results, but it does have some

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Chinese Takeaway Recipe : General Tso’s Chicken (左宗棠鸡)

INTRODUCTION

I always heard about General Tso’s chicken and I have never eaten it even though I was stationed in China on and off for at least 3-4 years.. It is also a funny case that the name of the

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