Snow Skin Mooncake without Gao Fen and Vegetable Shortening (没有白油及糕粉的冰皮月饼)

INTRODUCTION

Not everybody like snow skin moon cake and I am one of them. I do not like snow skin because of the Gao Fen (糕粉) which is the main ingredient of preparing snow skin moon cake though I have

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Japanese Croissant Shaped Salty Buttery Bread aka Shio Pan (ザルツシュタンゲン(塩パン), 日式盐奶油卷面包 或 盐可颂)

INTRODUCTION

My ex-colleagues insisted my wife bought Shio Pan from a local bakery and let me try. She gave me the shio pan and to be frank, I am not impressed with it as it is salty and rather tough.

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Classic Chinese Boiled Shrimps or Blanched Prawns (白灼虾)

INTRODUCTION

I do not think I need to introduce this dish and in fact, I also do not know how to promote this dish.

It is such a common prawn dish in my house when I was young   but the

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Teochew La Ko (潮汕朥糕)

INTRODUCTION

I vouched that I never liked this traditional moon cake when I was a kid. It bound to appear every year in my house and I never touched it. It is usually very oily and full of gao fen

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Sour Vegetable Minced Meat (酸菜炒肉燥)

INTRODUCTION

We were having lunch at a hawker centre and my wife ordered this dish, the stewed sour vegetable.

She told me she has not eaten this vegetable for years and I have also forgotten about this vegetable.. She said

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The Smiling Mantou–Sarawak Chawan Piko (必糕) aka West Malaysian Hokkien Moho Kuih (摩诃粿)

Updated post on 16-2-2017

As promised, I have updated a recipe with sweet potatoes and since this is not for praying, I have added cranberries to enhance the taste.

The recipe is actually the same by just adding sweet potatoes

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Malay Soya Sauce Chicken – Ayam Masak Hitam aka Ayam Masak Kicap (马来酱油黑鸡)

INTRODUCTION

I think readers who like to eat Malay or Padang food will know there is a dish name “Ayam Masak Merah”, the red coloured chicken which in essence using lots of tomato sauce to cook the chicken. It is

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Chinese Scallion Pancake (葱油饼)

INTRODUCTION

If a cuisine is not famous, Wiki will not have a detail write up and Wiki have some interesting write up on the Chinese scallion pancake. Since Wiki uses the word scallion, I have also use the name scallion

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Putu Mayam aka Putu Mayang aka Idiyappam (இடியாப்ப‌ம்)

INTRODUCTION

“Putu mayam in Malay or Idiyappam (இடியாப்ப‌ம்) in Tamil is a Tamil dish from southern India. It is popular in southern India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Singapore. The process for making putu mayam

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Taiwanese Minced Meat Steamed Rice Cake (台湾肉燥碗粿)

INTRODUCTION

This is another recipe that i had wanted to share earlier but did not take an effort to issue the recipe.

I remembered when I issued the chwee kuih recipe (Chwee Kueh or Steamed Rice Cake With Preserved

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