Teochew Glutinous Rice Roll Cake–Guan Jian (潮汕灌煎)

INTRODUCTION

Usually when It is a Chinese traditional recipe, I will check the background before I blogged. That is the reason why you always read the Wikipedia definition in my post. That provides a basis to support a cuisine background..But

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Wheat Gluten (Mian Jin, 面筋, Seitan, Mi Chiya)

INTRODUCTION

This post is about wheat gluten or seitan or mian jin (面筋)- an important cooking ingredient in Mahayana Buddhism as a substitute of meat. With this main ingredient, wheat gluten can be churned into different delicious vegetarian cooking ingredients.

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KuihTalam Ubi (木薯打南糕)

INTRODUCTION

I bought a kilogram of tapioca from the supermarket and I used it to prepare two tapioca type of nonya Kuih. One is getuk ubi and another is kuih ubi talam.

If you are interested in getuk ubi recipe,

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Tambun Biscuits or Tausa Pia or Mung Bean Pastry (淡文饼 / 豆沙饼)

INTRODUCTION

I am not very happy with my mung bean pastry or tausa pia because of my egg wash. I am lazy and did not sift as such, the pastry looked rather ugly. Well I will leave this to the

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Water Melon Lapis (Lapis tembikai or 西瓜千层蛋糕)

NTRODUCTION

I do have my fair share of favourite and respected bloggers and top of the list will be a pioneer in the blogging industry..- Aunty Yochana . I am unsure where is she now but i like to go

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Compilation of Chinese Kuih’s Crust/Skin and Fillings (中国传统糕点皮及馅之汇编)

INTRODUCTION

This is a long due post and in fact i have wanted to do this compilation for quite a while… Today, I squeezed out some time to do a summary on the traditional kuih fillings and its skin or

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Dual Tone Snow Skin Moon Cake Using Natural Colour (双色调冰皮月饼)

INTRODUCTION

All snow skin moon cakes are basically the same.. Just the moon cake crust and your choice of filling.. What differentiate your moon cake and others is your mould design and how you present your moon cake in an

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Shrimp Dumplings or Har Gao (虾饺)

Updated post 4-8-2016

upload new pictures and a video on the shaping.

INTRODUCTION

Pardon me for my ugly shaping.. There is nothing wrong with the recipe and in fact I like the recipe very much.. It is my skill of

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“Nonya” Curry Puff ?–Flaky or Spiral Curry Puffs(脆皮咖喱卜)

Updated post on 8-9-2016

Update a vegetarian recipe in red. Please omit onion and eggs for vegetarian recipe.

INTRODUCTION

This is a recipe for flaky crust curry puffs and it was commonly known as “Nonya curry puffs”. However, when I

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Baked Matcha Moon Cake (绿茶翡翠月饼) 6
Baked Matcha Moon Cake (绿茶翡翠月饼)

INTRODUCTION

I promised this is a very short post as the recipe is a new recipe created based on my believes that the moon cakes will be tasty and presentable. Therefore, there will be not much history to write about

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