Hong Kong Famous Polo Buns (香港驰名菠萝油)

INTRODUCTION

I loved polo buns.. I started to like polo buns surprisingly is not in Hong Kong but the cha chang ting (茶餐厅) –  a type of Hong Kong fast food type of outlet when I was stationed in

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Fatless Avocado Cranberries Muffins (无油鳄梨蔓梅马芬)

INTRODUCTION

It is an accidental design of this recipe. It is out of my curiosity that I designed this recipe.. The Chinese name of avocado is 牛油果 or literally translated as “butter fruit” and that prompted me to experiment if

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Chinese Peanut and Sesame Pancake (花生和芝麻烧饼)

INTRODUCTION

A Teochew granny in Singapore knew that I love to taste authentic Teochew kuih and she took the pain to  arrange her relatives from Shantou, China to bring me this unsightly kuih all the way from China. By the

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Classic French Almond Friands (杏仁费南雪)

INTRODUCTION

It is such a coincidence that when I bought my Madeleine mould at the bakery shop, I also stumbled across some cheap oval shape baking tins. i bought 10 of them with the unit price of 55 cents per

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Pumpkin Bread Rolls (金瓜排包)

INTRODUCTION

Pumpkins were extremely cheap in Singapore last week and that is the reason I have used pumpkin to prepare some simple breads for the family.

I did not have much to tell readers except that this is a very

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Classic French Madeleine (法国玛德琳小蛋糕)

INTRODUCTION

I have long wanted to issue the madeleine recipe but I do not have the mould. Without the mould, it can’t be called a madeleine. Yesterday, I unwillingly and irrationally bought an imported mould from USA that cost me

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An Healthier Alternative : Oatcakes or Oatmeal Biscuits (燕麦饼干)

INTRODUCTION

When I was stationed in Shanghai, I needed to work a lot of overtimes.  One of the snacks that I like is the oatmeal biscuits and that is how I started to like this biscuit. I like it because

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Korean Egg Bread aka Gyeran Bbang (韩国鸡蛋面包)

INTRODUCTION

When one Facebook friend, Ms. Jo Lim posted her Korean egg bread and share her recipe to a Facebook Group’s members, many members are trying and what attracted me is the concept of having an egg in a “bread”..

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Basic Sponge Cake (基本海绵蛋糕)

INTRODUCTION

I prepared a cake, it is a successful cake, but as I do not know how to cut it across, it make my cake cut with unevenness. I tried to decorate the cake into a simple Victoria Sponge cake,

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Basic Bagel Recipe (贝果)

INTRODUCTION

“A bagel (Yiddish: בײגל‎ beygl; Polish: bajgiel), also spelled beigel, is a bread product originating in Poland, traditionally shaped by hand into the form of a ring from yeasted wheat dough, roughly

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