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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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 New Year Recipes: Cashew Sugee Cookies (腰豆苏吉饼)

INTRODUCTION

I believed if you have bought something like the picture below from the famous Bengawan Solo in Singapore, you will like this cookie that is sandy and literally melt in the mouth. ..

If you are Sarawakian and you

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Chinese Festival Recipes: Traditional Tangyuan aka Glutinous Rice Balls (古早味汤圆)

Updated post on 9-12-2016

I have decided update some new pictures to the post since I issued the post 3 years ago. Note that 2016 winter solstice falls on 21st December 2016 

INTRODUCTION

Winter Solstice Festival is a few days

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Chinese Dessert Recipe: Black Sesame Seeds Tangyuan (擂沙汤圆 , 黑羊酥汤圆)

INTRODUCTION

I really loves this dessert.. It is not my creation but a very common dessert in Shanghai and Ningbo. It has a very smooth black sesame filling that will flow out of the tangyuan. In the Ningbo area, it

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Christmas Muffins or Light Fruit Cake (圣诞马芬)

UPDATED POST ON 4-12-2016

I have updated another new recipes on using muffin approach to prepare a quick bake for Christmas. Please scroll down for recipe 2 in red.  This muffin is especially relevant for those who do not like

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Christmas Recipe: Soft Chewy Almond Cookies aka Bethmann/Amaretti Cookies (杏仁软饼干)

INTRODUCTION

Because of the preparation of German Christmas bread, stollen (Recipe: German Classic Christmas Bread Stollen (德国圣诞面包 – 史多伦)), I home made some marzipan or almond paste. Since i have some left over marzipan, I have decided to make

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Classic Chinese Snack Recipes: 5 Spice Chinese Tea Eggs (五香茶叶蛋)

INTRODUCTION

“Tea egg is a typical Chinese savory food commonly sold as a snack, in which a boiled egg is cracked and then boiled again in tea, sauce and/or spices. It is also known as marble egg because cracks in

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Chinese Glutinous Rice Sausage (糯米肠)

INTRODUCTION

All these while, I knew there is such a glutinous rice roll but I have never tasted it before. I knew traditionally, it was prepared using pig intestines and I do not think I will attempt to try it

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