Chinese Chaozhou Appetizer: Pig Trotter Jelly aka Ter Ka Tang (潮汕冷盘:猪脚冻)

INTRODUCTION

I am unsure if you have seen this Chinese traditional cold cut appetizer. You may have seen this in some Teochew restaurants or you may have accidentally found something like this in the container of overnight braised pig trotter

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Famous Indian Cuisines : Butter Chicken aka Murgh Makhani( 印度奶油鸡 मुर्ग़ मक्खनी)

INTRODUCTION

Singapore and Malaysia has a sizeable Indian population and I was shocked that I have never heard of this well known Indian dishes..May be I am not that exposed as yet. When members in an Australian Facebook Group posted

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Salted Egg Yolk Potato Chips (金莎咸蛋薯片)

INTRODUCTION

An Indonesian rich tai tai phoned my wife and asked her to help to buy 10 bottles of salted egg yolk chips and couriered to Jakarta… She paid S$320 for the chips plus courier charges. That is the current

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Homemade Salted Egg Yolk Powder (家居自制金莎粉, 咸蛋黄粉)

INTRODUCTION

Since the beginning of this year, there are readers who had been asking me if my well liked salted egg yolk cookies can be substituted with salted egg yolk powder sold at the stores. If you are interested in

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Yeast Raised Gula Melaka Ma La Gao aka Chinese Steamed Cake (酵母椰糖马拉糕)

INTRODUCTION

I personally does not have objections to use chemical raising agents such as baking powder and baking soda, but when a recipe called for usage of quantities that exceeds my comfort limit, I will feel uncomfortable about the recipe.

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Crispy Golden Yam Ring (佛钵飘香)

INTRODUCTION

I have failed this recipe once two years ago, the reason being I make it too big and I have difficulty to deep fry the yam ring until crispy. It was a mess and since then, I did not

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Cantonese Classic Sweet And Sour Pan Fried Prawns aka Har Loke ( 干煎茄汁虾禄)

INTRODUCTION

This is a classic Cantonese restaurant prawn dish that is finger licking good because of the sauce coated with the prawns.  It is sweet and tangy and savoury. It is aromatic because of its pan fried process.

Locally, there

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Hazelnut Cocoa Bread Spread aka Nutella Copycat Recipe (榛果可可酱)

INTRODUCTION

Is there a need to introduce Nutella? I do not think so as it is such a popular bread spread that successfully penetrate into many part of the worlds.. I do not think there are  any kids in Singapore

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Eggless, Dairy Less Vegan Chocolate Cake (无蛋 无奶 全素 巧克力蛋糕)

 

INTRODUCTION

It is not my intention to issue a vegan cake recipe but I am very interested to know how a cake without eggs and dairy taste like, I therefore proceeded to design a recipe. In addition, most well known

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Rainbow Vegetable Cubes (炒粒粒 aka 炒菜丁)

INTRODUCTION

My wife likes this dish because my mother in law cooked this rather often at home. However, during our initial years of setting up the family, I refused to cook the dish. The reason being it is very laborious

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