Chinese Traditional Glutinous Rice Rolled Cake (软糕,老妈糕, 老嫲糕, 香蕉糕)

INTRODUCTION

Every year after moon cake festival, this cake will start to appear in Facebook. The reason is simple because many family have leftover Gao Fen (糕粉) or cooked glutinous rice flour from the preparation of snow skin moon cake.

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Classic Indian Vegetarian Curry–Lentil Curry aka Curry Dhal (印度扁豆咖喱 பருப்பு குழம்பு)

INTRODUCTION

Since I issued the roti canai or pratha recipe, readers have been asking me for the recipe of curry dhal, a type of gravy usually served with roti canai in the Malaysian and Singaporean eating outlets. That is the 

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Taiwanese Traditional Mung Meat Minced Meat Moon Cake (台湾古早味月饼:绿豆椪)

INTRODUCTION

Many people believed that moon cakes are sweet, even overly sweet based on traditional moon cake perceptions. However, this is not true, not all moon cakes are sweet and one of the classic example of savoury moon cake is

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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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