Simplicity Is The Best–Teochew Kailan Cai Poh Fried Kway Tiao (潮汕芥蓝菜脯炒粿条) 7
Simplicity Is The Best–Teochew Kailan Cai Poh Fried Kway Tiao (潮汕芥蓝菜脯炒粿条)

INTRODUCTION

Whenever we dined at Teochew restaurants, my wife would ordered this dish and whenever she ordered this dish, she would grumbled why we never cooked this noodle dish at home..Since I have the ingredients, I have decided to prepare

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Asian “Potato” Chips–Arrowhead Chips (香脆慈姑片,茨菇片) 30
Asian “Potato” Chips–Arrowhead Chips (香脆慈姑片,茨菇片)

INTRODUCTION

While western countries have potatoes chips, in Singapore and Malaysia, we have arrowhead chips which is as crispy and tasty. In recent years, this snack have become a very common Chinese New Year item to serve visiting house guest

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Let Pounding Our Tea …Hakka Tea Rice -  Lei Cha aka Lui Cha (“Thunder” Tea 擂茶) 75
Let Pounding Our Tea …Hakka Tea Rice – Lei Cha aka Lui Cha (“Thunder” Tea 擂茶)

updated post on 7/9/2016

Make some amendments to the recipe for the benefit of vegetarian. For vegetarian recipes, please omit or exclude those ingredients in red ..

INTRODUCTION

This is a rather healthy dish…loaded with herbs and vegetables and with

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Playing With Recrystallization of Sugar–Sugar Coated Yam Sticks (反沙芋头) 28
Playing With Recrystallization of Sugar–Sugar Coated Yam Sticks (反沙芋头)

INTRODUCTION

This is an easy peasy recipe but hard to master… I have tried many times and comes out with these rather ugly sugar coated yam stick.. Well, just to assure readers that if you are not able to do

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Golf Ball Pineapple Tarts aka Pineapple Jam balls or Nastar (凤梨酥球)- Part 2

Updated post on 7-2-2017

You can use the same recipe for salted egg yolk pineapple balls . Just add the homemade salted egg yolk powder to the dough.. I am using fresh salted eggs (baked at 150 degree and mashed)

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Let’s Try A Japanese Honey Sponge Cake–Castella or Kasutera (カステラ, 长崎蛋糕) 44
Let’s Try A Japanese Honey Sponge Cake–Castella or Kasutera (カステラ, 长崎蛋糕)

INTRODUCTION

Very frankly, I have never tasted a piece of Castella cake or Japanese Kasutera honey sponge cake before. However, the pictures in the internet always captured my attention.. It looks like a moist, dense but tasty cake..

I goggled

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Shrimp Angel Hair Pasta With Cream Sauce (海虾白酱意大利天使面) 33
Shrimp Angel Hair Pasta With Cream Sauce (海虾白酱意大利天使面)

INTRODUCTION

Me and my wife was having dinner in an Italian restaurants with our friends.. Though we are not really happy with the other dishes that we ordered, but we are generally pleased with the angel hair pasta in carbonara

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Sarawak Pickled Cucumber - Acar Timum Sarawak 36
Sarawak Pickled Cucumber – Acar Timum Sarawak

INTRODUCTION

Per Wikipedia,

Acar is a type of pickling made in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore. It is a localised version of the Mughlai Achaar. The South East Asian variations are usually made from different vegetables

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German Classic Christmas Bread Stollen (德国圣诞面包 – 史多伦)

UPDATED POST ON 30-11-2016

I have decided to upload another new recipe using yeast method which produced a softer stollen. In addition, almond marzipan is added to the bread. Please refer to recipe 2 in red for the new recipe.

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Japanese Strawberry Mochi - Ichigo Daifuku (いちご大福, 草莓大福) 30
Japanese Strawberry Mochi – Ichigo Daifuku (いちご大福, 草莓大福)

I have decided to temporary put a mango mochi in this post. Mango mochi is a relatively common type of mochi in Hong Kong. The recipe is the same except that mango is used. However for the mochi, I have

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