Deep Fried Niangao (酥脆炸年糕)

INTRODUCTION

After joining Facebook, I realized there are many ways of eating niangao but I am used to deep frying niangao or pan fried niangao with eggs. Some ate by using a spoon to scoop out the sticky soft niangao

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Bakwa and Leek Fried Rice (肉干大蒜炒饭)

INTRODUCTION

Happy Chinese New Year and may all readers be blessed with abundances of health and wealth. This is the first post for the Year of Monkey and I am looking forward to share more post Chinese New Year dishes

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Sweet Potatoes Crackers (炸番薯饼, keropok ubi)

INTRODUCTION

Eating homemade crackers can be as healthy as you want it to be. The preparation environment is much cleaner, you can use less seasoning and instead of deep fried, you can always use air fried or microwave. Having said

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Yeasted Rice Flour Huat Kuih (粘米粉酵母发糕)

INTRODUCTION

All Huat Kuih looks the same but they are different. Different in terms of taste and texture because it is made using different leavening agent and different flour.

Not many people will know how importance is this huat kuih

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SPECIAL COMPILATION OF 60 CHINESE NEW YEAR RECIPES–PART 3– Auspicious Chinese New Year Dishes ( 60 春节食谱汇编 3 – 吉祥年菜)

INTRODUCTION

This is a special compilation for all the Chinese New Year related recipes. It will be divided into 3 posts.

  • Part 1 (90 recipes)  is concerning all the cookies, pastries pertaining to the Chinese New Year recipes.
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Double Abalone Happiness Dish (双鲍争辉)

INTRODUCTION

Eating abalone is definitely not common when I was young. We hardly or have no chance to eat abalone and we only knew about the term abalone from various literatures. It was always written that it is precious and

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Agar Agar Sweets (燕菜糖)

INTRODUCTION

I asked my boy to try this traditional agar agar sweets, he refused citing that there is too much colouring. I was stunned and to a certain extent, Singapore education system is a success. I presumed he learned from

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Chickpeas cookies (马豆酥)

Updated post on 9-1-2017

Since I have a kuih bangkit mould, I am thinking of using it for the moulding. It works well and  I have append recipe 2 in red. Instead of free shaping, you can just mix the

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Poon Choi aka Peng Cai or Basin Dish (盆菜)

INTRODUCTION

Pen Cai (Mandarin 盆菜) or Poon Choi (Cantonese) is a traditional dish for the Hakka and the Cantonese. I am not going to write more about this auspicious dish as Wikipedia has a very detail and extensive write up

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Red Bean Niangao (红豆年糕)

INTRODUCTION

Niangao or glutinous rice cake is a very important Chinese New Year Cake that most families will prepare and purchased during Chinese New Year.  It signifies progression over the years or 年年高升.

In essence, niangao is made from glutinous

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