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 Household Recipes–Steamed Chicken with Black Fungus And Dried Lilies (黑木耳金针菜蒸鸡)

INTRODUCTION

When I saw Facebook member preparing this dish, I always hesitated to steam meat dishes (except minced meat). I have a phobia that meat steaming will provide tough meats and this is probably because of the wrong perception that 

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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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Singapore Hawker Centre Food Recipes: Teochew Kway Chap (潮汕粿汁)

INTRODUCTION

It is not my intention to issue kway chap recipe today. Initially, my objective was very simple, sharing with readers how to clean the pig big intestine (猪大肠头). I have decided to learn how to clean the pig big

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Chicken Biryani aka Nasi Ayam Briani (சிக்கன் பிரியாணி 布瑞雅尼鸡 或 印度香料鸡饭)

INTRODUCTION

I have long wanted to blog chicken biryani recipe after my issuance of fish biryani recipe (Recipe: Fish Biryani (Nasi Biryani Ikan)) but I always forget ..Every time when I shared the fish biryani recipe, members of

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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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Hainanese Pork Chop Rice (海南猪排食谱)

INTRODUCTION

Locally pork chop or the German called it pork schnitzel is always associated with the Hainanese but I am unable to find any write up on Chinese website.

Why information  in People’s Republic of China’s website is important? Well,

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