Chinese Peanut and Sesame Pancake (花生和芝麻烧饼)

INTRODUCTION

A Teochew granny in Singapore knew that I love to taste authentic Teochew kuih and she took the pain to  arrange her relatives from Shantou, China to bring me this unsightly kuih all the way from China. By the

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Borneo Sour Brinjal aka Terung Dayak or Terong Assam

INTRODUCTION

I shared with a Facebook Group in Sarawak in the following manner and that spelt out how I felt issuing this post. It attracted quite a number of likes and comments in the post. From what is being discussed,

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One Pot Vegetable and Nuts Dish (养生蔬菜坚果饭)

INTRODUCTION

My wife always prepared this in her office. She only have one small basic rice cooker in the office and she and her colleagues like to prepare this for lunch. As her colleagues are vegetarian, so she  prepared vegetarian

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Preserved Radish Omelette aka Cai Poh Nerng (干煎菜脯蛋)

INTRODUCTION

This is a humble household dish that I think most Chinese families in the region will also know how to cook.. This dish simple and fast and most families cooked this dish to go with porridge because of the

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Classic French Almond Friands (杏仁费南雪)

INTRODUCTION

It is such a coincidence that when I bought my Madeleine mould at the bakery shop, I also stumbled across some cheap oval shape baking tins. i bought 10 of them with the unit price of 55 cents per

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Pumpkin Bread Rolls (金瓜排包)

INTRODUCTION

Pumpkins were extremely cheap in Singapore last week and that is the reason I have used pumpkin to prepare some simple breads for the family.

I did not have much to tell readers except that this is a very

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Hong Kong Supreme Soya Sauce Fried Noodles (豉油皇炒面)

INTRODUCTION

While Singapore and Malaysia breakfast items have economy fried noodles, Hong Kong has this very humble soya sauce fried noodles. It is very humble as the flavour of the noodles is purely from soya sauce and you can easily

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An Healthier Alternative : Oatcakes or Oatmeal Biscuits (燕麦饼干)

INTRODUCTION

When I was stationed in Shanghai, I needed to work a lot of overtimes.  One of the snacks that I like is the oatmeal biscuits and that is how I started to like this biscuit. I like it because

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Korean Egg Bread aka Gyeran Bbang (韩国鸡蛋面包)

INTRODUCTION

When one Facebook friend, Ms. Jo Lim posted her Korean egg bread and share her recipe to a Facebook Group’s members, many members are trying and what attracted me is the concept of having an egg in a “bread”..

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Basic Sponge Cake (基本海绵蛋糕)

INTRODUCTION

I prepared a cake, it is a successful cake, but as I do not know how to cut it across, it make my cake cut with unevenness. I tried to decorate the cake into a simple Victoria Sponge cake,

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