Monkey Fortune Biscuits (猴王贺饼)

INTRODUCTION

Once upon a time, a group of teenage monkeys were playing in a forest.. Their faces was full of pimples and dirtied with mud.. They were called to celebrate the coming monkey year 2016. Lol..

I did not do

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Prune Lapis (黑枣千层蛋糕)

INTRODUCTION

All the base recipe for different type of commercially sold lapis is basically the same. Minor changes are made to have different flavouring and most will use a base recipe of at least 30 egg yolks. The same is

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Lemon/Orange Meringue Kisses or Ice Cream Cookies (香橙蛋白霜饼/冰淇淋饼)

INTRODUCTION

I prepared some cashew nut cookies yesterday, the recipe used 2 egg yolks, therefore I have 2 egg whites left. You can refer to this post for the recipe: Cashew Nut Cookies (腰豆酥饼)

Since this quantity is small, immediately

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Cashew Nut Cookies (腰豆酥饼)

 

INTRODUCTION

In Singapore and Malaysia, the number of cookies recipes for Chinese New Year is amazing. It seems that I can never able to blog all the recipes.

When I visited supermarket during this period, one of the things

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Braised Egg Whites (卤蛋白)

INTRODUCTION

Chinese New Year cookies preparation can be rather pressurizing, not only in terms of energy required, for some recipes, it will yield a lot of egg whites. Every year, it is a nightmare for me to keep these egg

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Chinese Almond Biscuits or White Almond Cookies (杏仁酥饼/白色杏仁饼)

updated post on 28-12-2016

I just recently realized that this recipe is exactly the same as the “White Almond Cookies 白色杏仁饼“ which is very common in Chinese Facebook Group. Therefore, I have decided to shape the biscuits into normal Chinese

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Classic Cottage or Shepherd Pie (牧羊人馅饼)

INTRODUCTION

I do not really have a chance to try my chicken shepherd pie.. I only had about 2 tablespoons of my pie while picture taking and it was wiped out by my kids during lunch while I ate other

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Traditional Flower Moulded Chinese New Year Snack–Honeycomb cookies, Kuih Loyang aka Kuih Ros (蜂巢饼或糖环)

INTRODUCTION

All these while, I always thought that this snack belong to our Malay or Peranakan brothers or even Dayak brothers in Sarawak.. I seldom saw Chinese elders prepare this and initially, I wanted to Group them into Peranakan or

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Korean Ginseng Chicken Soup–Samgyetang (삼계탕 韩式人参鸡汤)

INTRODUCTION

As a Chinese, I am not unfamiliar with the common household ginseng chicken soup. My family used to prepare this when we  took our examinations or when someone get tired easily . However, our ginseng soup is very simple,

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Braised Sea Cucumber With Minced Meat (海参酿肉)

INTRODUCTION

“Sea cucumbers are echinoderms from the class Holothuroidea. They are marine animals with a leathery skin and an elongated body containing a single, branched gonad. Sea cucumbers are found on the sea floor worldwide. The number of holothurian

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