My Mom is a huge fan of soupy dishes so you’re probably going to see many, many porridge/ poached rice/ pao fan/ noodle soup recipes on this blog, such as this warming ginger chicken soup recipe (made with coconut water!) and this Singapore Hainanese Chicken Porridge recipe. This everyday pumpkin fish porridge recipe is one…
Pandan leaves (also known as screwpine) are ubiquitous in SouthEast Asian cooking due to their colour and fragrance- pandan is often called Asian vanilla but the 2 flavours are not interchangeable. (It probably helps that pandan grows so readily in the hot SouthEast Asian climate too! If you want to find out more about the…
When I was living in London, I loved to invite people over for a Chinese New Year bash. Unfortunately, it was just me in the kitchen, cooking for 10-15 people- unlike in Asia, there was no hired help, although I did manage to rope in a friend as a kitchen elf once! After several hit…
I baked over 1000 peanut cookies using various recipes before I came up with these tips to make the Ultimate 5-ingredients Chinese Peanut Cookies (naturally vegan too!). Jump to Recipe In case you’re not familiar with Chinese peanut cookies, they’re a snack usually seen during Chinese New Year and are not the same as American…
There are few things in life more mesmerising than watching your corn kernels pop with a vengeance and fly all around your pot (ideally covered by a glass lid so that you don’t get hit in the eye by one of the more energetic kernels!). However, if you’ve never done it before, you may need…
If you’ve never had salted eggs before, you’re in luck. You’re about to discover one of the most delicious, most savoury, sweet and umami-packed ingredients possible. YUM. If you’re bemoaning your lack of access to an Asian grocery store, fret not as making your own salted eggs is as easy as pie. (Easier than pie,…
When people talk about Singapore, they never fail to mention the food: the cheap and delicious street food found in hawker centres (recently added to the UNESCO Heritage list), the many Michelin star restaurants (as well as the world’s cheapest Michelin-star meal) and more. However, delicious as our food is, there is so much more…
