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Stuffed Lotus Root With Mushrooms

January 13, 2012

Happy New Year everyone! This first post of 2012 is themed lotus root. As Chinese New Year is around the corner I will share 1 or 2 CNY dishes with you all (provided they are yummy of course) and this is one of them. Lotus root is one of the many auspicious Chinese New Year [...]

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Steamed Homemade Egg Beancurd with Filament Sticks

November 23, 2011

Steam Homemade Egg Beancurd with Filament Sticks

Have you tried making your own egg beancurd/tofu? Why not? It’s super easy, super fast, super delicious and most important of all it’s homemade. What you need is just 3 basic ingredients: plain soybean milk, eggs and cornstarch. I’ve never thought it would be this easy: mix, steam and eat! Haha This dish is perfect [...]

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Fried Prawns With Salted Egg Yolk

November 3, 2011

Ahh… salted egg yolk, my love! How are you? Long time no eat you! Hahaha :D When it comes to salted egg yolk in Chinese dishes, the most obvious choice is the partnering of prawn with this sinful duck egg. And the favorite way to cook it is either with butter or kam heong style [...]

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Stir-Fry Sweet 4 Color Vegetables

September 9, 2011

This delicious 4 color vegetables dish is a joint effort ‘invention’ by my dad and yours truly. Dad chooses the 4 vegetables while I cook ‘em with no direction in particular. I ended up with a sweet dish and this beautiful dish works really well with rice that are wrapped in Korean dried seaweed sheet. [...]

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Deep Fried Beancurds With Minced Pork

August 19, 2011

Hmm what can I say? I’m having beancurd fever! Of course that doesn’t explain why I’ve been idle for nearly 10 days. I make Perilla Leaves Kimchi again and also experimented with some new recipes; resulting in 2 successes and 1 failure. Deep fried beancurds with minced pork is one of the successful experiment. This [...]

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Fried Crispy Beancurd Cubes With Fermented Black Beans

July 30, 2011

Fried Crispy Beancurd Cubes w Fermented Black Beans

Fermented black beans or douchi (豆豉) in spicy mackerel taste so good with porridge. They are the best and my favorite. This canned food is in fact the only food I know that uses fermented black beans. I’ve never eaten any other fermented black beans dish at home (except the one mentioned above) or in [...]

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Kam Heong Crispy Lotus Root With Salted Egg Yolk

July 22, 2011

I am fascinated with anything that has to do with salted duck egg because I heart this sinful and yet irresistible golden egg. Fried prawn with salted egg, fried crab with salted egg, fried pumpkin with salted egg and the list goes on… you name it I heart it. Lucky for me, the May-June issue [...]

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Inchi Kabin – Nyonya Fried Chicken

June 11, 2011

Inchi Kabin is a Nyonya-style fried chicken marinated with over 10 spices and coconut milk. I thought the name is very unique unlike any other dishes name, no? My first encounter with Inchi Kabin was at Nyonya Foodhouse (ground floor) in Atria Shopping Centre. Actually that’s the only place I have my doses of inchi [...]

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