Peanut Butter Carrot Dog Birthday Cake

October 3, 2011
Chester's Birthday Cake

Happy Birthday Chester! My golden retriever turns 8 today. You’re still cute as ever despite turning 61 (human years). :P We celebrated his birthday a day earlier with a simple peanut butter carrot cake. The drooling was controllable but not the barking! Haha A cake for my birthday boy!

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Buddha’s Fruit & Red Dates Drink

September 27, 2011
Buddha's Fruit And Red Dates

Recently I found another interesting cooking book from my mom’s stash of books. This one is all about cooking with Chinese herbs… something that I’ve always wanted to learn. For my first tryout, I choose to make a simple drink using Buddha’s fruit (羅漢果, 罗汉果, luo han kuo) and red dates (jujube). Luo han literal [...]

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Fong Keow (Pottery) Bak Kut Teh Restaurant @ Taman Intan, Klang

September 22, 2011
Bak Kut Teh

Finally I’ve tried Fong Keow Bak Kut Teh. This restaurant is situated at the corner taking over 3 shop lots. It’s beside the famous Teluk Pulai (Claypot) Bak Kut Teh Restaurant (though on a different block). When I reached there at 11am, the eatery was practically empty. Where are the customers? I almost change my [...]

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Osmanthus ‘Gui Hua’ Beancurd

September 15, 2011
Osmanthus 'Gui Hua' Beancurd

When I saw this recipe in my favorite Beancurd Flavor book, I knew I gotta try it. Osmanthus ‘Gui Hua’ Beancurd is sort of a replica of Osmanthus Shark Fin dish that I so loved. Typically you can find Osmanthus Shark Fin as one of the ‘season’ in the four season dish served in Chinese [...]

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Stir-Fry Sweet 4 Color Vegetables

September 9, 2011
Stir-Fry 4 Color Vegetables

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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Steamed Pork Cake

September 3, 2011
Steamed Pork Cake

When fellow blogger Jason Mumbles tweeted about a cake that his mom is making called Steamed Pork Cake, that got some of us;twitter followers REAL curious. I’ve never heard nor seen anything like it before. It’s indeed unique and interesting. Thank you Jason for posting the recipe. You’re so kind. :) The actual recipe call [...]

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Healthy Roselle Juice

August 24, 2011
Roselle Juice

I was first introduced to Roselle at my local wet market earlier this year. This lovely maroon color ‘fruit’ from the hibiscus family caught my eyes as I was exiting the market. I’ve never seen anything like it before. Pretty and mysterious! Unfortunately I didn’t buy any at that time because we were busy planning [...]

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Deep Fried Beancurds With Minced Pork

August 19, 2011
Deep Fried Beancurds with Minced Pork

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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