Casting Spells in Food through Kitchen Sorcery
There are many ways to call this other than the steamed sponge cake; some called it Kueh Neng Ko while others go with “Ji dan gao （鸡蛋糕）”.Anyway, they are commonly known amongst the Chinese in Malaysia and Singapore as traditional cakes prepared usually for prayers alongside the “huat geh aka prosperity cake (recipe coming …
Read MoreRecipe: Traditional Steamed Egg Cake (aka Kuey Neng Koh)
Making your own buns for starters is really not difficult if you have endurance to the long waiting time in the process of the bun/bread making. When deciding to make some bread, it is always useful to have in mind exactly what sort of bread or buns so you can prepare the ingredients. The …
Read MoreRecipe: Homemade buns for starters and cheese sticks
Remember the tortoise cake (ang ku kuih) recipe I posted some time ago? Those purple chewy textured skin is suitable in making Chinese steamed vegetable dumplings as well. These dumplings are also known as chai pau as well. That previous post has no recipe in it, so I decided to include the recipe in …
Read MoreRecipe: Chinese Vegetable Dumpling aka Chai Kuey/ Chai Pau
Mamee Chef Instant Noodle Creamy Tom Yam Flavour is the latest addition to the Mamee family. With products like snacks, confectionery and instant noodles, the brand is no longer foreign to most Malaysian. Here is unpackaging the Mamee Chef Instant Noodle Creamy Tom Yam Flavour tomyam. There is the dried and compressed …
It is so important to give the right energy source to the little ones for these sources indirectly contribute to their learning progress by giving the right nutrient stimulant in growing up. Studies shows that a hungry kid would not be able to concentrate in learning processes and that is crucial for the little …
Ang ku kuih or translated directly to English would be the Red Tortoise Cake is a common traditional pastry originated from China. Universally shaped in round or oval shape, this Chinese pastry is commonly prepared with sticky glutinous rice flour and sweet potato as skin and wrapping around a sweet filling in the center. …
My previous post touched a little on goodness of chili and how it is great as to cook with in simple home dishes. Apart from the known rich Vitamin C in chili, there is also Vitamin A which contains beta carotenoids. This happens to be a very powerful antioxidant which wipes out free radical bodies …
Read MoreSambal Chili and anchovies – the perfect combination
Chilies are great ingredient to many dishes, be it spicy ones or to just as an addition of flavour to non-spicy dishes. Chilies are really rich in Vitamin C along with other good source of minerals like iron, potassium, and copper. Having much medicinal values, they increase the immune system but note if consumed …
I read somewhere suggesting that turtles and tortoises don’t have a set lifespan. Apparently in essence, they would just live forever and ever until something kills them. Be it some known or unknown disease, poisoning, predation, irresponsible outcome of man’s act of pollution which inevitably follows by killing of these creatures in one way …
The Duanwu Festival, also known as the Dragon Boat festival or rice dumpling festival, due to the customs of eating rice dumpling during this festival is a cultural celebration by Chinese communities around the world of which many would celebrate in many ways. It wasn’t a big thing to me; I just like to …