Garlic Butter Prawns
This tasty and easy-to-prepare garlic butter prawns dish is great as an appetizer or served with bread. I remember eating this in Perth in one of the restaurants by the sea. They gave us a newspaper to place on the table so that we could help ourselves to a huge bowl of steaming hot garlic prawns and mess the table…
One-Pot Hainanese Chicken Rice
I know of many people who cannot live without eating chicken rice at least once a week. Many Singaporeans crave for chicken rice when they are away on a holiday and look forward to eating it as soon they are back home. If you want to make chicken rice the way your favourite hawker does it, it may take some…
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Good Luck Pasta
There are some ingredients that are considered auspicious in Chinese culture and used mostly during the Chinese New Year. The auspicious symbolism of these foods is based on their pronunciations or appearance. The preparation, and the way it is served and eaten matters a lot too. I have used black moss (wealth), prawns (liveliness), shitake mushrooms (longevity, great opportunities) and…
Chinese Style Butter Chicken
The creamy sauce, together with the aroma of curry leaves, is very appetizing, whether you cook chicken, fish or crabs with it. You can marinate the chicken pieces and cook the sauce well in advance and keep it refrigerated. Just before meal time, deep fry the chicken and toss it in the heated sauce. If you find the sauce too…
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Stir Fried Vegetarian Rice Noodles
You will frequently see stir fried vegetarian rice noodles in housewarmings, baby showers and children’s birthday parties. It is not only easy to make vegetarian noodles but also a kind of comfort food that makes people want to eat more.
Kimchi Fried Rice
This spicy and delicious fried rice is very easy to make. Kimchi is available in almost all supermarkets these days. Kimchi is Korean-style spicy pickled vegetables. As far as possible, use rice that has been chilled overnight when making fried rice.
Miso and Ginger Sauce Salmon on Garlic Brown Rice
A mother and child relationship starts from food, I think. After all, every mother would want a healthy child. Initially, a healthy child is formed only through proper food intake by the mother during pregnancy. Consequently, a mother has to cook and feed her child with nutritious food.
Baked Char Siew Puffs
You need to use lard to make the traditional version of this recipe. However, you can substitute the lard with vegetable shortening or with clarified butter. Though, lard lends a nice aroma and flakiness to the pastry, due to health reasons, I think milk fat or vegetable fat is better. You can make the patties into any shapes for…
Lek Tow Suan
Lek Tau Suan or Tau Suan as it is known often is a Chinese snack/dessert. It is a believed that the split green beans aka mung beans are very cooling to the system and therefore this dish is relished during the hot season. It is usually eaten with a spoon. The youtiou adds a nice crispy texture and is a…
Peanut Sauce Noodles
This is an interesting recipe. You can make this at least 5 hours in advance and it can be eaten warm or cold – making it an ideal dish for any festive occasion. Apart from the vegetables mentioned, you can also serve with blanched pea sprouts (doumiao) or julienned carrot.
Chicken Rice
Chicken rice is one of the most popular hawker stall dish in Singapore. There are many versions to it - rice cooked in chicken stock; rice cooked in chicken stock made with lemon grass, screw pine leaves and soy sauce; rice cooked with chicken fat and many more versions. Even chicken is either roasted or steamed and these too can…
Belacan Chicken
In case, you are wondering what Belacan Chicken is, it is chicken pieces marinated in shrimp paste and other ingredients, dipped in batter and then deep fried. You have to soak it long enough so that the marinade seeps through every molecule of the chicken and make it truly fragrant. The Belacan Chicken should be crunchy on the skin and…
