As you know, I am not a dessert person. I love savoury food, and just not that keen on desserts, cakes, or anything sweet. But for some reason, for the last few days I was craving for sweets stuff especially Tong Yuen.. So when I was doing my grocery shopping online, I bought some sweet potatoes and [...]

Are you  living abroad and missing food from home?? What would you do when you are craving for oriental food?? Yes, you be creative, you improvise, you make do with whatever you can get. That is what I do. So what did I have for dinner tonight?? It’s Curry Laksa! Yumm. Actually I cheated, I [...]

Im always very reluctant to cook dinner if its for myself, especially after work. Im too hungry to wait for another 1-2hours for dinner, then wash up etc. But if I have guests around, that is different story, Id cook every night! So I have been cooking pretty much everynight for the past 3 nights since my friend is [...]

Since my parents are around for holidays, I decided to cook something for them. I made soy sauce chicken wings and stewed beef with carrots and parsnips, and stir fried pak choi with garlic. The chicken wing dish is very tasty, and simple to prepare. You only need rock sugar and soy sauce. I learnt [...]

How long did you think I spent on preparing this bowl of porridge??? 2 hours? 5? Yes. 5 minutes! Lol… it was instant porridge! It does look like a properly cooked porridge doesn’t it?  I love the instant porridge, they all taste so good, and the texture feels as though it has been prepared for [...]

After I tried the Thai panang chicken at one of the thai restaurants in town, I fell in love with it. So I thought maybe if I can get the panang paste, I can cook it too!      Im so lucky, I found the paste in the recently opened thai shop, 1 minute away from [...]

My very own home made nasi lemak!! Well not exactly made by me from scratch, because I used the rendang paste hehe.. The rendang paste is so good!! Yum yum… I left the beef to cook in the rendang sauce for about 2 hours, until it became really soft.. I also added some coconut milk, [...]

I wanted to use up all my random bits of vegetables today. The potatoes and ladies fingers were going off soon, so I thought I could make chicken curry since I had chicken fillet in the freezer too. Curry is always easy to make if you have a good paste or sauce, you just have [...]

Tonight’s dinner is a mixture of western and asian style. The creamy sauce and the cheese is more of a western choice, but the rice makes it oriental. The best cheese baked rice I had was the one I had in Kim Gary, an oriental restaurant in Malaysia, influence by Hong Kong cuisines. In England, you [...]

My friend recommended me to Fook Kin fried rice a while ago, and eversince then I have been craving it. I had the hong kong style Fook Kin fried rice for the first time in a chinese restaurant in Plymouth, the second time around we went there, the old chef has left, the new chef [...]