Long Beans Rice 豆角饭

My mom taught me how to do this (conventional rice cooker method), but I improvised it with …. an additional egg… cos there’s alw…

Stir Fry KangKong Delimas

Kangkong (Tagalog) or tangkong (Aklanon) is called in English, sometimes as swamp cabbage , water spinach, water glorybind, water…

Silken Tofu with Oyster Sauce 蚝油水豆腐

Ever sang Pease Porridge Hot??? Some like it hot, some like it cold, some like it in the pot, nine days old... Haha.. this is not…

Chicken with Chinese Mushrooms 冬姑木耳鸡

Whenever this dish was cooked at my home (parent’s), the first thing that gets snapped up were the mushrooms and fungi. The chick…

Kinpira Gobo/Burdock Salad

This is an overview from University of Maryland Medical Center : Burdock has been used for centuries to treat a host of ailments.…

Watercress Soup 西洋菜汤

The Chinese boils watercress for soup or for a cooling drink (liang cha). While Westerners use raw watercress for salads and sand…

Sweet and Sour Fish 茄汁鱼

Black pomfret, is the usual fish of choice for most of my friends’ mothers to make this dish, and we usually call it, Tomato Sauc…

Steamed Herbal Fish

Bought the wrong fish for this dish. I meant to get Snapper but told the fishmonger Seabass instead. Haiya! I don't really li…

Rice Sandwich

Here's a kid's meal idea with the help with a cookie cutter. I'm using luncheon meat (I only use Tulip Brand so no wo…

Steamed Pandan Cup Cakes

My Braun Multimix of 12 years said good bye to me recently... so, making cakes that needs lots of whipping up has to be put off u…

Blanched Chinese Flowering Cabbage

You might notice that I cook my vegetables by blanching them. They usually turn out looking nicer then stir fried. I never real…

Rice Cooker Fatt Koh

Nature and ancestor spirits are common in popular Taoism so this recipe comes in very handy for those who wish to offer this for …

Pan Grilled Bacon rolled Prawns

Two of my son's favourites are here, prawn and streaky bacon. I used some of the bacon for previous dish and the rest were u…

Bak Chang (Savoury Rice Dumplings) 咸肉粽

All rice dumplings in Mandarin are called Zongz i. I'm making savoury meat dumplings. Hokkiens call it Bak Chang, Cantonese c…

Red Bean Paste Rice Dumplings (Hong Dau Gan Sui Joong) 红豆鹵水粽

It's near Duan Wu Jie again... I first learnt to make Gan Sui Joong when I was 16... and they were hard and stuck to every bi…