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Green Bean Cake 绿豆糕
This is a nostalgic food which I love to eat when I was a kid. I could not recall how long I haven’t eaten the green bean cake 绿豆糕. This snack is also known as mung bean cake. In fact, it is not really a cake but it is usually mould in a cake form.…
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Sugarcane Water Chestnut Barley drink
It has been a warm weather recently and the whole family has just recovered from stomach flu. Since we need something “cooling” for our bodies, boiling Sugarcane Water Chestnut Barley drink 竹蔗马蹄薏米水came to my mind. This beverage beside having its medical effects, it is also refreshing and sweet. Chinese Barley is commonly known to be…
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Fan Choy (饭菜)
Fan Choy a.k.a. steamed rice or 饭菜 in Chinese is one of my favourite breakfast. Usually, you can find it at the stalls selling steamed items like Siu Mai, Cheong Fun. Nowadays, you can also pick up the chilled one from NTUC supermarket and heat it before serving. Notwithstanding, it is not as savoury as…
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Steamed Milk Rice Cake
After steaming the milk cake using cake flour, I decided to replace cake flour with rice flour mainly because I noticed there is an ingredient in the cake flour that says “Chlorine”. So, trying to improvise the cake was very much motivated by health reason to avoid bleaching agent in my kids’ food, I did this…
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Red Ruby with Gula Melaka
Red Ruby is a Thai dessert and Red Ruby with Gula Melaka is a dessert you can find more commonly in Singapore and Malaysia. The red ruby is famous for its chewy texture that comes crunchy at the same time. Topping up with the aromatic coconut sugar and coconut milk, it is a sinfully tasty…
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Savoury Crepe with Soya Sauce Chicken
Personally, I love to eat savoury crepe with soya sauce chicken. I remember I have eaten a very delicious savoury crepe wrapped with mayonnaise, lettuce and chicken in Osaka couple of years back and never forget the taste. It sounds like a very simple crepe with fillings that is available at many places but the…
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Double-boiled Snow Fungus with Papaya 木瓜炖雪耳
Double-boiled Snow Fungus with Papaya (木瓜炖雪耳) is one of those easy to make desserts with great health benefits. Snow Fungus is also known as Tremella fuciformis. Apparently, good quality snow fungus is pale, yellowish-white colour and has a mucilage-like texture. Snow fungus has been used by Chinese herbalists for thousands of years as tonic herb as well as…
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Steamed Milk Cake
My toddlers love steamed cake and I have some milk that is going to expire in few days time, so thinking of steamed milk cake for my kids. I chanced upon Aunty Yochana‘s Steamed Milk Cake recipe and decided to give it a try. The first time it turned out like huat kueh, i.e. flourishing…
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Teochew Granny’s Cake / Soft Cake 老嬷糕
This is one of the nostalgic childhood snack – Teochew Granny’s Cake / Soft Cake. It has been a long-time since I ate this snack and recently, I saw it selling at one of the Teochew Cake shops and bought one to try. It is really sweet or too sweet for my liking. So, I…
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Ginger Milk Curd 薑汁撞奶
In fact, Ginger Milk Curd (薑汁撞奶) is not in my To-Do list but starring at a bottle of milk that is expiring, I asked my family members what do they want to eat using milk as an ingredient. The response (coincidentally or not) I got from my mum and husband was, Ginger Milk Curd (薑汁撞奶). I…