“Simply easy, simple savoury“ One of my readers was asking for a recipe of 密汁鸡 (Pronounciation in Mandarin as “Mi Zhi Ji”) in my FB Fanclub. Without her further elaboration on the dish title, I assumed she wanted the honeyed chicken. However, I had an urge of making the honey char siew flavour version instead, last weekend. So,…
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Prawns in Thick Miso & Tomato (with Egg Drop) Gravy
“You can never resist this beautiful and lips-smacking prawns with thick miso and (chili) tomato gravy dish.” This dish was introduced by one of the old friends years back. So, I envisioned and cooked this dish at home recently, with the ‘recipe’ left in my memory. So, I would say this dish is more like…
Homebaked Mango Cake for Birthday Celebration
“Making of round-shaped Fresh Mango Cake as birthday cake.” I first baked this mango cake (in square shape) as ‘tea cake’ for meeting at the office. And now, I have readers who like to bake this the birthday celebration. I am sure this will be a good choice, for an easy baking, and yet, impressive enough…
Poached Egg
“How to poach a perfect egg? Here are the steps to obtain good egg poaching result.. And, I poach egg to make sandwich with cheese or egg Ben pancakes meals for breakfast or brunch.” Eating poached egg is better than sunny-side-up egg, in a way, as you don’t need to add oil to cook the egg. I…
Lung Nourishing Chinese Tonic Soup (止咳润肺汤)
“Delicious lung nourishing soup with mild sweet taste that makes it so good to drink in normal days, even if you are not having cough or so” I am sorry to hear that one of my reader’s dad suffered from pneumonia (肺炎). And, she asked me for a good soup to be taken by his…
Stir-Fried Pig’s Liver with Spring Onion and Ginger (姜葱豬肝)
“Stir-fried pig’s liver with scallion and Hua Diao rice wine. You will like this, if you like livers, but if you don’t vary the dish with other meat types and adapt the recipe, it’s still perfectly fine though!” Of course, I was following up with the other “Scholar dish“, or perhaps, it’s just the usual…





