“Meal for Chinese Lunar New Year vs Western Valentine’s Day. “ So happen that this year’s Chinese Lunar New Year coincides with the Western Valentine’s Day. So, you might want to cook some sweet-hearted and auspicious with good symbolization dishes. Which condiment that first comes to your mind? The very first condiment I could think…
Golden Shrimps (with Salted Egg Yolk) – 黄金笑虾虾
“One of the important Chinese festive seafood dishes. It helps to spread laughter around!” Chinese Lunar New Year, we (Chinese) emphasize on cooking symbolic dishes with auspicious dish name. Prawn, or called it shrimp, is one of the compulsory items to be used to cook CNY dishes as shrimp, in Cantonese, is pronounced as HA (虾)….
Chicken Wing in Honeyed Char Siew Sauce (密糖叉烧汁鸡翼)
“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,…
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…
A Place to Shop for Kitchenwares
“A hidden treasure in Eunos, where I bought my kitchenware with varieties, sizes, colours, designs, materials.. etc, @ Kitchen.Mart” Updated 2021: This shop may have closed down permanently in Singapore. Disclaimer: This place is for you, only if you like to shop for assortment of kitchenware. I am not a spokeman for any of these places, but if you…
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…





