Happy Winter Solstice and a Merry Christmas to you! I would like to take this opportunity to wish you a very great end to this year. May 2024 be a fantastic year for you. I haven’t posted for a while as I have been really busy training to be a coach. I have been coaching …
With the the moon cake festival around the corner, my friend has been trying out some recipes. Caryn has been trying with shop bought fillings like lotus paste and red bean paste. After some discussion last year, she decided to use shop bought golden syrup, rather than making her own. I think she has been …
I was travelling as you know and I went to Indonesia as well. Here are some more short videos from my travels. I tried snake skin fruit. I seldom eat snake skin fruit. I used to see them in the market when I was young and I must have eaten it a few times. But …
Today we are making Stir fry prawns with garlic chives. I use frozen peeled prawns and garlic chives that I grow in my garden. The garlic chives, or Chinese chives is easy to grow and I have been growing it for the past year. It will die off during winter and will grow again in …
Sea food, Sea food! I am on a sea food diet! I eat all the food I see. In Vietnam, this is no different. This street food tour is taking me to the local seafood place. Well, one of the places. The place is out of the city centre, I think. and it is along …
Today we are making an easy dish, crispy fried tofu. There are only 4 easy steps and we use 5 main ingredients, and the best thing is that it is vegan. It is such a simple dish to make and it is good served as a snack too. It makes good finger food in parties. …
Prior to this trip I know about 1 or 2 types of Vietnamese rice paper. It is the one that we use to make summer rolls, that is very popular outside Vietnam. I learn about Vietnamese pizza in one of my FB groups. Now I am seeing how it is made and how it tastes. …
Rendang is a dish that is stewed in a rich spicy and coconutty sauce. So it is NEVER crispy. However, I still remember the MasterChef fiasco where the judges commented on a Malaysian contestant’s dish that the rendang isn’t crispy. That got Malaysians up in arms declaring the ‘stupidity’ of the judges, who think they …
In Vietnam, do as the Vietnamese do. Eat Pho and Drink Vietnamese Coffee! So this is what I did. This is part of the street food tour. I got on the bike and the tour guide zooms in and out of the flower market, pass many inter-junctions and turn right when the lights are red. …
Zooming around Ho Chi Minh city in a swarm of motorbikes is surreal. Fortunately, I am a bike rider. I used to go to school in a motor bike when I had my bike license. If you are not used to ridding pillion on a bike, this definitely will freak you out! The scene is …
I was in Vietnam for my holidays. I tried to book a package, but the package tour from Malaysia was only in Mandarin. Unfortunately that is the state of affairs nowadays. A lot of people, I mean Chinese people tend to send their children to Chinese school. So English is not so popular now. English …
This is a very easy Chinese dish, Chicken in Oyster sauce. Most families would have their own version. This version is very simple to make and every Chinese kitchen should have all the necessary ingredients. I cook this when I run out of ideas or when I am too busy to look up and try …
As I am staying in Subang, and we are not travelling to Penang until the first day of Chinese New Year, we are having our reunion dinner here. There are a few of us, my family and my sister-in-law’s family. We have it in this restaurant Thai Star. As usual, we have Yee Sang. Then …
I reach Singapore as scheduled. My connecting flight to Kuala Lumpur International Airport is 1 hour. So all connecting flight passengers have less than an hour to get to the boarding gate. Lucky thing I check the onward journey info on the screen before landing, and I know which terminal to go. There are quite …
I am back! I was away for a long needed holiday to Malaysia. It has been about 4 years since I went back. The last trip was in 2019. And soon after that it was COVID-19!! I normally visit Malaysia every 2 years or so. So this time is a long awaited trip. I made …
