Simply Sesame Noodles With Char Siew

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This bowl of sesame noodles is a really simple dish to make. If you are a noodle person and you don’t mind cold dishes, this dish will satisfy your hunger very easily, what with its sesame fragrance and savoury flavours.

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A Golden Pot Of Chicken & Potatoes

Baked Honey Chicken & Potatoes

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A nice meal to have on a really busy weekend – one full of carbo and energy to freshen up and prepare for a new, busy week ahead. 🙂

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An Experimental Mango Yogurt Cheesecake

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I had wanted to bake a cake for the guy’s birthday, but due to time constraints, I thought a cake that does not need baking would be a great idea. Hence the decision to make a cheesecake, and a mango one at that. Sadly, it didn’t turn out quite as good as I was hoping it would be (refer to my disclaimers below for reasons), but I’m not giving it up forever. Gonna try again next time when there’s another chance!

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家常便饭 - 鲅鱼炒芹菜 (Stir-fried Threadfin With Celery)

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Given the many varieties of vegetables  (celery, cabbage, spinach etc) and fish (threadfin, mackerel, batam fish etc), it is actually not difficult to cook up a dish of stir-fry with fish and vegetables, given the many combinations available. What one needs, of course, would be the freshest fish on offer in the market and the rest would be easy.

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A Brazilian Fish Stew Called Moqueca

Brazilian Moqueca

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Moqueca is a dish originating from the states of Bahia in the North- and Southeast of Brazil, one that has been cooked for more than three hundred years. This stew is traditionally cooked in a clay pan using ingredients like fresh saltwater white-fleshed fish, tomatoes, coconut milk and either olive or palm oil (depending on which part of Brazil one lives in and what dialect one speaks).

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