What do you do with leftover mandarin oranges after the Chinese New Year? Put them to good use in a nice dessert cake such as this very delicious mandarin orange and cheese cake slices. But if you are too lazy … Read more
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Mandarin Orange and Cheese Cake Slices
Posted in Cake, Fruits
Tagged Baking, Cheese, Chilled, Chinese New Year, Dessert, Orange
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Eurasian Pang Susie (Sweet Potato Buns With Spiced Minced Pork)
Pang Susie, or Pang Susi, is an Eurasian snack that’s popularly consumed during the Easter or Christmas seasons. It is a very interesting snack with its dough made of mashed sweet potato, as well as with a spiced meat filling … Read more
Posted in Bun, Eurasian
Tagged Baking, Christmas, Easter, Pang Susie, Pork, Sweet Potato
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潮州軟糕 (Teochew Soft Cake)
This is a childhood snack of mine – the Teochew soft cake, or what one would call ‘neng go’ (soft cake) in Teochew. These ‘cakes’ can be commonly found in local bakeries and traditional Teochew pastry shops, available throughout the … Read more
Osthmanthus Flower Jelly (桂花糕）
The osthmanthus flower is a small, yellow (or white) flower that grows on small shrubs or trees and has a strong and sweet fragrance, which is why it is very popularly used as a flavour of tea as a dried … Read more
Posted in Chinese, Dessert
Tagged Boiling, Chilled, Chinese New Year, Jelly, Konnyaku, Osthmanthus
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The Ever Auspicious Fish Maw Soup
The smell of fish maw in the kitchen was very strong as I was boiling this ingredient in preparation of making this soup the night before. It smells like Chinese New Year; smells like how the kitchen and the entire … Read more
Posted in Chinese, Soup
Tagged Chinese New Year, Crab Meat, Fish Maw, Seafood, Wedding
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