A mutual friend of ours recently got married and we were very fortunate to be able to get invited to the wedding to witness their blissful marriage at the Four Seasons Hotel. The wedding lunch was a standard eight course … Read more
Category Archives: Chinese
Double Steaming Fish Maw Soup In Young Coconut
Double steaming is a common method used in Chinese cuisines to cook soup with ingredients that are expensive (e.g. bird’s nest, herbal soup). This is usually done in a ceramics jar or sometimes even in melons or coconuts which can … Read more
Potong Style Red Bean Popsicles
I’ve tried quite a few red bean ice-cream recipes, including the Japanese style ‘Creamy Red Bean Popsicles‘ using Azuki red bean paste and heavy cream, and the ‘Red Bean Soup Popsicle‘ which really was a convenient way of using up … Read more
Osthmanthus Butter Cookies To Celebrate The Year Of Ox
This weekend will be a busy weekend for me, not really because of all the visiting we will have to fulfil (there are in fact less visiting chores this year), but because I am packing in a long list of … Read more
Hot Pot Sesame Peanut Dip for my Chinese New Year Feast
A week more to Chinese New Year in Singapore. Everyone is looking forward to a better year ahead – so am I.