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
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The Ever Auspicious Fish Maw Soup
Posted in Chinese, Soup
Tagged Chinese New Year, Crab Meat, Fish Maw, Seafood, Wedding
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Cantonese Chee Cheong Fun (Rice Noodle Roll)
This is my first attempt at creating rice noodle rolls (or what we call ‘chee chiong fun’). The usual way to make it is to use rice flour with a little potato or corn starch, the latter of which is … Read more
Bee Tai Mak Soup (Chinese Silver Needle Noodles)
I used to dislike eating silver needle noodles a lot when I was young. Whenever I fell sick, my mum would buy a packet of these for me to eat because that’s what sick people should eat when they have … Read more
Posted in Chinese, Noodles
Tagged Bee Tai Mak, Boiling, Mushroom, Pork, Prawnball, Silver Needles, Soup
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麻糍 (Muah Chee)
A new year is coming again. In three days’ time.
Posted in Chinese, Rice Cake, Snack
Tagged Glutinous Rice Flour, Microwave, Pasar Malam, Peanut
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Chinese Braised Noodles (Lor Mee)
Braised noodles, or what we more frequently call ‘lor mee’ in Singapore, is a noodle dish that uses thick and flat yellow noodles, served in a thick brown gravy sauce alongside fish cake slices, braised eggs and deep-fried fish slices. … Read more
