My mum loves cooking herbal chicken soup for us and has been doing that since eons ago. Just like any TCM doctor or believer, or the older generation in general, she believes that drinking this soup will not only help … Read more
Category Archives: Soup
Tom Kha Kai With Pumpkin
Tom Kha Kai is a Thai soup dish that’s cooked using various fragrant roots such as lemongrass, galangal, shallot, cooked in a coconut soup base. It can be cooked with a lot of spice (lots of chilli), but in my … Read more
Kimchi & Gyoza Nabe (Hotpot)
‘Nabe’ means a Japanese cooking pot, or a stew or soup cooked in such a pot. For this recipe, it means a soup or stew that is cooked in a large cooking pot (I used my favourite Dutch oven instead), … Read more
家常便饭 – 菠菜汤 (Spinach Soup )
This dish looks simple and unappetising at first sight. Just a bowl of soup with a lot of greens in it. It’s akin to the small bowl of soup that hawkers place alongside your bowl of bak chor mee and … Read more
Sayur Lodeh (Vegetables in Coconut Milk)
Sayur lodeh is a very popular Malay dish in Singapore and Malaysia. ‘Sayur’ means ‘vegetables’, while ‘lodeh’ means refers to an ingredients that is cooked until soft. This dish originated from Indonesia, and is commonly served alongside rice or rice … Read more