Potato And Luncheon Cubes Bathed In Tomato Sauce

Tomato sauce goes well with most food, both as a dipping sauce and as a condiment. As the latter, it is easily absorbed to create flavour, which helps in creating a healthy and appetising outlook for the dish.

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Chinatown On A Saturday – A Walk Down Memory Lane

Da Zhong Guo

Reminiscence. Unequivocal sentiments and longing. This is the place in which I grew up and gradually grew to become fond of.

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I Stole The Mango From The Fridge To Make Mango Sticky Rice

Mango Sticky Rice

It was sitting idle in the fridge anyway.

In any case, not only did I get the kick from stealing food out of my own fridge, it was also my first attempt taking such shots with my tripod, thanks to the untimely setting of the sun casting long shadows across the dish.

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Rice Dumpling a.k.a. Dragon Boat Festival

Rice Dumpling Ingredients

It was a tag-team effort: I cooked the rice and prepared the ingredients; he wrapped up the dumplings and secured them with strings. Nevertheless, the collaborative effort took an entire day before we could wrap it up.

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Roast Pork Belly With Mixed Results (And Emotions)

Roast Pork Belly

What was to be a Sunday full of surprises turned out to be a complete disappointment. Well, in the first place, one can never expect to find a huge chunk of pork belly laying in the fridge of the pathetically small NTUC at Tiong Bahru Plaza. So where else to look for it but at the conventionally (in)famous Tiong Bahru Market? So I made my way down to the market, and pretty soon, a friendly hawker beckoned to me and peddled a 1.5kg piece of pork belly at the ‘best’ price of $12.50 per kg. I happily snatched up the purchase, impressed by how easily the transaction went.

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