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Lyanne turned 3 last Dec 31st. Phew! She's 3. Time flies. She's not as chatty as Lydia, special in her own way. Handy in the kitchen, loves podding beans, peeling chestnuts and make cookies! And once she comes in to help, she stays until the end. Sweet girl. She just started Kindergarden, in a 4 year old class, but she's just 3 years and 5 days old. I worried..but I think she's doing fine. She

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Dear Readers, I've finally got all my goodies prepared and done! 5 more days to Reunion dinner and 6 more to the first day of CNY. Very near already!! I have baked another 3 more cookies, peanut cookies, Goiabinhas and Sugar cookies. Sorry I don't have the time to post up the two new cookies, maybe next time. Today I'm baking Prune Layer Cake for an aunt to bring back to New Zealand after CNY.

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This is another traditional Chinese snack. There are 2 types, one is called DanSan 蛋散 and another QiaoGuo 巧果. You probably might have heard about the word DanSan from Southpark, Cantonese version. Cartman(fat boy) is known as Dansan in the translated version. Dansan is also used to describe someone who is useless. "Lei jek dansan la, zhan mou yoong!" 你只蛋散啦，真没用 What's the difference between

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Woo Ha .... It literally translates as Taro Prawns. A Cantonese Chinese New Year Treat. Is it almost extinct here? Is it so? I'm not sure. But I think it's not very well known because it was super tedious to make. Very!!! And expensive too. Taros are not cheap. When people ask me what am I making with the taro I bought, they went blank when I said Woo Ha. They asked what is Woo Ha? . Prawns

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Last year, I did a cookie week for CNY, this year and Fried-Up week. Hopefully next year when CNY lands on end of February, I'll be doing a Dried Up week for CNY, because the sky is blue and air is dry when January begins.. right up until end of February. To start the ball, rolling... It's honeycomb cookies. Actually, this is not a Chinese thingy, you won't find this made by our China

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Initially I wanted to submit this to Swee San's Red/Green event. But, it didn't turn out as green or as red as I hoped for. So, I scraped the idea. I love granola bars. I find them addictive. Actually I love any cereal bar, but always find those packaged ones tooooo sweet. So, when I started making granola bars of which is different from muesli bars, I told myself, no more buying of any sort.  

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I made this for Lydia's Year End School (Kindergarden) Party. Being in a small town, it's something new for everybody, including me that has never eaten anything "rocky road". The teachers told me it was very good  (and special... and you may go nah) and every kid loved it. And the best time to try making such sweet stuff is when you have a large group of kids to feed. *evil grin* Well, when I

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Recipe tried out in May 2011 *I actually posted this on Monday, but my feed wasn't working due to me being itchy butt and added some widget in. I removed it and I'm glad that this blog is finally updated on your "blog list". Happy New Year! Err, a day late! Lyanne will start kindergarden this year and her first day will be on the 5th. I'm sure dear readers who are parents will be busy at this

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Christmas isn't about food. Christmas isn't about parties Christmas isn't about shopping for presents Christmas is about a gift... hmm... God's gift to us. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

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I still have more than 1000ml of Nielsen Massey Madagascar Bourbon Vanilla Extract when I made this. I knew the homemade version will take quite a while before it can be used, so I made it 1 year ahead. But I decided to give them away this year for Christmas as they were ready by now, dark and fragrant. I’ll make more later when I’m halfway through my big bottle. For those who don't know that

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On my quest searching for information on the pistachio cream used in Montebello, I came across this beautiful picture of a pear, filled with cream. AMAZING!!! I had extra pistachio cream from my Montebello Torte, and I happened to have red anjou pears in my fridge. That is the best coincidence ever because I rarely rarely buy anjou pears. Actually I rarely buy non Asian pears and HATE

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There's no autumn here. It's summer whole year long, 365 days a year, oh next year will be 366. Over the northern hemisphere, cranberries, pecans, pears and apples are in season few weeks back (some still are), and as usual, they land on our shores pretty much later. It may be Christmas soon, and it's usually associated with winter (but that's not the real thing anyway) so, it might be weird to

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Recipe tried out in April 2011 Pears are everywhere now! I don't want to miss this period to post so that you may be able to try these out too. This is one dessert that you can serve your guests if you’ve having a small scale entertainment with a Chinese menu. Looks beautiful when serve with stem still intact or sliced if you want. Lydia loved this, and asked for seconds the moment the one

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I wanted to do a Brocolli Xmas Tree, but has been contemplating between Chinese style or Western style. Not until Mike's relatives came back for the weekend, and I'm hosting them a dinner did I finally decided on how to do it. It'll be Chinese style :) What I will be making as parcels will also be determined by what's for dinner. Recently I picked up a new hobby, making noodles. So I asked

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Montebello is a pistachio and red berries combination created by the great Pierre Herme. I've seen some that goes with strawberries, some goes with raspberries. The combination is different for different things, for example, macarons are with raspberries and, confitures and entremets are with strawberries. Read more here. Initially I wanted to do a tube shaped sponge then top with strawberries

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My girls had a blast with these. They had fun "making" them and had fun eating them. This dough initially could yield 15 canes, but my dearies made cake, worms, balls with whatever they could grab from me. So, I only made 12 of them. I was glad these canes didn't unfurl or looked weird after steaming. picture's blurry, but I love this sweet look on their faces I am submitting this to the

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Recipe created in June 2011 Angku is Hokkien for Red Tortoise. Tortoises in Chinese culture symbolizes long life. And red is always the colour for celebration. Full moon is always an important milestone for an infant. Back in those days, mortality rate is high, and to pass thieir first month is something worth celebrating about and of course, we wish the child to live long, like a tortoise. LOL

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Recipe created in July 2011Few years back, when I saw Jamie Oliver making a jelly that has bubbles set within, I was struck! I want to try this out. Not the recipe, but the method.Not until lately did I. I used soft drinks instead of champagne so that it will be kid friendly. It doesn't look too fizzy, maybe my fruits were way too cold, some were actually frozen, like my blackberry. It was only

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Recipe created in June 2011 No....... this is not made in a bowl. I made this in a square pan. No egg whites involved too, just good old coconut milk and dragon fruit. I made this for Reuben's Full Moon Party and tried to use minimal food colouring for this jelly. I am not so keen to use sesame seeds as the watermelon seeds. So, in the end, I chose to use dragon fruit seeds as the

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Recipe tried out in August 2011 This is another beautiful recipe from my white elephant. Coleslaws or affectionately called as 'slaw'. It's basically a raw cabbage salad. The most common is found in KFC, the whitish cabbage mush served with your favourite fried chicken. My FIL who doesn't eat vegetables eats coleslaw. This version is cabbage free. The recipe in the book called for the apples

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Recipe created in July 2011 I admit, I didn't do a good job making ribbons. In a rush for dinner and photography, LOL! This salad is beautiful when eaten with a cloying meal, because of the sourish and spicy dressing. I prefer to pickle the onions in the dressing so that the flavour will mellow and be less pungent, but I like the pungency of onions, but it's definitely more pleasant when

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Salad made in August 2011 Pei Sze, this week is for you! Congratulations with the new move! Happy salad making. Caesar Salad, not Julius's I think. This is my twist on this classical salad. What should be in a Caesar Salad? Basically, romaine lettuce, croutons, olive oil, egg yolk, lemon juice, vinegar, worcestershire sauce, garlic, parmesan cheese, salt and black pepper. I have bastardized

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Recipe tried out in July 2011 Another post with the DDL that my brother brought back from Brazil. SSB or Min, does this qualify for the cupcake month for Aspiring Bakers? The cake in the book looked very pretty. I don't have any mini tube pans or anything like such. I only have lots of disposable aluminium muffin casings that I am dreading to finish up. So I used this in place of mini tube

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My brother will hate me. Here I go again, my brother went to Brazil and got me 2 tubs of Brazillian DDL. LOL. If you're (YWC) reading this, send me a laugh via Watsapp. After I tasted this, I understood why they use so much more DDL in their recipes of which I find to be so sweet. These from Brazil is less sweet compared to homemade ones. I can be more liberal with it when I'm using this

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Recipe tried out in March 2011. Long fancy name huh, LOL. Simplified, translated it's a 3 milk cake with Dulce De Leche. Refer here if you want to make your own DDL. I modified the recipe from Rose's Heavenly Cakes. I love the idea of a sponge soaked in milk, muahahahaha! So so sinful. Usually this cake is soaked with evaporated, fresh and condensed milk. But Rose's version ditched the

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I do get asked this question every now and then. Actually it's pretty easy. You won't even need an oven for this. If you are baking bread and it was a not so nice to eat bread, turn it into croutons. If you have a loaf of bread, almost expiring and you don't want to freeze it, turn it into croutons. If you want to save money and not buy these, make croutons Besides using these in salads, they

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Frankly, is this as light as air? Hmm.. maybe for western standard, it could be. I have never eaten breads besides what is made in Malaysia and Singapore Growing up with commercial breads made with chemicals like improvers and softeners, this bread is definitely not as light as air. Gardenia definitely is the winner, hands down. Which is why I prefer High 5 if I want to buy. High 5 has better

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I made this loaf twice. Being a new bread baker and attempting such recipes is a bit daunting. I do not even recognise when the bread is kneaded enough. I wasn't daring to knead it long and was doing a few silly mistakes like adding too much yeast or putting in sugar when I shouldn't be. In the end, my first attempt with this recipe flopped. It still became a loaf, but I added in a lot more

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moon effect from my camera's external flash My bread postings are soooo long overdue. It's time for me to flood you all with my breads. But don't worry, breads won't run for a month straight. But I can do bread month's' if I want to. It's crazy, as usual, that's me. This is not my first loaf.. I made a few loaves before this and I just wanted to post white sandwich loaves first. Hokkaido Milk

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Recipe done in March 2011 The name itself was interesting. I saw Jamie Oliver made this before on TV. But it was when Anne of Pigpig’s Corner  made this, I was sold by the way she described it. She was more convincing that Jamie himself. LOL. Pop over to her blog and read her 'testimonial'. I actually made this dish twice. First time. Didn't have sage but used thyme. Big mistake! The taste

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Dish prepared in July 2011 I'm calling this chicken dish this way to distinguish the usual soy sauce braised chicken that is oh-so common. As some of you may know, I come from Perak and in Perak, a lot of Cantonese terms are different from other parts of Malaysia. We call light soy sauce as 白油(bak yau) and dark soy sauce as 黑油(hak yau). I know it sounds funny to you, but it's the way it's

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Dish prepared in May 2011 Sick of the usual curry? Sick of the usual Chicken chop with mushroom sauce or brown sauce or even the traditional ketchup? Try this for a change. Before I got married, Mike and I went to Pangkor Laut Resort for a short getaway. At the beachfront café, we ordered some curry meatballs and the meatballs were smothered in a creamy curry sauce. Something very much unlike

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Recipe created in July 2011 I first saw onde onde kosong on Shirley’s blog. Kosong? Empty? Well, my favourite thing about onde onde is the palm sugar filling that oozes out when I bite into it. But then again, it very tedious to make. If you want the filling to ooze, you have to chop the sugar really fine and the wrapping process is so so difficult. If you chop it coarsely, chances are it won’t

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Recipe prepared in Dec 2010 During my 2nd trimester pregnant with Reuben, I wanted to drink sweet soups quite often. One early evening, I just wanted to have some, and I wanted black glutinous rice porridge. My hubby drove me to get some pandan leaf from an aunt's house and we went to buy the ingredients. I got home and prepared everything and by supper, it was ready. I loved it soooooooooo

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w Recipe tried out Nov 2010 Last year, when I went to Homekreation to ogle at her onde-onde pulut hitam made from black glutinous rice (BGR) flour, I mentioned I am looking for this BGR flour and she was so so so so kind that she offered to mailed me some. I was so so surprised at the offer, and of course, a bit shy to accept it. In the end, I still gave her my address and it arrived just before

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Recipe recreated in September 2011 One of my favourites. If you have an big bush of pandan and don't know how to use it up, make this. This kuih needs a lot of pandan leaves. I made this because I was given a lot of it by Mike's aunt. Well, besides that you can also cut up the pandan and use as cabinet deodorizers, it prevents pesky cockcroaches. Not a must to make edible things with pandan. I

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Recipe prepared in September 2010 It’s weird, I can’t find this version online. I tried to recreate this from a kuih vendor in Kampar. This version of a lower cassava layer and a upper sago layer is common in Kampar, Ipoh and Taiping. And instead of grating the cassava this time, I used the blender. Haha. Talk about being lazy. And it works just as well. The height of this kuih is about 1.5

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Recipe tried out in October 2010 My first encounter making xiban wasn't that nice. But this recipe is a totally different story. This is DELICIOUS, but that is if you like chewy chewy things. As always long fermentation always wins compared to short time fermented rice cakes. It's nice and chewy, soft even to the next day. The previous recipe was crumbly in less than 12 hours but not this one.

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First and foremost, I want to thank one person. Swee San. It was Swee San who messaged me one morning, telling me to join this contest. Before this I sort of knew there's one Masterchef thingy of which is not the real thing going on with Nuffnangers..but I never take note of it. I didn't bother about it. Swee San urged me to join, saying that.. I've got a huge chance to win it.  I was like....

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I won it??? Seriously, I'm still trying to suck it in. Swee San and I forcasted so many things.... and when I arrived early at site, I saw, so many dessert prone ingredients. It wasn't a pressure test, it's an invention test again, but with limited ingredients to choose from. The "black box" was small, as small like a sliced cake box. I quickly called Swee San, "Eh, looks like fritatta

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Ever eaten Prawns on sugarcane? It's a popular Vietnamese snack. This dish is a twist from the original version changing the sugarcane to lemongrass. So, if you ever had lots of sugarcane from Chinese New Year, you can try making these with sugarcane instead. I love lime with pineapple. Normally I don't eat pineapples except in bakes and with it caramelized it's just super. Lime somehow

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Mike's sis's in laws gave us a packet of frozen prawns, that were supposed to be very fresh because they always get their seafood supplies from the coastal areas. I didn't want to cook it in a complicated way and so I made it into a salad that I once tasted at Monte's in BSC. It's simple and nice and perfect for entertaining. The version I had was served with Thousand Island sauce, but, I

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I've eaten this once at a Thai food stall, not in Thailand but in Summit Subang Jaya. Sometimes there are Thai fairs and I love to go there for their food. I made them in sushi form. Cute? LOL. Remember few months back I said the weather was weird with durians in April? (not refering to durians from anywhere, but local durians. Our family only consumes durian grown few kilometers from town)

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 I first saw “ fake soft boiled eggs” on Sea Salt with Food. LOL. I told myself, I got to make these one day. Then I saw this on Masterchef Australia. Marion was doing her celebrity chef challenge and she was making a dessert served in an egg shell. I was busy with my kids, but I saw how she cut the egg shells and how she assembled her dessert. But I have no idea what dessert it was as I wasn’t

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These are my current favourite items in the kitchen. Some are brand specific, some are not. No one paid me anything in any form to note these as my favs. 1. Hand mixer. Ohh... with a KA on the counter doesn't mean I don't need this. I've been using this Philips baby since my Braun died on me in Dec 2007. Cheap at RM59, with priceless memory. I made so much good stuff with this thing. Frankly I

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I've been tagged by Shu Han of Mummy I Can Cook to play this game :) Thanks Shu Han for tagging me. I'm going to select posts that most of you have never seen, which are from my first 2 years of blogging. I have a lot of favourites, so it's hard to get only 7 out of 539 posts. LOL. 1. Barazek. A middle eastern cookie that is my first Step by Step post. Pictures maybe horrible because my hubby

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Some of you might know that I'm fussy about food names. Yam/Taro or Amaranth/Spinach. Or how sometimes when some fellow bloggers finds some weird fruit, and that will make me go on a crazy frenzy trying to identify them. I graduated with a Minor in Horticulture. What's horticulture? In short, I studied about plants with commercial value like vegetables, fruit and ornamental flowers. Now you know

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First of all, a big sorry to all my readers. I promised pictures of my new kitchen even before Reuben was born. Now he's hitting 4 months old already and I'm only getting the pictures out. So, here is my kitchen. Nothing fancy about it, just a kitchen. Before that, let me clarify that I'm not rich. I just happen to stay in a small town where property is affordable and renovation workmanship

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If you think that if you don't have an ice cream maker, your ice cream will be grainy and icy. Then you should try this. It's smoooooooooooooth. Maybe due to the absense of water or liquids, this semifreddo is smooooooooooth. The yolks used here are raw, therefore I recommend that you get yourself some pasteurized eggs, available in major supermarkets in the chiller section. I rewrote the

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Last 2 weeks when I went to KL to meet up with fellow bloggers like Swee San, Reese, Sonia, Ann and Veronica, Swee San brought a box of macarons. She knew my first experience with macarons was a nightmare. When she described in her blog that it was sweet til the roots of my teeth, it was actually understated. The fact was, it was so sweet that it burned my throat. She had been hoping that I

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A dessert that looks better than it tastes. If you love white bread with jam, maybe you'd like this. But I'm the type that must have white bread with BUTTER and jam. So, this is kinda off for me. I also served this with plain yogurt, which might have been unsuitable. Whipped cream might have been better. As whipped cream will give it that dairy taste like what butter will give me. I made this

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Just have this crazy idea of using salted egg to fry rice. Wonder if it'll give it that wonderful eggy aroma that it gives to chicken, crab and prawns. Verdict? It was just so-so. The aroma is not that prominent. But wonder if that'll be rectified by using double amount of egg yolks? Maybe you can use up those egg yolks from your mooncakes if you refuse to eat them up, but I doubt it. That is

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Many many months back, Gertrude from My Kitchen Snippets organized a simple contest by guessing the flavour of her chiffon. And well, I sort of won it. And she sent me some cupcake liners and a pack of wild rice as my present. Wild rice!!! I never would’ve thought I will get a pack of that. It made a very nice gift, something that we cannot buy here. And finally today(many months back), I got my

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I came across this porridge at Cheah’s blog. Before I saw her post on this, I’ve already planned to cook mussel, lean pork and peanut porridge for Sunday breakfast. But then, as I saw hers, I can’t help but go and buy myself some dried oysters instead of using mussels. And I was totally intrigued by the fact she added in oatmeal to her porridge. Is that her method to balance up the amount of

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Remember I asked Lydia what cake she wanted? Her first answer was rainbow cake. So, I thought of making her an upright rainbow cake. The rainbow will be nestled on clouds on a bed of 'sky'.And the cake will be brought to kindergarden to be shared with friends. Only kids will be able to take on so much 'colours'. What are the cakes used? The sky cake was a tray baked Designer Chocolate Baby

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The 2nd cake of the week. Yes, I made 3 birthday cakes within 6 days. Lydia's 2nd cake will be posted on Friday. I'm finding time to get the pictures done. Not easy to squeeze time. Which is why my posts are rarely 2 weeks fresh. :p I made this cake for my one and only BIL, Mike's younger brother Nic. He likes cream cakes, and last year I made him a not so successful Chocolate Banana Cake. His

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  My dearie Lydia turned 4 last week on 28th. This year she has grown a lot, luckily vertically. A lot of her clothes can't fit already. Turning from one of the shorter ones to one of the taller ones in class. As usual I make her 2 cakes. I can't let the presense of baby Reuben to change anything. I asked her, what cake she wants... Rainbow cake. 2 weeks later, she asked for Flower Cake. But too

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My mother's parents came from GuangXi, China. If you've heard of the beautiful mountains of GuiLin, that is located in GuangXi. But my maternal grandparents are not from GuiLin, but from Rongxian 容县, which is located in the South of Guangxi. So that makes me half Cantonese half Guangxi. Can I speak the Guangxi dialect? My mom refused to teach us, saying that this dialect is of no use here. No

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Puppy Duck isn’t cooked with dog meat. Relieved? It’s duck cooked like how one will cook dog meat. Why cook duck like one would cook dog? Frankly, they do taste similar So that when one craves for dog meat, just cook duck to ease the craving. You may want to ask, “Wendy, how do you know they taste similar?” Don’t ask. You don’t want to know. My paternal lineage are Panyu Cantonese 广府番禺. FYI,

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Flax seeds are nutritious. According to Wikipedia, besides being high in fibre and omega-3 fatty acids, it also helps to lower cholesterol and benefits those who are having breast and prostrate cancer. If you're diabetic, it's also good for you because it helps by stabilizing your blood sugar. But take this with caution if you are on oral medication. It's high fibre content may interrupt with

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I've been looking for new ways to form my steamed buns or mantou and this is one of them. If you want to make a heartfelt low cost present for your loved one, try making this and form it into a bouquet. Every bite of it sure comes full with sincerity and bliss :p My girls refused to take the regular shaped ones (croissant shaped), but were all over my rose buds. But these were quite time

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I love these buns. When they were steaming, they smelled so good. But Mike hated it. Mike only likes Sweet Potato Buns. He even hates my kids’ favourite glorious pumpkin buns. He said this smell like our kids’ s*** Remember my banana honey bread, yes the Jamie Oliver banana bread, that is a true bread. It wasn’t that nice. It was tough. After a few years of baking, I’ve come to know that, when

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A cake that I can pass around making people think it's healthy. LOL. I just said, this cake has oats in it and they replied, "It's healthy, yumz" LOL. So, if you want to make yourself 'feel' better when devouring a cake, try this out. LOL. Reasons, whether valid or not, just eat. One regret with this cake. I shouldn't have used fortuna plums, instead go for black plums. Black plums when baked

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Gosh, I wasted so many peaches when I planned on making this. I bought some, didn't have time as it was CNY. Some grew mould before I had the chance to use it. And I bought more and more peaches, each time telling myself ,"get ur butt moving!!". I finally made it in April this year. Australian peaches were selling for RM4.99 per fruit that time. Recently I saw in Jusco, American peaches are at

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This is the cake that I've been wanting to make for the longest of time. I recieved this cookbook from Aunt Grace for Christmas when I was 15. I was totally taken by the look of the cherry cake featured in the book. During that time, fresh cherries are unheard of.  I had my first taste of fresh cherries when my friend Yoke Waie gave me some after his parents returned from a holiday in Australia

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Just made this cake last week, so it's a 'fresh' post. LOL. FYI, I'm still posting a lot of back logs due to the theme thingy. If it's a cake week, I didn't bake all the cakes that week, they were collected over time. So, LOL, please be informed I didn't eat pancakes for one week nor cook noodles 3 times a week. Lately Lyanne has been on a picking streak. She was as picky as Lydia was when

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I first tried baby green beans fried this way in a vegetarian shop in Damansara Uptown. I went to dinner with my friend and his father who is a vegetarian. That was my first time eating olive vegetable. After that I went searching for it and found some in Carrefour. I took the cheapest one, Singlong brand and I can tell you, it was nothing like what I tasted at the restaurant. It was very oily

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First and foremost, okra is not a bean.  Botanically it's a fruit, being in the same family as Hibiscus. But generally, here, culinary wise,  it's called a bean due to it's longish shape. Just like pine nuts are not real nuts, but are called nuts. Same goes to macadamia which is a kernel and not a real nut. If you watched Masterchef Australia you would've remembered the day Marion, Jonathan and

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Have you ever tasted a Ham Chin Peng (咸煎饼Chinese fried “bun”) flavoured fried banana? Haha, this is one. When I saw a bunch of plantains at a Malay stall, I immediately wanted to buy one. Just this one cost me RM3. It seemed pretty expensive for just 1 banana right? But when I asked Mike’s worker, who owns a banana plantation herself about the plantain I just bought, she said, it’s usually sold

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When I was a kid, there were some homemakers trying to make an extra buck by selling popsicles. We will either call from the door or the window in Cantonese, “ Aunty, Ngo Ngoi Mai Suit Tiu” ( Aunty, I want to buy popsicle, 阿姨，我要买雪条) Then someone will answer us, maybe not the Aunty, maybe their kid or any other person in the house. “Ngoi mat yeh mei?” (What flavour do you want? 要什么味?) Then we

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Currently I’m living in a town where the food sucks. Sucks BIG TIME!! Wedding dinners here are either avoided by the younger generation or are forced by parents to be held at community halls, which is a far cry from prettily decorated dining halls in cities. Usually KK folks travel to Sungai Siput for restaurant cooked meals and they taste a lot lot better and are a lot cheaper than in KK.

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Char Kway Teow (Fried Flat Rice Noodles) is how the world knows it. Hum Darn Fun (Cockle Egg Rice Noodles) is how we Kamparians call it. FYI, Kampar is a small Chinese majority town in the state of Perak. I grew up not knowing what is Kway Teow. More so know I didn't know its Cantonese translation as Guai Diu I grew up eating Hor Fun or some call it Sar Hor Fun, that's how the Cantonese call

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My secondary school (13-17 age) had a really large canteen. How large? As long as 6 classrooms, as wide as 2 labs. Everyday we’d look forward to beak time so that we can run down and be the first in line to get our food. Each session of break(3 sessions in total), you’d see 800 students scrambling to the canteen (the school had 48 classes in the morning and 16 classes in the afternoon, so 2

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Our family business, which was a coffee stall passed down since my great grandpa’s days, was situated next to a noodle shop for almost 40 years. The noodle shop make their own wonton skins and wonton noodles. So, they tend to have excess bits from the sides or some broken pieces that can’t be used to wrap the wontons. What they’ll do is, they’ll dry the unusable wonton skins and collect a heck

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If you love dense pancakes, then skip this. This is a soft and fluffy pancake, that uses CREAM!! Hahaha. If you have that carton of cream and you are scratching your brains on how to use more of it before it spoils, try this out. The pancake uses cream, so does the pastry cream. *For more whipping cream recipes, check out my whipping cream label on the far right. Usually pastry cream uses

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Don’t u think it’s weird to have durians in April? (I did this in April 2011) All my life, on this side of the country, durians have always been bountiful mid year and year end. Never has it been in APRIL!!!! With none during those usual times. I had been searching for durians last Dec (2010), with only a speckful of them around town and the quality isn’t there. This didn't happen only last

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Remember the sponge pancake? It was a lazy afternoon and I had some Korean strawberries and lots of cream in the fridge waiting for me to use use use. Let's just say, 3 cartons of half used or quarter used whipping cream, altogether 1.6L. Blame them on bake orders. They all came 5 days apart and I never sell bakes made from an old pack of cream (more than 3 days). Always new pack. Which is

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I made this for tea. And I gobbled it all up by myself. Leaving non for my girls. Haha! So bad of me. Well, they were napping and I was hungry. I had some pandan leaves in the fridge and some coconut milk so why not make something simple and nice. Haha, I can still make these for them tomorrow. This is a sweet version for roti jala (lacy crepes). Roti jala is a Malay crepe, that is usually

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I'm sure this is a true local practice for Full Moon. Not a Chinese way, but more of  Malaysian. Here, there are a few foods used to celebrate full moon of the baby. Some serve or giveaway Pork Trotters in Vinegar, while some will prefer turmeric rice. If I'm not mistaken (pls correct me if I am wrong), the Malays use this for celebrations. For weddings, for giving thanks, for birthdays.. and

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One of the favs of full moon!! Some look forward to pork trotters vinegar. Some look forward to turmeric rice with curry chicken. Some look forward to pickled young ginger. But most look forward to pickled papaya. I guess pickled papaya is a local full moon fare. I don't think in China this is served. Do papayas grow there? I don't know, but it's like anywhere and everywhere here (besides in

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One of the must haves for Full Moon. The only ginger that my hubby likes. He is a ginger hater, but he loves pickled ginger. It sounds easy to make pickled ginger. But it's not easy to make nice tasting pickled ginger. I've tasted quite a lot of not so nice ones before. Either too salty, too fiery, or not sourish enough or not enough sugar. One must be daring enough to put in vinegar and sugar.

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Today Reuben is a month old. Full Moon of the new baby is celebrated by the Chinese community to mark the baby being one month old. Usually either food is given out in packs or a reception will be done either at home or at restaurants. Whatever it is, it is celebrated with joy and cheer. Back in those days.. when infant mortality rate is high, to get to a month old, is something BIG. Nowadays,

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If you are curious about what I ate throughout my confinement, this is my weekly menu. I've received emails way before I even started posting about confinement,  asking about the food I eat or the food I recommend. So, here is my menu for your reference. It may not be acceptable to some. So, do refer to the menu at your own discretion. During my 2nd confinement (Lyanne's time), I prepared a menu

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A dish I created during confinement. But suitable for any occasion. My confinement lady prepared everything I told her and I cooked this myself. Some may say, don't consume turmeric right after delivery, as the baby's jaundice might get worse. My mom told me to wait for 2 weeks. Yellow = Jaundice. ????  The myth is due to the colour. Is is true?? Well, turmeric is a type of ginger and doctors

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My brother went to Korea lately and bought a large pack of Korean seaweed for his wife and I. He knew I was going to write this way and told me not to write this 'line'. Haha, too bad bro!. My SIL just had a baby, Arianna 5 weeks before Reuben came by. Yes, he is Reuben for life now. It's black and white in his birth certificate. My dear brother then bought the beef stock powder from Jaya

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One of the traditional confinement dishes. I hear, it's the standard "confinement breakfast". My confinement lady told me, most of her clients will only eat this for breakfast, FOR ONE WHOLE MONTH!!! I'll die, die not from the ginger's heat, but from boredom. I only consume this once per week for lunch, not breakfast. It'll be too heavy if this is for breakfast. Take note that only sesame oil

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When I saw this recipe on Little Inbox's, I knew, I'll cook this for my confinement. I don't like to eat the same thing over and over again, so I am eager to try out anything suitable during this "restricting" month to broaden my menu. And it's a family friendly recipe. I dine with my family every night, therefore I do not consume real confinement dishes at night. Real confinement dishes are

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Looks like a Chinese stir fry? Haha, no this is a recipe from a Westerner. I've bookmarked this recipe way before I knew I was going to have a baby. It was at the same time when I did the double fennel roasted chicken. Back then I was searching for ways and methods to use up the first fennel I bought and this recipe was KIVed. And now, it's into good use. Fennel is a galactagogue and onions

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Sick of chicken soups?  Sick of braised chickens? Try roasted during confinement or not. Fennel is a galactagogue, meaning, it helps you by giving you more milk. Whereas thyme is one of the ingredients in DOM. And thyme has oxytoxin-effects meaning, it helps with contractions. After delivery, the uterus needs to contract back to it original state. I read in wikipedia, thyme tea is often given

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For confinement, the menu is always chicken, chicken, chicken, chicken, chicken. Almost daily it's chicken. From what I know, the Malays do not consume chicken for confinement as they believe it causes itchiness. My colleagues were surprised we eat so much chicken during confinement. But when I told them, we believe it's the male chickens (rooster, cockerel) that causes itchiness or other

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Haha, Yeah, I'm all into anything that gives me more milk. Just anything!!! This time around I changed my red date tea formula. After reading on the internet about galactagogues, I got to know a common Chinese herb is one of it. It's astragalus root , 黃耆 or  北耆. My mom will sometimes put this into her soups. And then I went searching for 发奶茶 (lactating tea), and got to know another herb that is

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Confinement should be an enjoyable time. Bonding with a new baby, and getting pampered by the people around you after delivery. Gastronomically and emotionally. So why not have some dessert!! My friend, Wai Wai came to visit me on June 4th and told me about this dessert that she encountered during her stay at a confinement house. The cook prepared this dessert to aid her lactation. And

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Last time, when I had Lydia, I didn't know much about breastfeeding, and yet the inexperienced me didn't do much to have more milk. Now don't tell me, the more the baby sucks, the more I'll have. Oh yes, but I do believe that comes to a certain limit for different individuals. I've one relative whose baby has never suckled and yet can pump 6 oz of milk on first attempt, and thereafter 2 bottles

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Hihihi! First of all, thank you for all the well wishes and concern conveyed. I truly appreciate them. Secondly, I'm fine, alive and kicking, fed well, resting well and everything's well. Thirdly, sorry for not posting Mr R's picture for so long. His name is actually............ not confirmed, but then again, I'll still give out the gift according to the original intended name. The winners

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Hi, I haven't deliver yet. My water level's not that good. Doc's not letting me wait past my EDD, which is June 1. Which means, Mr R is coming out to meet the world by hook or by crook on Wednesday morning. I'm in perfect health, no blood sugar, no hypertension(instead I used to have hypo), no swelling, placenta's good, everything good! Just the water level. Sigh!!! I'm praying hard that he'll

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Days are hot. I’m boiling herbal drinks almost every day to cool down. Mustard greens taste bitter. It’s the only bitter veggie that I consume, and not only consume, you can say I’m like crazy for it. I won’t be able to resist any dish with this. Be it the “rubbish vege” that we do with leftover dishes, or the banquet dish of Mustard Greens with Mushrooms, or just a simple stir fry of Mustard

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This is one very very very delicious soup.I wanted to try making broccoli soup, and it so happened that I have a salmon steak in my freezer. Salmons are very sweet. They make everything they swim in (well, they’re dead in the pot of course) extra tasty, extra sweet. And when my hubby saw me use the salmon he told me to buy few days back in the soup, he said, “Then what porridge shall I eat later

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Brassicas or Crucifers are a group of vegetables that include stuff like cabbages, choy sum, radish, daikon, mustard, brussels sprouts, cauliflowers and broccoli. Brassicas are good for you as they are high in vitamin C, soluble fibre and contain multiple nutrients and phytochemicals with potential anti-cancer properties. Most of the vegetables we consume are from this family, even Wasabi is.

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This is my first time trying fresh local passionfruit. Somehow it doesn’t taste like those commercial flavours. It’s very much like Cosway’s Markisa Juice. And after doing some reading up, the local variety available here is indeed markisa. The skin’s pinkish rather than purplish or yellowish. So for those of you who is yearning for some passionfruit bakes but find it hard to get the pulp or

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My colleague ordered this cake for her daughter few weeks back before I moved.I used Alex Goh's recipe and as always it always crack in my oven. I didn't whip the cream, and instead used sour cream, still it cracked.Hated it. So, I hid the cracks with some make up And here's the cake Pn Tan, Hope your girl and your family loved the cake

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