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05/31/2013 11:48 AM

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WHOLEMEAL & RYE BREAD (TANGZHONG) ??????

Diet? Why not a piece of rye bread!Nowadays, to optimize health benefits, more and more health conscious people opt to eat bread made of wholemeal grain rather than plain flour bread. Many believe, in fact is also proven, that bread made of wholemeal flour which contains higher fibre, vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants than the refined and bleached white bread flour is healthier. Wholemea

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04/28/2013 03:13 AM

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Satay Beef balls ?????

Homemade meat balls This simple savory flavor not only can be made into meat balls, it can easily be made into burger patties too. This quick and easy recipe is not only great to serve with pasta; it can also be awesome kid’s finger food for children party. When made into patties, it is excellent for BBQ too! Not in favor of beef? You can replace ground beef with any other meat to your prefe

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04/14/2013 03:56 AM

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Omelette ???

Serving home grown vegetablesOmelette is a recipe which needs no introduction. A basic omelette is so simple and easy to prepare that a kid can do it. For variations, it can be as simple as eggs, onion and milk mixture to rich cheesy, meat, seafood, vegetables and any combination of your choice. Vegetarian Omelette ??? To some, it can be a little tricky to cook an entire omel

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04/07/2013 09:34 AM

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African Violets ?????

My first flower gardening experience As a practical person, this trait has influenced my choices in gardening. I’m not keen in flower gardening but favour vegetables gardening because if I were to put in efforts into growing something, I’d rather have plants that I can harvest for consumption than for aesthetic appreciation. Some time ago, my company’s HR manager decided to do away with the

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03/31/2013 08:17 AM

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My 1st Project Runway

Barbie Fashion Project Runway During the school holidays last December, my niece in Penang, Kyra came to me saying that her mommy (my sister Cindy) told her that I was good at sewing and asked that I make some new clothes for her Barbie dolls. How could I possibly reject an adorable 7 years old’s request? So, I accepted her request and that gave birth to my 1st ever Barbie Fashion project runway!

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03/16/2013 05:28 AM

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Sewing DIY

Introducing my new Page - Sewing DIY This is a long overdue page that I supposed to put up long long time ago. Yes, if you refer to the top tab you will notice, there is a new tab menu name DIY. If you click on it, it will bring you to the page showing off some of the sewing projects that I had worked on. Box Bags Ray and his racing car design bag set

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03/10/2013 09:30 AM

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Turmeric Fried Fish ????

Crispy Nyonya fried fishThis is one of the common deep-fried fish dishes that you can easily find in economic rice (mixed rice) stalls or small eatery shops in Malaysia, Thailand and Singapore. With its crispy and crunchy texture, it is one of the kids’ favourite pick too! As you can tell from its name, the main spice used in this recipe is turmeric powder which is also one of the most important

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02/24/2013 09:37 AM

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Tomato Garlic Prawns ???????(?)

laughing prawns for an auspicious and happy reunion meal!10th February 2013 1st lunch of Lunar Calendar year of Snake (??????)- Part 2This Snake year, we had our family reunion dinner on the 9th February, the eve of the New Year, at the Penang Chinese Recreation Club (CRC) Restaurant. As expected this reunion package dinner set menu served many auspiciously sounding dishes such as Yee Sang ???, Sh

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02/17/2013 09:38 AM

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Hakka Pen Cai (????)

Traditional Hakka Cuisine – Come and enjoy a big bowl feast 10th February 2013 1st lunch of Lunar Calendar year of Snake (??????)- Part 1In contrary to the wide choices of Chinese meals available at various food outlets during the eve of CNY, it was hard to find any decent Chinese meals on the first and second day of CNY; not even the Chinese hawker/street foods! In Penang, many of th

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02/08/2013 07:56 AM

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Happy Chinese New Year 2013

Just want to wish all my Chinese friends and readers a prosperous, harmonious and healthy Snake year ahead!????,??????,????,????,????,????,????,????,????,????,???????! As usual we will be heading back to my hometown Penang for Chinese New Year celebration with our family members. In fact, by the time I finished typing this post it would leave us just 7 hours before we hit the road. Fingers cross

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01/28/2013 09:10 AM

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Yogurt Bread ??????

Hong Kong Pineapple buns into Pineapple loaf breadIt’s has been a while since I last made bread of new recipe. I went through the fridge and noticed I still had some left over homemade yogurt made last week. With that, it crossed my mind that I could try out making Yogurt Bread. The following recipe was adopted from the Taiwan famous bakery Master Meng 100 bread recipes (????100???) w

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01/12/2013 08:38 PM

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Pulau Aman Mee Udang (Prawn Noodles)

Care to have a bowl of Prawn Noodles?Following up from our recent trip to Batu Kawan,Seberang Perai to Auntie Chun Li’s house, we found out her house was only 2km away from Jetty Batu Musang, the gateway to Pulau Aman. We decided to take a ferry excursion trip to take a look at this small island. The island was merely a 10 minutes boat ride from Batu Musang Jetty, at RM6.00 per adult and RM4

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12/31/2012 10:59 AM

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Homemade Teo Chew Cai Kuih /Teo Chew Dumpling

This seem to be my last post for year 2012, with just second away to 2013. I would like to wish all of you : Happy New Year !Welcome 2013Penang Teo Chew Vegetarian Cai KuihOn the 15th December, we made a road trip to our hometown in Penang and later on our return journey extended our trip to Batu Kawan, a small town located along the route not far from Penang, to visit Auntie Lan’s sister. Au

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12/04/2012 09:52 AM

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Sun, Sea,Sand and Thai food

Escape to Koh LipeThis year instead of our yearly routine family island trip to Redang Island, we decided to try out new island since we noticed Redang island was getting overly crowded and so commercialised that the nature of the island was deteriorating quickly each year and it was no longer as secluded as our past experience. A few years ago, we started to hear about Koh Lipe, one of the island

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11/15/2012 08:45 AM

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Cheese and Bacon Scones ??????

Are you new in baking yet wish to bake your own bread with zero failure? Not much time to spare in the morning yet longing for a good English breakfast? Then this recipe is the best bet for you. JThis recipe is very simple. Just mix dry and wet ingredients, no yeast, no long proofing time and with some light kneading before throwing the dough mixture into oven. Voila! You get to

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10/28/2012 05:50 AM

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Sweet Sesame Seeds Buns ???????

My First Stand Mixer Some of you might still remember I mentioned in my pervious post I was seriously looking for a budget stand mixer to help with dough kneading and my dilemma of not willing to get a branded mixer due to its expensive import pricing in Malaysia. After months of surveying, finally in Oct, I was delighted to spot an awesome deal in Malaysia Groupon. The deal came from a locally ma

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10/14/2012 09:21 AM

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Banana Yogurt Muffins ??????

Banana Muffins + Yogurt = Banana Yogurt Muffins With my success of making homemade yogurt, it motivated me further to use it in my baking recipes since now I get to have this ingredient easily and inexpensively. With that, I started off my 1st experience in using my homemade yogurt to improvise my fool-proved simple and easy banana muffin recipe by replacing the milk content with yogurt and

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09/29/2012 01:13 AM

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Mung bean Paste ????

HAPPY MOONCAKE FESTIVAL ?????!In advance of the mid autumn festival (a.k.a. mooncake festival) tomorrow,I would like to take this opportunity to wish all my friends, relatives and readers a happy moon cake festival and happy reunion with your family.To the Chinese, especially those staying away from their home town, the mid autumn festival (???????)is a big day for them to rush

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09/22/2012 12:26 AM

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HOMEMADE PASSION FRUIT YOGURT???????

Healthy and Cost effective homemade yogurtI forgot where I heard this quote which said there were 2 good habits that’re all good and no bad - swimming and yogurt! Hubby is a strong believer in this quote and has been promoting this health message to our boy from young. Frankly, I must admit all these years I have had no problem practicing the 1st habit but not so much on the yogurt part. Th

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09/08/2012 02:06 AM

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Palm Sugar Steamed Cake ?????

24th August 2012 marked the 8thday of the 7th month in the Lunar calendar and was my late mother in law’s 4 years passing anniversary. To commemorate that, Auntie Lan reminded us to pay respect by making a lunch meal as prayer offering at home.With a week-long Raya break at home not going anywhere, I offered to make cake and my signature dish Hong Kong Style Crispy Roasted Pork Be

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08/31/2012 01:28 AM

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Lam Mee/Birthday Noodles ??

Nyonya Lam MeeTraditionally for the older generations in Penang, Lam Mee is a must serve during birthday celebration to symbolize longevity. Therefore last July when we had a small birthday party for Ming Ray, his favourite Auntie Lan insisted to make Lam Mee as his main lunch meal. The specialty of this dish lies in the gravy, which is made of clear soup by boiling pork ri

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08/25/2012 11:39 PM

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Thai Style Deep-fried Fish Fillet ?????

With a week of Raya holiday at home, I decided to spend some time to tidy up my photo folders and blog posts which was long overdue in my “to do” list. I was surprised to find this blog post left in the folder yet to be published. It was over a year old post which I wrote in the final week in Auckland in March 2011.Last Thai in AucklandWith our fridge sold in preparation for our repatriation

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08/23/2012 01:05 AM

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Cranberry Chocolate Chip Cookies ????????

Last Friday when Ming Ray learnt that my sister from Penang planned to bring her daughter Kyra to spend a weekend with us in KL during the Raya holiday, he anxiously counted down the days looking forward to welcoming his little cousin sister and to show her around. However, we were surprised with the little 6 years old Kyra asking for a baking session with me. Seeing my little niece being so keen

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08/22/2012 02:29 AM

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Wholemeal Pau ????

Healthy Pau I’ve been trying hard to keep my post up to date. However my current work schedule seems hard for me to keep up the pace. This was another month old birthday post, as this special healthy steamed bun/Pau was meant to be hubby’s birthday “cake” JHappy belated birthday dear! JHubby is never a pastry and sweet tooth guy, hence when I mentioned making a cake for him to cel

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08/21/2012 07:12 AM

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RED BEAN PASTE ????

Red Bean Paste fillingAs promised in my wholemeal steamed Pau post, this post I will illustrate how to make homemade red bean paste. Red bean paste is a common ingredient for Asian cuisine especially for Chinese and Japanese cuisines. It is usually used as a filling ingredient for buns, dumplings, desserts and confectionaries. I know it is not difficult to source ready-made red bean paste a

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07/24/2012 06:13 AM

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Dinosaur Cake ????

Dear Ming Ray,Happy belated 8th Birthday!Where has time gone? I just couldn’t believe we had just celebrated Ming Ray’s 8thbirthday last week! It felt like it was just yesterday when I still had him in me. Flashing back to the day of Ming Ray’s birth on the 14th July 2004, I can vividly recall the more than 6 hours labour agony ending in a forced C-section because of baby’s heartbeat dropped

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07/20/2012 02:47 AM

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Lady’s Fingers/Okra ???/??

From garden to table - Lady’s Fingers/Okra ?The short one was normal okra purchased from marketFollowing my previous gardening post, this post I wish to showcase one of my successful crops from my recent gardening experience. The star of the day is Lady’s Fingers /Okra.This tropical plant with its edible green seed pods is commonly known as "lady's fingers" in South East Asian region. However to

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07/11/2012 09:42 AM

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2012 Tropical Garden

My Malaysian garden experienceAfter taking a year to settle in with the job and a massive house make over renovation since we came back from Auckland in April 2011, in March 2012 I started to indulge in my gardening hobby again. Argh....how I missed my Auckland garden ! (click to view my Kiwi gardening experience)With the latest layout, all our back yard had been merged to be part of our construct

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07/07/2012 08:46 AM

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Bunga Kantan (Torch Ginger Flower Bud) ??

From garden to table Etlingera Elatior, the scientific name for TorchGinger Flower, or Bunga Kantan in Malay and ?? in Chinese, is a type of tropical flower commonly found in South East Asia. Its pink flower bud is particularly important to be used as a spice ingredient in Malay and Nyonya cuisine, with its distinctive, aromatic fragrance to zest up curry and seafood stews i.e. Tomyam and Lak

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07/01/2012 05:41 AM

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Tofu with salted fish and minced meat ???????

Quick and easy 30 minutes mealsIf you are a working mom who loves cooking, who still prefers to make delicious home cooked meal for your love ones at home after a long day at work. Following recipe that I’m going to share is a great recipe for you.This tofu dish is so quick and easy that you can serve it on dinner table in less than 30 minutes even if you included the dish preparation time. This d

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06/23/2012 04:07 AM

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Happy Dragon Boat Festival - ?????

????????Today is the 5th day of the 5th month in Lunar calender, a significant day celebrated by the Chinese world wide (Duan wu jie) ???. This traditional custom has long been practised annually for more than 2000 years in China, commemorating a famous patriotic poet Qu Yuan (340-278 BC). I am not going to elabroate the history, you can clic

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06/12/2012 05:35 AM

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Butter Cheese Buns ??????

Butter and cheese, perfect match!I started to make this dough a night before to try out the slow rising method. Letting the dough rise in the fridge overnight saved time and increased flavor to the dough. That night after dinner, I started to prepare the ingredients. After pouring all needed ingredients into the mixing bowl, I sat down in front of the TV and applied my multitaskin

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05/30/2012 10:24 AM

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Chicken Herbal Soup ????

Let’s have a bowl of nourishing tonic soupChinese herbal soup is good for replenishing certain nutrients needed by our bodies; stimulating appetite and especially good for women either during pregnancy or post delivery. For post delivery, one of the key herbs to be added in is Dang Gui (??), a common ingredient used during confinement period to speed up after birth recovery. However, this nourishi

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05/13/2012 04:28 AM

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Madeira cake ?????

Classic English CakeWhen I found out our newly recruited HR manager was going to celebrate her birthday on Sunday, 29th April, I decided to make her a birthday cake to share it in our Friday morning tea meeting in conjunction with the welcoming of her joining the company. However, given the short notice and a week day, I didn’t have much time to prepare in the evening after work. Eventually

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04/28/2012 09:15 PM

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Victoria Sandwich ?????????

Pandan Victoria SandwichVictoria Sandwich is one of the classic English tea time treats. From the name you can easily guess it must be named after Queen Victoria, who favoured a slice of this sponge cake with her afternoon tea. I adopted this cake recipe from Agnes Chang “ I can bake”. You can have many variations by substituting the spreads with various kinds of fruit jam.In conjunctio

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04/20/2012 11:54 PM

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Custard Cream Puff ?? (???) ??

Pâte à choux Hubby is not a sweet-toothed person as he does not favour most pastries except for cream puff. For him to appreciate my baking, I reckoned it was time for me to learn his favourite pastry – Cream Puff.Cream puff was originated from French pastry name Choux Pastry or Pâte à chouxwith butter, water, flour, and eggs as main ingredients. I had a cook book from Agnes Chang illustrati

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04/20/2012 11:39 PM

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Pandan Bread ??????

Since I resumed my baking hobby, I gave myself a target to explore at least one new baking recipe a week. Below is another bread recipe I adapted from a new local bread making cook book I bought recently. This recipe used one of the local plants, Pandan to enhance the bread flavour. Pandan a.k.a. Screwpine, is a common tropical plant widely used in Southeast Asian cooking. The natural green colori

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02/28/2012 12:59 AM

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Wholemeal Chocolate Marble Toast Bread ??????

My new Oven is in action!It has been a while since I last baked. Part of the reason was work while another was the condition of our house that underwent a major renovation for an extended period of time.I was waiting to get the new kitchen ready with a new oven before I could start to try out new baking recipes. However, it took us more than 4 months to get the house ready before I could put on an

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02/19/2012 07:20 AM

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Teochew Style Steam Fish ?????

????(?) To be abundant, to be plentiful year after yearI know this post comes a bit late since Chinese New year was over for 2 weeks now, better late than never I guess. J It is customary for Chinese to have a feast of symbolic dishes to welcome the Lunar New Year. There are a few “must serve” auspicious-sounding dishes during the Chinese New Year Eve "Family Reunion Dinner". Other than the usual

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01/31/2012 07:31 AM

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Assam Sambal Seafood Curry ????????

Wanna a bowl of Nyonya curry to spice you up?As promised, here is the recipe that will spice you up using the Sambal Belacan Chili paste prepared in my previous post. The following version of seafood curry is more like the Nyonya style where Assam was used instead of coconut milk. Assam in English means tamarind. With tamarind as one of the ingredients, you can expect this is a sour and spicy curr

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01/29/2012 07:25 AM

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Sambal Belacan Chili paste????????

Sambal is one of the most popular spicy condiments used in Southeast-Asian-influenced cuisine. Belacan is a Malay word. It means dried shrimp paste. Sambal Belacan is dried shrimp chili paste. For Malaysian, Indonesian and Singaporean spicy food lover, sambal is one of the common spices easily found in their pantry. Due to the modern lifestyle many people opt to buy pre-packed readymade spic

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01/28/2012 07:18 AM

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Spinach ??

I made this dish for her funeral ceremony. I was sad I didn’t have the chance to cook this dish for her when she was alive as she was on tube for the last 3 years because she was not able to consume any solid food. However, as Chinese believe in after life, I hope her spirit got to appreciate what I had prepared for her.In addition to stir frying, spinach is good to serve in soup or even in porrid

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01/20/2012 09:44 AM

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Happy 2012 Chinese New Year ?????

Wishing You and Your Family A Happy, Healthy & Prosperous Dragon Year!???????????????????????????????????

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11/08/2011 09:28 PM

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Hand pulled Noodle/Lamian ???

Lanzhou Lamian (?????)Recently on a business trip to China, I had a little pleasant culinary surprise at Suzhou. One day I had a busy morning and ended up with a late lunch. I normally did not like to eat rice for lunch, so when I saw a small eatery noodle house nearby, I suggested to my colleague to try out their noodles. It was a small Xinjiang Muslim halal eatery shop tucked away in a lit

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10/24/2011 11:45 PM

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Non-bake Lemon Cheese Cake ????????

My first order!As mentioned in my previous post no bake cheese cake, during recent Raya lunch sharing session one of my colleagues shared with me that he brought back a slice of cheesecake for his little niece and she liked it so much that she wanted it for her birthday cake. I thought it was no more than a flattering compliment.2 weeks later, to my surprise he really approached me to ask fo

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10/22/2011 09:21 AM

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Non-bake Lemon Cheese Cake ????????

My first order! As mentioned in my previous post no bake cheese cake, during recent Raya lunch sharing session one of my colleagues shared with me that he brought back a slice of cheesecake for his little niece and she liked it so much that she wanted it for her birthday cake. I thought it was no more than a flattering compliment. 2 weeks later, to my surprise he really approac

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10/13/2011 11:15 PM

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Meat Floss Mayonnaise Buns ??????

Since I resumed working, I must confess that my passion in cooking, baking and blogging took a back seat in life. If you’ve following me, you would have noticed I was more lax in updating my blog posts than before. I have to apologise for that.From my recent posts, you would notice I worked more on baking rather than cooking right. Frankly, with a full time job, juggling work life bala

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10/13/2011 11:14 PM

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Meat Floss Mayonnaise Buns ??????

Since I resumed working, I must confess that my passion in cooking, baking and blogging took a back seat in life. If you’ve following me, you would have noticed I was more lax in updating my blog posts than before. I have to apologise for that. From my recent posts, you would notice I worked more on baking rather than cooking right. Frankly, with a full time job, jugglin

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09/26/2011 10:44 PM

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No bake Cheesecake ??????

Raya lunch Celebration Last week, I received an invitation from my finance team members to join their pot luck lunch on Monday in the office in celebration of Raya Adilfitri (Muslim New Year). I happily accepted the invitation and even offered to bring one of my specialties to support their function. But later I realized that I would not have time to prepare fancy dishes in the morn

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09/10/2011 06:00 PM

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Taro/Yam Paste Fillings ????

Happy Moon Cake festival ! Next Monday in lunar calendar is 15th of the 8th month which marks a big day for the Chinese celebrating the Moon Cake Festival or Mid Autumn Festival ???. For those Chinese who celebrate this big occasion, moon cake is the main bakery product not to be missed. Moon cake is analogous to turkey for the Thanks Giving day or Ch

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	A blog to share my experience to fit in D.I.Y life style of NZ, as the saying "When in Rome, do as the Roman do" I started to occupy the kitchen messing up the stove and oven to come out with homemade cooking. I even started to dirt out my hands growing herbs and veggie for my cooking.

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