I grew up in a culture where rice is a staple food, and almost every meal (that my mum cooked) would consist of boiled white rice served...

One of my favourite pastimes is grocery shopping, especially at the Asian supermarkets where I can spend a long time just looking through ...

Best ever Korean Fried Chicken (IMHO). Need I say more? Think of crispy chewy and crunchy batter coated in a candy-like sweet, spicy and ...

Sayur lodeh is a vegetable curry commonly found in Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia. The version I grew up with contains cabbage, eggpl...

  Mention the word "satay" and I am instantly reminded of my childhood years and years ago, how the Malay Satay Man would pedd...

I have a weakness for Indonesian grilled chicken (or Ayam Bakar as you will often find on Indonesian menus) - the char and smokiness fro...

This has been the dish of the month for me. I've made these mushrooms at least five times since the start of August, and I've enj...

Piri-piri is a Swahili word for "pepper pepper", and is also known as African Bird's Eye chilli. It is the predominant ingr...

  This is the most amazing and easy roast chicken ever. I'm dreaming of having this chicken again as I write this. I actually ate t...

  Here's a hot and spicy chicken dish that's quick and easy to prepare, and will have you going back for more! This tastes even ...

This is a Malaysian-Chinese style fish head curry, as opposed to the Indian-style which uses fish curry powder, curry leaves, fenugreek a...

There's been a lot of deep-fried wings going on in my house lately. I've been experimenting with different recipes to come up wi...

  This is the crispy pancake version of Singapore fried carrot cake, though there's some debate over whether it should be called ra...

It was a bright and sunny Sunday morning. I was riding in the car when this song started playing on the radio:   Whatever I said, wh...

I made these deep-fried curry puffs over the weekend when we had friends over for lunch (I figured just serving chicken rice might not...

Mutter paneer is a popular North Indian dish consisting of paneer ( cottage cheese ) and peas (mutter) cooked in a spiced tomato-based...

  Char Kuay Teow with sweet soy  If you know and love Malaysian food, then Char Kuay Teow needs no introduction. In terms of popul...

It took me this long to finally attempt making Assam Laksa,  and if mum says it's easy to prepare, she's quite right there. J...

Hello! It's been a while since I last did a proper post on my blog. Life has just been a little busy lately, and just when I thought ...

      The first time I had lamb shanks was at Mulligan's, an Irish restaurant in Sydney. I remember how tender the meat was and ...