Recipe for a nostalgic childhood treat which I will always associate with my grandfather
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Bak Kwa Sando for Chinese New Year
Breakfast for Champions, Chinese New Year edition: Homemade bak kwa (barbecued pork) sandwiched between sourdough shokupan bread
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Lablabi: A taste of a distant, foreign land
Recipe for a popular Tunisian breakfast street food featuring chickpeas that fills me with happiness.
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Karaage, Japanese fried chicken
Make some tasty karaage at home with this easy-to-follow recipe
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Char siu marinated in gin / Barbecue pork with gin
My dad used to work in sales and his job required him to meet clients around Singapore. This also meant that he could arrange his schedule such that he could either pick me up from or drop me off at school when I was in primary school (depending on whether my classes were in the…
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Asparagus gribiche toast
In Belgium, there is a certain bakery-cafe chain that claims that the tartine is a “signature Belgian open-faced sandwich”. I don’t understand what is characteristically Belgian about a piece of bread with various ingredients piled on top. If you ask me, a Belgian tartine looks like a Norweigian smørbrød or Russian buterbrod! Asparagus, green and white,…
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Not quite char siu
There are some things in life that cannot be rushed – such as stretching in the morning, reading a poem… and making char siu 叉燒. When I was in primary school, my dad would pick me up after class and we would have lunch together. We often went to a nearby kopitiam where my cousin and her…
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Fruitcake cookies with booze
I love alcohol-soaked fruits. My taste for boozy fruits started when I was a kid: Rum and raisin ice-cream was a regular treat after piano classes. Then came along brandied cherries, prunes in armagnac and pears poached in red wine as I got older. I like desserts that combine alcohol and fruits. For instance – black forest…
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What has onigiri to do with pork and sauerkraut?
We had Pennsylvania Deutsch pork sauerkraut yesterday. This is the third consecutive year that AB has made this traditional dish to mark the start of the new year. Today, it is more commonly known as “Pennsylvania Dutch pork sauerkraut” as the word “Deutsch” (the German endonym) sounds like “Dutch” in English. The German connection is…
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