Archive for December, 2010
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Homemade Rissoles
Nothing quite says ‘you’re home’ than about 3 or 4 rissoles with a coffee or tea. Wrapped in a thin spring roll skin which is then breadcrumbed and fried is a creamy mixture of chicken meat and vegetables. Really one …
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Chicken Rice, Kuala Lumpur
Classic Chicken Rice – roast pieces of chicken on top of rice cooked with fat and chicken stock, served with spicy sauce and cucumber.
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2x Won Ton Mee in Kuala Lumpur
The first lot was from Lucky Garden, the second from SS2. Savoury noodles with roast pork and bok choy.
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Malaysian Popiah
Malaysian Popiah: a really thin spring roll skin with delicious ingredients wrapped inside eaten as a wrap. Made of turnip, bangkuang, beansprouts, tofu, shredded omlette, fried carrot, shallots, garlic, peanuts, lettuce leaf and a spicy and sweet sauce.
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Claypot Chicken Rice – Heun Kee, Pudu, Kuala Lumpur
Located just under a flyover in Pudu, Kuala Lumpur, Heun Kee serve up a mean Claypot Chicken Rice cooked over hot coals. Pictured here – the kitchen and the final dish served with soy sauce and sliced green and red …
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Goma Black Sesame Ice Cream – Japanese dessert
A recent favourite… black sesame ice cream is somewhere between sweet and savoury, a rather strange flavour that somehow works for ice cream.
The first at the Japanese restaurant at KLGCC (with bonus: mango), the other from MOF (apparently …
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We love gelato – Singapore
The only dessert cafe in Fifth Avenue, Singapore. Delightfully indulgent afternoon of chats and sweets.
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Char Kuey Teow
Char kuey teow – friend flat noodles with prawns, chinese sausage, beansprouts and spring onions at a hawker centre somewhere in PJ.
Also see my home made version, part of my Malaysian hawker stall food fest: …
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A Crab Feast
A once-a-year treat that inevitably became a ‘must-eat’ in Singapore, the black pepper crab is undoubtedly one of the best ways to enjoy crab.
And an introduction to a disgustingly tasty other way to cook crab – baked with cheese. …
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A selection of Kerala Food
Our first sunset (one of many) in Kovalam, Kerala.
A selection of breakfast food – a spicy deep fried donut -vada, puri, dal, puttu and some sweet melon.
Our Boxing Day lunch at the Grand Hotel, Cochin. Karimeen …
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Chee Cheong Fun – Indonesian Style
Chee Cheung Fun are really thin rice noodles folded on each other to make a kind of thick ‘kuey teow’ flat noodle. This is how I’ve been brought up to eat it – Indonesian style for breakfast. Mix toasted sesame …
