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Cereal Butter Prawns (II)
Cereal butter prawns is a popular "zi char" dish in Singapore and Malaysia. Prawns are deep-fried, then tossed in a sa…
Cereal butter prawns is a popular "zi char" dish in Singapore and Malaysia. Prawns are deep-fried, then tossed in a sa…
Har cheong gai is Singapore's take on fried chicken. It's not just crisp outside and juicy inside. It also has a fragran…
Sambal ikan bilis is a Malay dish in Singapore. Dried anchovies, aka ikan bilis in Malay, are deep-fried till crisp and brown, t…
Chinese spring rolls are thin wheat flour wraps filled with stir-fried vegetables. Jicama is the most common vegetable used. Oth…
I have a friend who knows a thing or two about food. He doesn't cook but he's a discerning eater. If he says a restauran…
Ngoh hiang are deep-fried meat rolls. They have the sweetness of prawns and pork, the crunch of water chestnuts, and the fragran…
The good news is, anchovy stocks have doubled because their predators – the type without legs – have declined sharply in numbe…
Fried wontons are different from wontons in soup, apart from the fact that they're fried. The filling for boiled wontons sho…
The paper in 纸包鸡 serves a purpose (other than containing the chicken). It gives the chicken the best of two worlds: steaming and…
There're many types of fermented prawn paste. I could smell this one once the bottle was open. OMG, this is potent stuff! I…
Thai stuffed chicken wings (kai sawt sai tawt) are deep-fried boneless chicken wing mid-joints filled with minced prawns. You lo…
Melt some butter and, when it's bubbling nicely, grab a few sprigs of curry leaves and rip off the leaves (with style, of …
Whenever I see pandan leaf chicken, I'd remember the lunch I had with my Australian boss in a Thai restaurant in Melbourne. …
Coffee pork ribs is a Singaporean dish popularized by celebrity chef Sam Leong. It's meaty, savory coffee you can chew. Pork…
Sesame balls (ç…Žå †) are a Chinese snack food that are crisp, slightly chewy, and very fragrant. Balls of dough, covered with sesam…
"Go for it! It's free!" the HR manager said. The word 'free' reverberated through my head. If I were a ca…