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  • Kampung Fried Rice (Village-style Fried Rice)

    Kampung Fried Rice (Village-style Fried Rice)

    I used to work in an office building which had a cafeteria on the 3rd floor. Before my days of intermittent fasting, my colleagues and I would quickly stop by the 3rd floor to get our daily breakfast to go and eat together in the office pantry. One of my favorite breakfast items is…

  • Soto Ayam (Indonesian Chicken Soup)

    Soto Ayam (Indonesian Chicken Soup)

    It’s been quite a while since I had a good bowl of soto ayam. It’s the end of the year and the weather has been quite wet and gloomy. Having a steaming hot bowl of herbal chicken soup and all the fixings would surely hit the spot. The few I ordered recently from different…

  • Chinese Fried Rice

    Chinese Fried Rice

    When I was a lot younger and was visiting my big brother in KL, he used to take us to the hawker food center in Uptown. There were plenty of stalls to choose from, but I still wasn’t so adventurous with food at the time. So, I usually ended up ordering Chinese fried rice…

  • Cantonese Kway Teow

    Cantonese Kway Teow

    My mom really likes Madam Kwan’s Cantonese kway teow. She tends to order Cantonese kway teow anyway whenever we eat out and if it’s on the menu, but highly likely she’ll say other places can’t compare to the one at Madam Kwan’s. I agree with her opinion.

  • Simple Omelet: Plain, Dumb but Yummy

    Simple Omelet: Plain, Dumb but Yummy

    Sometimes you just need something quick and simple to go with your rice. Perhaps it’s the end of the week, and the only thing left in the fridge are a few eggs. A la Thai Malay dishes also tend to be excellent when paired with an egg dish. For these times, we can make…

  • Three-flavored Barramundi

    Three-flavored Barramundi

    As I’ve mentioned before, I am a fan of a la Thai Malay cooking. However, I never imagined I would able to make all these wonderful dishes myself, until I discovered Che Nom’s YouTube channel. Today, so many of Che Nom’s recipes feature regularly on my daily menu, one of them being this tri-flavored…

  • Thanksgiving Dinner Menu Ideas

    Thanksgiving Dinner Menu Ideas

    When I was studying in the States, I often remained on campus during Thanksgiving break. My residential college, Ezra Stiles, always had a budget for treating those who stayed back with Thanksgiving dinner. I really appreciated the thought, and it gave me an opportunity to experience Thanksgiving and a typical Thanksgiving dinner menu.

  • Tepung Kapur

    Tepung Kapur

    Here in KL, I personally find it difficult to find decent Terengganu food close enough to my house. Food from Kelantan, our neighboring state, is aplenty, but not those from my own home state. Until one day, my mom told me about Mok Teh Nasi Dagang, a shop my brother frequently orders from, .…

  • Ramadan Food Ideas

    Ramadan Food Ideas

    Ramadan in Malaysia is always synonymous with Ramadan food bazaars. Everyone would flock to their neigborhood bazaar in the late afternoons to grab all sorts of food, appetizers, desserts, rice dishes, just name it. Malaysia being a multi-ethnic country, even non-Muslims look forward to Ramadan food bazaars for the variety of options offered.

  • Chicken Congee: One-pot Recipe

    Chicken Congee: One-pot Recipe

    Kak’mbang used to make the best Chinese-style chicken congee. Typically, congee is simply plain rice porridge which we pile on with various toppings, but her version was a very flavorful one-pot meal full of meat and veggies. Mummy used to have this every day for breakfast, and Kak’mbang provided an endless supply of it.…