• My Suhoor Selection 2025

    My Suhoor Selection 2025

    Before we knew it, we’re already in day 11 of Ramadan. What have you been having for suhoor?

  • Jalapeno and Cheddar Pierogi

    Jalapeno and Cheddar Pierogi

    My husband Faizal mentioned Costco used to sell frozen pierogi – specifically jalapeno cheddar pierogi – which he recalled being quite yummy. Took us a while to finally identify the brand, @peterandpatspierogies. They don’t seem to be sold anywhere in the States nowadays, so the next best thing was to try and make it myself.…

  • Spaghetti with Hot Dogs

    Spaghetti with Hot Dogs

    It was mid-week, and we were running low on groceries in the fridge. Our grocery run wasn’t until a few more days, but I still needed to figure out the day’s lunch prep. Rummaging through my freezer dan veggie drawers, I found a small pack of beef sausages, carrots, and a couple of tomatoes…

  • Cheesy Garlic Bread Rolls

    Cheesy Garlic Bread Rolls

    I usually prep food for my husband’s lunches on days he’s at the office, which usually also include a breakfast item and afternoon snack. More often than not, the breakfast/snack item would be some type of bread. During my recent trip to the States, when making butterscotch bread for him to take to work,…

  • Chicken Curry Pau

    Chicken Curry Pau

    As we all know, bao or baozi are steamed buns originating from China. Perhaps through cultural transfer and assimilation over centuries via trade and migration, in Malaysia we have a local variant of steamed buns, called pau. Malaysian pau are quite distinctly local, with either sweet or savory fillings such as coconut jam, red…

  • 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…