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Duck Asado Pandesal
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I had some duck breast meat that has been sitting in my freezer for ages. I initially wanted to use them for making duck andouille sausages, but let’s just say, it has been quite a while since I made that plan. Since I was certain I won’t be putting in time and effort to…
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Pandan Coconut Pau
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This has been on my back burner for a while now. Perhaps I’ve been a little apprehensive about making the coconut filling, because I was worried about not getting the right sugar-to-coconut ratio. Regardless, recently I finally got off my butt and made these pandan coconut steamed buns, or pandan coconut pau (bao).
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Sun Dried Tomato Focaccia
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I had a jar of leftover sun-dried tomatoes in the fridge, and needed an excuse to use them up. A pasta dish, or some form of bread were both possible ideas, but recently I felt motivated to revisit making focaccia. After a few failures and misses, I’ve been a little circumspect with no-knead bread…
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Rotiboy / PappaRoti Copycat Coffee Buns
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I tried making Rotiboy. I’m in really big trouble. I’ve been thinking about making this fluffy, addictive bun for years now. The closure of the iconic Rotiboy KLCC branch in 2024 sparked some nostalgia in me, and nudged me to finally get the project going.
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Cheesy Garlic Bread Rolls
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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,…
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Chicken Curry Pau
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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…
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Cheesy Sausage Rolls
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I was craving Auntie Anne’s jumbo sausage rolls the other day, so I felt inspired to make cheesy sausage rolls. The Thought Process I wanted the bread rolls to be soft and buttery, so I used my roti paung recipe as a base. Here I purposely made them a bit more “junky”, using cheapo…
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Roti Paung Pandan Kelapa (Gardenia Copycat)
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Some years back, Gardenia released a new fancy bread: Roti Pandan Kelapa. I’ve tried imitating this bread by modifying King Arthur Baking’s Japanese milk bread recipe, and while I was quite happy with the results, it still wasn’t as fluffy and perfect as I would have liked. Having fairly recently perfected my roti paung…
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Butterscotch Bread (Gardenia Copycat)
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I remember when Gardenia’s Butterscotch bread first came out. People were literally waiting for the bread guy to stock the shelves (I think it was every Wednesday) before snapping them all up like piranhas, and they were gone in a flash. At that point in time I was working in Menara TM, and since…
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Pizzaman (Japanese Steamed Pizza Buns): Halal Version
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I’ve always loved Japan and so many things about it, the language, the culture, and of course their food. Japanese konbini or convenience store food is practically a whole unique segment of Japanese cuisine, and one of their most fascinating food items is pizzaman (a contraction of the words ‘pizza’ and ‘manju’), literally a…