Lunch Recipes

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • Thai-style Steamed Fish

    Thai-style Steamed Fish

    When going out for dinner with family and friends, steamed fish is a typical dish we’d order at Chinese Muslim or a la Thai Malay restaurants. The problem is, fish and seafood prices keep going up, and a plate of steamed fish like sea bass can easily set you back MYR75 a pop. Ouch.…

  • Curry Noodles

    Curry Noodles

    During the Covid pandemic, I made curry mee for the first time. Eating out was simply not an option, and sometimes we really wanted something different than the usual rice and side dishes. A few years would pass before I started making it again. Che Nom dropped her new Ipoh-style curry noodles recipe video…

  • Chicken Paprik

    Chicken Paprik

    It’s been over a year since Kak’mbang retired. She used to prepare all kinds of dishes to accompany our rice for every meal, and all of them were simple yet really good. Those were the good ‘ol days, and I truly miss her cooking. Now, the task of preparing our daily meals is passed…

  • Bayou Chicken Pasta

    Bayou Chicken Pasta

    Over the weekend I had a group of 10 come over for pot roast, and I was worried we wouldn’t have enough starch as a “filler” dish, so at the very last minute I decided to throw in another pasta dish to the menu.  I decided on this simple but incredibly delicious pasta, modified from the…

  • Chicken Miso Ramen

    Chicken Miso Ramen

    Rudy loved Japanese food. He missed sushi the most, as consuming raw/ undercooked foods was not advised when undergoing his treatments. As much as we could we still tried to have our Japanese food fix, and ramen was one of the things we wanted to have more of.