Copycat Recipes

  • Honey Butter Biscuits (Texas Chicken Copycat)

    Honey Butter Biscuits (Texas Chicken Copycat)

    At one point in 2022, I went into a biscuit-making craze. I made various biscuit recipes, revisiting my Cheesy Garlic Biscuits, as well as trying out Joshua Weissman’s take on Red Lobster’s Cheddar Bay Biscuits (But Better). Wondering what else I could try making, I thought about Texas Chicken’s honey butter biscuits. Why didn’t…

  • Dynamite Seasoning (Flavor God Copycat Recipe)

    Dynamite Seasoning (Flavor God Copycat Recipe)

    Faizal loves a particular spice mix from Flavor God called Dynamite Seasoning. He usually sprinkles generous amounts of it onto chicken wings, then air-fries them. Unfortunately, it seems like this product has been discontinued and no longer available anywhere. So for quite a while, he left the last precious few teaspoons of it untouched,…

  • Roti Paung Pandan Kelapa

    Roti Paung Pandan Kelapa

    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…

  • Butterscotch Bread

    Butterscotch Bread

    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…

  • Sausage McMuffins (Chicken): McDonald’s Copycat

    Sausage McMuffins (Chicken): McDonald’s Copycat

    The McDonald’s breakfast menu is one of my guilty pleasures. I particularly like their Sausage McMuffins (even better with egg). But nowadays McDonald’s breakfast ends earlier at 10:30am, and I always end up missing the window. I also noticed their sausage patties are insanely salty of late. It could just be me getting older,…

  • Swedish Meatballs

    Swedish Meatballs

    Been ages since we’ve been to IKEA. Window shopping or filling our carts with cool stuff we don’t need is fun, sure, but usually the highlight of our IKEA trips is usually lunch at their cafeteria. We’d order the usual staples like the fried chicken wings, grilled salmon, and of course the meatballs.