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Ingredient & Marketing Guides

Lotus Seed Paste 16x9

Homemade Lotus Seed Paste (莲蓉馅料)

Essential Chinese Sauces

Essential Chinese Sauces and Condiments in The Burning Kitchen’s Pantry

6 Tips on How to Choose A Ripe Pineapple: Pineapples are one of the tricky fruits to choose, as you can't always tell from the colour alone whether or not the pineapple is ripe. To choose a good pineapple, you have to make use your different senses.

6 Tips on How to Choose a Ripe Pineapple

Local Fish Guide - Yellowtail Fusilier

Every Foodie’s MUST-HAVE Guide to 10 Common Local Fish

Braised Chinese Shitake Mushroom Recipe

How to Choose Chinese Dried Mushrooms

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The 10 Things You MUST Know About Choosing the Freshest Fish

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How to Choose Bitter Gourd

How to choose Brocolli

How to choose broccoli

Kitchen & Knife Skills

Dragon Playground Bubur Chacha 16x9

Homemade Bubur Cha Cha (Inspired by the Dragon Playground)

Soft and Fluffy Pork Floss Buns (Tangzhong/Autolyse Method)

Bubur Cha Cha - This popular Nyonya dessert boasts a delicious combination of steamed sweet potato and taro swimming in freshly-made coconut milk and topped with vibrantly-coloured translucent tapioca jelly cubes. Simply divine!

Fresh Coconut Cream (Santan)/Coconut Milk (自制椰子奶油和奶)

Hard Boiled Egg

How to Make the Perfect Hard Boiled Egg

How to make Perfectly Seared Scallops with Broccoli

Homemade Pineapple Jam (Pineapple Tart Filling): Nothing beats homemade pineapple jam where you can take ultimate control to get your preferred texture, sweetness level and spiced flavour. This recipe teaches you how to make your own pineapple jam from scratch using 5 ingredients: fresh ripened honey pineapples, sugar, cinnamon, cloves and star anise, and it is super duper delicious and very satisfying to make!

How to Make Spiced Pineapple Jam for Pineapple Tarts

How to Tie a Roast: Tying a roast helps to retain a nice round shape during roasting, and also allows it to cook more evenly.

Roast Beef Tenderloin with Grilled Vegetables (Part 1): How to Tie a Roast Beef

These Watermelon Christmas Trees are so easy to do and will add loads of festive cheer to the upcoming joyous Christmas season when we celebrate God's love and gift of new life to people all over the world!

How to Cut Watermelon Christmas Trees

30-minute Teriyaki Chicken Don: Instead of heading to a Japanese restaurant, why not make this easy Teriyaki chicken rice bowl at home? The homemade Teriyaki sauce uses just 3 ingredients and gives a beautiful glossy caramelised finish to the chicken thighs. Serve with a bowl of Japanese rice for a complete meal!

How to Make a Teriyaki Chicken Rice Bowl with Homemade Teriyaki

Pork Meatball Congee With Scallops: Don't you simply love the thick, creamy consistency of the congee served at top-notch Cantonese restaurants? Today I will teach you how to make this sweet and flavourful pork meatball congee at home, without the hours of simmering / slow cooking typically needed to achieve such a texture.

Pork Meatball Congee With Scallops: How to get the perfect congee texture

Crispy Pork Belly is probably everyone's favourite Cantonese roast meats! The skin is so crispy golden you can hear the crunch as you bite into it, and the meat is so moist and succulent. Its so yummy, I guarantee you won't be stopping at just one!

How to Make Ultra Crispy Pork Belly (Siu Yuk)

Bak Kut Teh (Pork Rib Tea Soup): This clear peppery soup with fall-off-the-bone-tender pork ribs goes best with a bowl of steaming white jasmine rice, fried dough fritters (you tiao) and chilli soy sauce dipping sauce. So yummy!

How to Make Bak Kut Teh with Homemade Spice Mix

The Burning Kitchen | How to Clean Squid

10 Simple Steps for Cleaning Squid Properly

Thai Smoked Lemongrass Fish

Thai-inspired Smoked Lemongrass Fish

How to Slice Gourds Into Strips

8 Simple Steps for Slicing Gourds (And Other Tubular Vegetables) Into Strips

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How to Fry Crispy Golden Shallots without Burning them

Steamed Garlic Butter Prawns

How to Make Steamed Garlic Prawns Without Them Drying Out

Ultra Crispy Fried Pomfret on lettuce on white plate with chilli sauce at the side

How to Make Ultra Crispy Fried Pomfret

Crispy Roast Chicken with Drip-Tray Vegetables

Crispy Roast Chicken with Drip-Tray Vegetables

Do you know the secret to restaurant-style, perfectly-steamed fish? Follow this simple guide to nail this Chinese home-cooking staple every single time!

Perfecting the Technique for Preparing Chinese Restaurant Steamed Whole Fish

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Hi! We are Bee Leng & Melissa, the mother-daughter team behind The Burning Kitchen. Our mission is simple: to make authentic Chinese cooking accessible to all, anytime, anywhere. We believe in teaching you the secret sauce behind each recipe. Read more!

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