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Quick and Easy (30-Minute) Recipes

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

Tagged With: Watermelon

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

Tagged With: Chicken, Mirin, Rice, Rice Vinegar, Shoyu

steamed tapioca cake coated in grated coconut on white plate with accompanying chinese tea cup and pot

Steamed Tapioca Cake (蒸木薯糕 / Kueh Ubi Kayu)

Tagged With: Coconut, Coconut Milk, Pandan Leaf, Tapioca

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Easy One-Pot Recipes

Singapore style hainanese chicken rice with accompanying sauces and chicken soup

Hainanese Chicken Rice

Tagged With: Chicken, Chilli, Garlic, Pandan Leaf, Rice

Slow-cooked Mexican Beef Stew Recipe: Chunky beef tendon slow-cooked in a hearty tomato-based gravy for 4 hours until the meat is so tender and succulent that it almost melts in your mouth.

Home-style Mexican Rice with Slow-Cooked Beef Stew

Tagged With: Bay Leaf, Beef, Carrot, Leek, Onion, Rice, Tomato

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

Tagged With: Egg, Pork, Rice, Scallop

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Light and Healthy Recipes

How NOT to Cook Sago - 3 Common Mistakes People Make: Does your sago turn out more gluey or starchy that you like it to be? You may be making some of these mistakes!

How NOT to Cook Sago – 3 Common Mistakes People Make

Tagged With: Sago

Sweet Corn Pork Rib Soup Recipe: Sweet corn pork rib soups belongs to the 煲汤 (Po Tong in Cantonese) class of soups, which are more elaborate and take more than 2.5 hours to simmer. Kids love this soup for its natural sweetness and beautiful colours!

Sweet Corn Pork Rib Soup

Tagged With: Corn, Pork

Black chicken soup in white bowl with chopped chilli with soy sauce in the background

Double Boiled Black Chicken Herbal Soup Recipe

Tagged With: Chicken, Red Dates, Wolfberry

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Hawker-Style Recipes

Mini Chicken Satay (Inspired by the Singapore Flyer)

Homemade Chicken Satay (Inspired by The Singapore Flyer)

Tagged With: grill, meat, satay

Dragon Playground Bubur Chacha 16x9

Homemade Bubur Cha Cha (Inspired by the Dragon Playground)

Tagged With: Coconut, dessert, tapioca jelly

Shrimp Paste Chicken 9x16

Shrimp Paste Chicken (Har Cheong Gai/虾酱鸡)

Tagged With: Chicken, Shrimp Paste

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Make-Ahead Recipes

Homemade Pineapple Tarts (凤梨挞 / 黄梨挞): These highly addictive pineapple tarts are made from scratch using homemade chunky spiced pineapple jam, which sit atop a tart pastry that is buttery and crumbly. One piece will not be enough!

Highly Addictive Homemade Pineapple Tarts (凤梨挞 / 黄梨挞)

Tagged With: Butter, Flour, Pineapple

Kueh Lapis on wooden cutting board

Steamed Kueh Lapis (Jiu Ceng Gao / 九层糕) and Panasonic Cubie Oven Review

Tagged With: Coconut Milk, Pandan Leaf, Rice Flour, Tapioca Flour

Pig's Trotters in Black Sweet Vinegar

Pig’s Trotter Vinegar (猪脚醋)

Tagged With: pig trotters, Sweet black vinegar

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Cantonese Recipes

Steamed Rice Cake (白糖糕 Bái Táng Gāo or Pak Tong Gou in Cantonese) is a traditional sweet Chinese steamed rice cake made with rice flour and white sugar.

Steamed Rice Cake (白糖糕 Bái Táng Gāo)

Tagged With: Pandan Leaf, Rice Flour, Yeast

Old Cucumber Soup in porcelain bowl with chopsticks at the side

Old Cucumber Soup Recipe(老黄瓜汤)

Tagged With: Chinese Ham, Dried Cuttlefish, Old Cucumber, Red Dates, Waxed Duck Gizzard

Black fungus chicken with wine on teal plate

Chicken in Chinese Wine with Black Fungus and Golden Needle

Tagged With: Black Fungus, Chicken, Chinese Mushroom, Golden Needle, Wolfberry

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Meat and Poultry Recipes

Assam Braised Pork Belly: Tender melt-in-your mouth braised pork belly in a tart and slightly sweet assam (tamarind) sauce. Only needs 15 minutes active time and 3 key ingredients (plus common condiments you already have in your kitchen). An unfussy and simple homestyle dish but tastes oh so good!

Assam Braised Pork Belly

Tagged With: Assam, Pork

Dim Sum Steamed Cabbage Roll with Minced Pork: If you love Dim Sum and are a bit of a health nut, you will love these adorable mini cabbage rolls masquerading as Dim Sum, giving a new interpretation to a nostalgic childhood food.

Steamed Cabbage Roll with Minced Meat

Tagged With: Black Fungus, Cabbage, Carrot, Pork

Sticky Chinese BBQ Pork (Char Siew): This is Mum's Char Siew recipe with no MSG and no food colouring. Look how juicy and succulent the Char Siew is! My absolute favourite are the little sticky glazed bits with a slightly charred, smoky flavour. Simply heavenly...

Grilled Char Siew (Sticky Chinese Roast Pork)

Tagged With: Maltose, Pork

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Fish & Seafood

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

How to Make Ultra Crispy Fried Pomfret

Tagged With: Fish

Oyster_Omelette_Recipe

Fried Oyster Omelette (Or Luak/ Or Chien) Recipe

Tagged With: Egg, Seafood

Portrait view of Wat Tan Hor Fun served with chilli and spring onions

Wat Tan Hor Fun (Silky Egg Hor Fun with Prawns)

Tagged With: Egg, Noodles, Prawn

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Cantonese Recipes

Plate of beef brisket noodles with a piece of beef tendon being held up.

Braised Beef Brisket Noodles (牛腩面/Ngau Lam Mein)

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Whole chopped soy sauce chicken ready to serve, with chilli sauce, spring onions and noodles

Soya Sauce Chicken (Si Yau Kai / 豉油鸡)

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Portrait photo of Cantonese Cabbage and Mushroom Rice on a blue antique plate

Cantonese Cabbage Rice

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Desserts Recipes

Thai Red Ruby in Fresh Coconut Milk (Tub Tim Grob): If you love Thai desserts like Mango Sticky Rice, you will probably love this refreshing and and vibrantly coloured dessert with its ruby-hued crunchy water chestnuts coated in tapioca jelly, swimming in a soup of freshly squeezed coconut milk. We like to call this the Thai version of bubur cha cha! 

Thai Red Ruby in Fresh Coconut Milk (Tub Tim Grob)

Tagged With: Coconut Milk, Pandan Leaf, Tapioca Flour, Water Chestnut

Snowskin Mooncake

Snowskin Mooncake (冰皮月饼)

Tagged With: mooncake, snow skin

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Easy No-Bake Strawberry Trifle Recipe

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