Holly, Jolly Christmas Bread

It's that time of the year again to celebrate the joy of Christmas!  It's hard not to get into the mood when it's so heavily commercialized.  But i am not one who will complain; besides the true meaning of christmas beautiful decorations, christmas carols, holiday season and all makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside :) So, it goes without...

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Learning To Cook Like A Nyonya ~ Ayam Pongteh

This is one of my family favorites.  We never get tired of it.  Ayam Pongteh is a very popular signature Nyonya dish that you will find in Nyonya restaurants,  if it's not there it's not genuinely authentic.   For those who are not familiar, Nyonya is the term for female descendants of early Chinese migrants to Malaysia who...

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Come On Let's Do a Jelly Mooncake Twist!

Mooncake aka Mid Autumn Festival is around the corner again.  It falls on the 15th day of the 8th month according to the lunar calendar and that translates to Sept 27 this year.  Commercially, mooncakes show their faces somewhere towards the end of the 6th month which gives one ample time to eat and eat and eat...if one has the money...

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Globetrotting with Son-Taiwan 2015

Greetings my friends!  It has really been quite awhile; time to remove some dust from this blog :) In fact, I can even name this my anniversary post since it was more than 1 year since the last one! Not exactly a food related post but jottings of a recent trip.  It was summer school break for Boy and coincidentally my work contract has...

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