 Spicy, sweet, sour, salty are the main tastes we sense from food. They can be compromised or contrasted one another. They are like music notes which can settle the plate down right romantic or beat the excitement out of the pot. But what if there were a dish that highlights them all, it must
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 Most home in Asia have their versions of chicken fried rice, it is such an easy and simple dish that spells comfort and versatile at the same time. Chicken fried rice is, of course, the magic recipe we regularly need for utilizing our leftover rice. It transforms the plain, bland, cold, white rice into
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 I love it when I cook something and my house smells like my favourite Chinese restaurant… especially that one where my husband and I had our first dinner together. A small Chinese restaurant in Bangkok tucked the few tables together in one cozy corner. The chef was from Hong Kong and his cooking was noisy,
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 A few months ago, my husband asked me to post summer recipes featuring mango as the main ingredients in our blog but I was so caught up with other thing else, when I actually wanted to cook them, the beautiful mango was already vanished from the markets. When I saw some rare wild mangoes in
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 Yaseen has a day off so he would be responsible for his own lunch today. I am still fasting during the daylight hours which means lunch is all about him. Within my supervision, I let him select the ingredients and the dish to be made. When pulled out thin rice noodle, a bowl, and a
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 You can call me “easy”, but I fall in love with street food really easily. Whenever we drove through narrow streets with food carts surrounded the side walks, I usually suggested we stop for a bite. Along with quick food and deep fried stuffs, there are quite a lot of sassy and refreshing fast-drinks out
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 “Never cook boy choy more than a minute”, my mother used to say, fresh vegetables are always good as they are. So we love to toss the green leaves in the smoking hot wok, and let the leaves rustle fiery, greasy, iron surface. And it’s all to be quick, only a minute, let the
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 Something we definitely missed out in Kashid beach during monsoon was the abundance steamy seafood so fresh and cooked as soon as it was out of fishermen’s nets. During rainy season, there was restriction in fishing and fishermen wouldn’t venture far from the shores as they used to. We hoped for some fresh fish over
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 Years ago, when corn milk was introduced in Thailand and we the consumers were told that it was not only healthy but supposedly to make us look good. The lady who sold me the bottles of cold corn milk freshly made every morning swore it would make my skin glow, my hair shine, and
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 If the internet could transmit smell, today my blog would have been the smelliest one in the whole world. And when I said “smell”, it could mean “good smell” or “bad smell”, depending on where you stand on “fermented shrimp paste”. Nasi Goreng is Indonesian fried rice with vibrant spicy flavour. There was a time
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