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Leftover rice from the day before? Instead of throwing it away, we can turn it into a delicious dessert. Affectionately known as Apam Nasi, this is Asia’s version of steamed bread. Best eaten warm. Ingredients: 1 cup of cold, cooked […]

One of my favorite sambal is sambal sotong kering (dried cuttlefish). It’s quite hard to buy one that is delicious so I usually will cook it at home. To make this sambal, you have to soak the dried cuttlefish overnight […]

If you are running out of idea what to cook for dinner, maybe you can try this sambal ayam halia. I call it sambal halia because the dried chili (cili kering) is blended with onion and ginger. It’s really simple […]

One of my favourite savoury fried snacks is this vadai. It is really easy to make as well. You just need to soak the gram dal for a few hours. Then once the dal is soaked ( you can see […]

A Sarawakian friend came over and gave me 2 packets of pes laksa Sarawak from 2 different brands. A few days later, I decided to try making one using pes laksa Haji Manan. Since it was the first time I […]

I suddenly had the craving to eat sambal sotong kering a few days ago and decided to make nasi lemak to go with it. Plus I have some instant paste for goreng berempah given by a friend which I haven’t […]

Last month I bought a bunch of white beech mushroom (Bunapi Shimeji) after checking out the cover of the Korean instant ramen. It doesn’t taste really good with the noodle but it was tasty when I put them in tauhu […]

I have been making few rounds of soto ayam at home lately but so far this is the version which I think is almost complete. For this particular soto ayam, I fried rice vermicelli (soo hoon) in the hot oil […]