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COCONUT MILK & GULA MELAKA AGAR | AGAR GULA MERAH & SANTAN
This is a pretty and super easy Indonesian dessert, rich with the flavours of coconut milk and palm sugar, but still light and refreshing. Again, as with so many Asian desserts, texture comes into play, this time with the use of agar agar, which is a setting agent made from seaweed. It is widely available…
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Pig Trotters in Tomato Sauce
What happened? Two babies happened. We are so happy for them, they really light up our days (and night!) They are God sent gift and we couldn’t be more grateful. Moving on, I have received so many emails from blogger friends and fellow Indonesian Chinese cuisine lovers and I must admit that I have not…
Indonesian Salad: Gado Gado Recipe
Indonesian version of salad is the one happily drenched with peanut sauce. The sauce should be thick, crunchy, sweet and spicy. There are basically more than ten type of salad using peanut sauce, so even if they all look and sound the same, they taste differently, according to some picky eaters. This is the famous…
Homemade Kaya Recipe: Coconut Jam
I am a kaya snob. We have been spoiled by our grandmothers, aunties and mothers that we only enjoy homemade kaya. Every family has their own version of homemade kaya, some thick, some runny, some yellow, some brown caramel-ish, some pandan green-ish. It is strange that kaya is only popular on this side of island.…
Powdered Sugar Doughnut
Donat Kampung. Our childhood memories do include powdered sugar doughnuts bought from street vendor. We consumed them vicariously not caring about calorie and sugar content and what it would do to our waistlines. Those were good days. As more and more modern eateries scattered around town, these are quite hard to come by. Do not…
Asian Chicken Burger
You know when everything with spring onion and garlic is considered “Asian”? I made my version of Asian inspired burger, with chopped spring onion, garlic, ground chicken and Japanese mayo and spicy bottled sambal. It is easy, quick and satisfying. It is quick when you don’t make the bun and mince the chicken by hand.…
Welcome to my blog!
I am one of those people who love buying cookbooks and read them leisurely just to admire the photos. I had never spent more than 15 minutes in the kitchen up to three years ago, for cooking up noodles. We grew up Read More…