Hello! I’m terribly, terribly, terribly sorry for not posting the past 2 months. If you’ve been following my other blog, you’ll know that I’ve just had a baby.
Of course, I’ve also had my Mum cooking dinner almost every night thus I didn’t need to dig up recipes or slave in the kitchen for home-cooked food [...]

Coming back to Malaysia, I find that I need to prepare breakfast for the boy to eat at home or to go to the preschool.
In China, the preschool serves this daily menu ALL prepared in their kitchen:

Breakfast - man tou, bao, porridge serve d with powdered milk, almond milk, peanut milk or soybean milk;
Lunch [...]

I remember the boiled pearl barley (and sugarcane juice) from childhood days growing up in my Chinese grandmother’s house. Even my Mum would boil it for us sometimes especially when the weather is hot because pearl barley has cooling properties.
Did you know that Koreans drink a barley tea regularly in place of water? If you [...]

This is a backdated post of my attempt at frying Penang “char koay teow” (stir-fried rice noodles with prawns). As I was craving for Malaysian hawker food during the earlier stage of my pregnancy, I decided, “If I can’t buy it, then I’ll cook it!”

I adapted the recipe from “Malaysian Hawker Favourites” (by Periplus Mini [...]