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Garlic Shoots with King Oyster Mushroom
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Garlic Shoots with King Oyster Mushroom

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Aromatic garlic shoots are often used in Chinese cuisine. If you love garlic, you will love the mild flavour of garlic shoots.

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20 MinutesEasy
Stir Fried Bean Sprouts
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Stir Fried Bean Sprouts

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Stir fried bean sprouts is a very simple homely dish that every Chinese grandparent would have made at some stage as part of a meal.

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20 MinutesEasy
Eggplant in Spicy Sweet Soy Sauce
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Eggplant in Spicy Sweet Soy Sauce

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This easy recipe is a Chindonesian mash up where creamy eggplant meets the slight crunch of the spicy sweet soy sauce.

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15 MinutesEasy
Karela Sabzi Fried Bittergourd
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Karela Sabzi (Fried Bittergourd)

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In this easy two-ingredient recipe, the sweet onion offsets the bitterness of the fried bittergourd and the amchur adds a tangy lift.

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15 MinutesEasy
Vegan Kaya
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Vegan Kaya Spread

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Kaya is a delicious coconut spread that many of us grew up with in Singapore and Malaysia. This vegan kaya recipe is easy and more healthy.

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20 MinutesEasy
No-Fail Easy Lazy Vegan Pancakes
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No-Fail Easy Lazy Vegan Pancakes

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These lazy vegan pancakes are perfect for brunch, quick to whip up, and so easy that your kids could do most of the work.

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20 MinutesEasy
Authentic Sichuan Sauteed Green Beans
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Sichuan Sauteed Green Beans (干煸四季豆)

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This authentic Sichuan sauteed green beans captures the creamy flavour of fresh beans while adding highlights of chilli and Sichuan pepper.

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20 MinutesEasy
Sigua Patola Luffa with Glass Noodles (粉丝蒸丝瓜)
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Sigua with Glass Noodles (粉丝蒸丝瓜)

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Enjoy the delicate flavour of sigua in this simple steamed dish with glass noodles that brings out its naturally sweet aroma and juices.

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15 MinutesEasy
Garlic Scallops with Glass Noodles
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Scallops with Glass Noodles (素鲜贝粉丝)

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Super easy and tasty, this vegan scallops dish is all about the wonderful flavour of garlic and the sweetness of the king oyster mushroom.

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15 MinutesEasy
Choy Sum with Mushroom
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Choy Sum with Mushroom (香菇炒菜心)

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A staple dish in Chinese households, choy sum with garlic and mushroom is quick and simple to prepare and an iron-rich addition to your meal.

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15 MinutesEasy
Lemongrass Not-Pork Skewers Moo Takrai
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Lemongrass Not-Pork Skewers

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An easy and good-looking dish with the freshness of kaffir lime and lemongrass. Made with OmniMeat. Warning: These are addictive!

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20 MinutesEasy
Homemade Ribena Roselle Syrup Sorrel
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Roselle Syrup Homemade Ribena

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Make a healthier version of Ribena syrup with roselle, sugar, and water. Roselle is high in vitamin C and aids digestion. Great for kids!

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30 MinutesEasy
Steamed Black Bean 'Ribs' 豉汁蒸素肉
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Steamed Black Bean ‘Ribs’ (豉汁蒸素肉)

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This yumcha favourite vegan steamed black bean ‘ribs’ is easy to make. Simply marinate the vegan protein in the tasty sauce and steam!

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20 MinutesEasy
Long Bean Omelette 长豆角焖饼
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2-Ingredient Long Bean Omelette

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This simple long bean chickpea omelette is chock full of protein and looks nice enough to (possibly) con your kids into eating their beans.

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15 MinutesEasy
Enoki Mushroom in Tofu Skin 金针菇豆皮卷
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Enoki in Tofu Skin (金针菇豆皮卷)

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Enoki mushrooms wrapped in tofu skin and cooked in a light sauce. A lovely and fancy-looking dish that can be created in no time at all.

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20 MinutesEasy
Gising-Gising Spicy Beans with Mince
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Gising-Gising (Spicy Long Beans)

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Gising-Gising means “wake up, wake up”, because the chillies will slap you in the face! This sweet and spicy dish is absolutely addictive. 

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25 MinutesEasy
Lo Pak Go 萝卜糕 Cantonese Radish Cake
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Lo Pak Go (萝卜糕) Cantonese Radish Cake

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This creamy and savoury lo pak go (Cantonese radish cake) is a favourite at Hong Kong tea cafes and a delicious tea time snack!

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75 MinutesMedium
Tub Tim Grob Thai Red Rubies Dessert
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Tub Tim Grob (Thai Red Rubies Dessert)

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Tub tim grob is a tasty Thai dessert where crunchy water chestnut bits coated in chewy tapioca starch are served in sweetened coconut milk.

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35 MinutesEasy
Vegan Pandan Chicken Gai Hor Bai Toey Jay
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Vegan Pandan Chicken (Gai Hor Bai Toey)

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Infused with the fragrance of pandan leaves, this vegan pandan chicken is delicious and also looks fantastic! Perfect for parties!

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40 MinutesEasy
Kuih Sago Pandan Tapioca Pearls Cake
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Kuih Sago Pandan (Tapioca Pearl Cakes)

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This kuih sago is a delicately fragrant nyonya snack / dessert that uses only a few ingredients like tapioca pearls and pandan.

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50 MinutesEasy
Vegan Noodle-Wrapped Prawn 面线虾
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Noodle-Wrapped Prawns (面线虾)

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Vegan noodle-wrapped prawns is a two-ingredient entrée that is great for entertaining. Crunchy, tasty, and looks stunning!

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25 MinutesEasy
Vegan Bacon Fried Cabbage
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Vegan Bacon Fried Cabbage – Quick & Easy

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Sweet, savoury, and smoky, this vegan bacon fried cabbage is a super quick dish to whip up and always a winner at the family table.

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15 MinutesEasy
Black Bean Beef with Bittergourd 素苦瓜炒牛肉
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Black Bean Seitan Beef with Bittergourd

1077 Views

This black bean beef with bittergourd with homemade seitan is a savoury and sweet umami-packed dish that will make you love bittergourd!

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20 MinutesEasy
Sago Pudding Tapioca Pearl Dessert
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Sago Pudding | Easy Tapioca Pearl Dessert

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This sago pudding is simple to prepare and combines accessible ingredients to create a sweet and smoky tropical dessert.

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35 MinutesEasy
Soft Tofu in Tomato Sauce 茄汁日本豆腐
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Soft Tofu in Tomato Sauce | 茄汁日本豆腐

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This is a simple and delicious kid-friendly vegan recipe. The soft tofu is fried until crispy then drenched in a tasty tomato sauce.

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30 MinutesMedium
Mujadara Lentils, Rice and Caramelized Onions
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Mujadara | Middle Eastern Lentils and Rice

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Mujadara is a traditional Middle Eastern dish. It is a protein-rich, comforting, and affordable dish made of lentils, rice, and onions.

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50 MinutesEasy
Cezerye | Turkish Carrot Confectionery Dessert
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Cezerye | Turkish Carrot Confectionery Dessert

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Cezerye is a naturally vegan and gluten-free Turkish dessert made carrots, nuts, sugar, and desiccated coconut. It is nutritious and sweet!

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60 MinutesEasy
Dongbei Coriander Salad 东北老虎菜
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Dongbei Coriander Salad (东北老虎菜)

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This Dongbei coriander salad is spicy, pungent, and fragrant. It is a very appetizing side dish that takes only ten minutes to prepare.

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10 MinutesEasy
Cucumber Sprite Pickle 网红雪碧泡黄瓜
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Cucumber Sprite Pickle (网红雪碧泡黄瓜)

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This incredibly quick and easy cucumber Sprite pickle is sweet and sour and absolutely refreshing. Perfect for parties or a fridge staple.

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Easy
Basil Mint Calamansi Granita | Easy Refreshing Dessert
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Basil Mint Calamansi Granita | Easy Dessert

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This simple granita recipe uses fresh mint, basil, and calamansi juice to create an easy but very refreshing icy dessert for hot summer days.

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15 MinutesEasy
Vegan Fried Chicken Cutlet From Mushrooms
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Vegan Fried Chicken Cutlet From Mushrooms

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Make a vegan fried chicken cutlet from oyster mushrooms wrapped in rice paper! This yummy cutlet is battered, crumbed, then deep-fried.

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40 MinutesMedium
Steamed Soft Tofu with Mince | 肉末蒸嫩豆腐
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Steamed Soft Tofu with Mince | 肉末蒸嫩豆腐

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This comforting steamed soft tofu is covered in minced TVP and mushroom and drenched with a simple sauce for an easy and yummy weekday dish.

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30 MinutesEasy
Chinese Smashed Cucumber Salad | 拍黄瓜
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Smashed Cucumber Salad | 拍黄瓜

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This crunchy and spicy smashed cucumber salad is super easy and so delicious. It is a great failure-free side dish for a Chinese meal.

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Easy
Tofu Kratiem Prik Thai Garlic Pepper Sauce
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Tofu Kratiem Prik Thai | Thai Garlic Pepper

6575 Views

Tofu is stir-fried in a lip-smacking kratiem prik Thai sauce that combines the flavours of garlic, black pepper, and coriander roots.

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30 MinutesEasy
Steamed Garlic Enoki 蒜蓉金针菇
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Steamed Garlic Enoki | 蒜蓉金针菇

1799 Views

This steamed garlic enoki is a super easy and tasty 15-minute dish that is great for kids too. My favourite zero-failure way to eat enoki!

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15 MinutesEasy
Tofu with Beansprouts | Taukwa Char Taugeh
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Tofu with Beansprouts | Taukwa with Taugeh

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Tofu with beansprouts is a simple and down-to-earth dish that reminds me of my grandmother. Very easy to prepare and it tastes like home.

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20 MinutesEasy
Pak Boong Fai Daeng | Stir-Fried Water Spinach Kang Kong
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Pak Boong Fai Daeng | Stir-Fried Morning Glory

1990 Views

Pak boong fai daeng is a Thai stir-fried morning glory or kangkong dish that is cheap, tasty, and very easy to make. Perfect for busy days!

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15 MinutesEasy
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I am a Singaporean-Chinese who has lived in Australia and Thailand and am currently enjoying my 10th year on an island in the Philippines. This site is all about authentic Asian vegan food that my family loves to eat.

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口水鸡 | 𝑺𝒊𝒄𝒉𝒖𝒂𝒏 𝒔𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒂 𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒌’𝒖𝒏

I’m back in the Philippines! Towards of the end of my stay in Singapore I was pretty busy, so there are a bunch of dishes that I haven’t posted yet. I’ll get through them in the next two weeks!

Saliva chicken is a Sichuan dish that mixes all the best flavours of the region’s cuisine. This dish really earns it name because just imagining the taste makes me salivate. 

The protein—in this case seitan chicken or king oyster mushrooms—is shredded and cooked in a seasoned chick’un broth and left to cool.

Garlic, ginger, spring onion, Sichuan peppercorns, spicy chillies, coriander, red chilli oil, Sichuan pepper oil, sesame oil, soy sauce, sugar, fragrant vinegar, cooking wine, and a spoonful of the broth make up the drizzle sauce.

The chick’un is arranged on the plate and drenched in the sauce. Then topped with toasted sesame seeds, toasted crushed peanuts, spring onions, and coriander leaves.

Sichuan cuisine is not all about how spicy you can make food. The balance of flavours is very important. This dish should be numbing 麻, spicy 辣, umami 鲜, fragrant 香, with a touch of sweetness 😘👌
𝑺𝒕𝒊𝒓-𝑭𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒅 𝑩𝒍𝒂 𝑺𝒕𝒊𝒓-𝑭𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒅 𝑩𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝑷𝒆𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒓 𝑹𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒏

Work has been really unpredictable lately. Sometimes I have an entire day free in the middle of the week to go for a 5-hour walk while other days I get a whole bunch of assignments dumped on my lap(top).

This was from one of those days when I only had about 15 minutes to cook lunch. Luckily, I had the last packet of @kangkangnoodles fresh ramen. Fry your vegetables, tip the noodles straight out of the packet, toss everything for about two minutes, and it's done. IKR? It's wild.

I don't know if people in Singapore are like totally jaded about having great produce but I am still super excited about having baby choysum and cherry tomatoes. Cherry tomatoes + black pepper sauce = a match made in heaven. If you have curry leaves, throw a bunch of them in there for a good measure. 

Damn. Good. Noods.

#kangkangnoodles #kangkangramen
𝒀𝒖𝒎 𝑴𝒂𝒎𝒂 | 𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒊 𝑰𝒏𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝑵𝒐𝒐𝒅𝒍𝒆 𝑺𝒂𝒍𝒂𝒅

It’s the weekend and it’s hot, which means that it is time for yum Mama or Thai instant noodle salad! This is a refreshing taste bomb that you will keep shoving into your mouth even after you are full.

To be accurate, this is actually yum Waiwai because we can’t get vegan Mama here. But it’s kind of like how Singaporeans call all diapers ‘Pampers’. Mama was the OG and the name has stuck.

Dressing:
3 tbsp calamansi lime juice
1 tbsp soy sauce
0.5 tbsp vegan fish sauce
1 tbsp raw or palm sugar
3 lemongrass (white part only)
4 shallots (finely sliced)
2 bird’s eye chillies
3 coriander stems and roots
Contents of Waiwai seasoning packs

Ingredients: 
2 packets of Waiwai veg noodles
Omnipork
King oyster mushroom ‘squid’
Vegan prawns or crab stick
Cherry tomatoes
Coriander leaves

Method:

1. Juice the limes and let the sliced shallots soak in the juice to remove the raw spicy taste.
2. Pound the chillies and coriander stems and roots until mushy and add to the juice.
3. Mix all the dressing ingredients together.
4. Boil a pot of water and cook the crab stick and mushroom squid. Pan-fry the Omnipork. Set aside for later.
5. Cook the noodles to al dente then rinse on cold water so that they are sproingy.
6. Toss with dressing, cooked ingredients, cherry tomatoes, and coriander leaves.

Enjoy!!
Have you ever taken photos of something, completel Have you ever taken photos of something, completely forget to post it, then weeks later you’re like, “the heck was that?” 🤷🏻‍♀️

Meet my nashi pear soup with herbs and stuff and things. Being rather unhelpful, I took one lonely photo, so I can only tell you the ingredients that I can see.

There was dried tangerine peels, dried lily bulb petals, 川贝 (chuanbei), 半夏 (banxia), and a white stick-like thing called 北沙参 (beishashen).

Boiled with juicy and refreshing nashi pear, this chinese medicine (TCM) tonic is meant to soothe the respiratory tract and relieve dry throat and coughs.

The weather isn’t great at the moment. Take care of yourselves and eat well!
𝑷𝒂𝒅 𝑪𝒉𝒂 𝑴𝒂𝒌𝒖𝒂 | 𝑺𝒑𝒊𝒄𝒚 𝑬𝒈𝒈𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝑺𝒕𝒊𝒓-𝑭𝒓𝒚

Move over green curry, this is now my new favourite way to eat round eggplants!

Since I have two round eggplant plants in the PH, I get a couple to put in a curry every now and again and nothing more. So I was super excited to see tons in the Thai supermarket. Finally, I get to cook something with them as the star!

Finger root, young green peppercorns, kaffir limes leaves, coriander, Thai basil, and chilli? Clearly, I was meant to make pad cha.

Pad cha is an aromatic and spicy Thai stir-fry that involves throwing ingredients into a sizzling hot wok. The ingredients in the wok sing/scream “cha cha” through the entire process.

I’ve made pad cha het (mushrooms) tons of times but this is the first time I did it with round eggplants. The eggplants stayed firm on the outside but gooey in the middle and they took on the sauce very well.

OMG it was so good. I don’t have a recipe for this yet but you can follow the pad cha het one below. The only difference is you need to add a little stock as the eggplants don’t ooze as much juice as mushrooms.

Pad Cha Het | Spicy Mushroom Stir-fry: https://bit.ly/3znrrII
𝑩𝒊𝒃𝒊𝒎 𝑮𝒖𝒌𝒔𝒖 | 𝑺𝒑𝒊𝒄𝒚 𝑲𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒊𝒙𝒆𝒅 𝑵𝒐𝒐𝒅𝒍𝒆𝒔

Remember how I was talking about the awesomeness of having fresh noodles so readily available in Singapore? Well, @kangkangnoodles is a fresh ramen that only takes 30 seconds (!!!) to cook for a perfectly chewy and springy bite. It's so convenient it's almost rude.

Singapore weather has been really weird lately. Big thundery showers but still really hot and muggy. I've been in the mood for something spicy but not warm, so I decided to make bibim guksu, which is rather like the noodle version of bibim bap. 

Bibim guksu is different from bibim bap in that it is often served cold instead of warm. The mixing sauce for bibim guksu also sometimes features apple juice or sprite for an extra zing. I used a sparkling apple juice for the best of both worlds.

This dish is so simple. All you have to do is julienne everything, blanch the stuff you don't want to eat raw, mix up the sauce, cook the noods, then mix everything together violently. This recipe is actually for three servings, but I won't lie, my husband and I ate it all.

Ingredients:
1 packet of fresh ramen

Toppings:
Shiitake mushrooms, lettuce, cucumber, carrots, choy sum, bean sprouts, kimchi, seaweed, toasted sesame seeds.

Sauce:
3 tbsp gochujang 
1 tbsp gochugaru
1 tbsp light soya sauce
2 tbsp white rice vinegar
2 tbsp sparkling apple juice
0.5 tbsp sesame oil
0.5 tbsp sugar (optional)

Method:

1. Mix the sauce in a bowl.

2. Boil a pot of water and blanch the toppings that cannot be eaten raw. After cooking, rinse in cold water to cool.

3. Cook the fresh ramen in boiling water for 30 seconds. Remove and rinse in cold water, the colder the better!

4. Separate into three bundles and arrange with all the toppings on the plate.

5. Top with toasted sesame seeds and 3 tbsp of sauce.

6. Mix vigorously and enjoy!

#kangkangnoodles #kangkangramen
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