Day 2 - Coconut Milk, Coconut Cream, Thick and Thin Coconut Milk, Creamed Coconut and Kerisik I’ve covered this topic to some extent in a previous blog post so check that out for the recipe for making your own coconut milk. In this Periscope broadcast, I reveal - what Malaysian recipes mean by thick and thin coconut » Read More
Soya Sauces (30 Days 30 Asian Ingredients Series Day 1)
February 4, 2016 by
I thought I might start with an ingredient that almost everyone is familiar with, but which is nonetheless somewhat confusing. There are 3 broad types of soya (aka soy) sauce - sweet soya sauce salty soya sauce - for this exercise I’ll call it “regular soya sauce” thick soya sauce aka caramel » Read More
30 Days, 30 Asian Ingredients – Periscope Series
January 26, 2016 by
I guess I’d always known that there’s something of a learning curve involved as far as the topic of Asian ingredients is concerned. This became starkly evident to me when I was working on my Truly Malaysian Street Food at Home cookbook, when my American editor struggled to keep up with half the stuff in my recipes. “What is thick caramel sauce » Read More
How does a Thermomix Handle Asian Ingredients?
January 6, 2016 by
I remember as a kid back in my Templer Flat days in Seremban, one of my neighbours once brought a gigantic stone mill up to their 11th floor unit and set it up on their balcony. It was so heavy and our block of welfare units was so flimsy I wondered their balcony was going to one day break off under the weight of the mill. I think they used it » Read More
Malaysian Cooking – What Ingredients Do You Need?
December 6, 2014 by
Print PDF Find out in my 9-minute video below ;) Just to put some context into this, I spent minutes trawling through my pantry for ingredients I had on hand, I didn't spend months writing a thesis, interviewing experts, drawing up definitive lists or stocking up for this video. In other words, if I missed your favourite ingredient, don't be » Read More
10 Must-Have Malaysian Pantry Ingredients
August 24, 2011 by
Print PDF 'Must have' in the sense that they're what I would personally get if I were limited to only 10 items - again, depending on your own (Malaysian) cultural upbringing, you might have a vastly different list to mine. Will elaborate on these another time along with suitable recipes. As mentioned in a previous post, when hunting down » Read More